Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Advanced Practicum III
Other languages of instruction: Catalan
Teaching staff
Students can contact their academic tutor through email, also the holder of the subject, lwennberg@uic.es, and the person responsible for the management of the practicum, mvera@uic.es, whenever they need to.
You can also contact the practicum coordinator, by appointment (if not urgent), via email. pfuster@uic.es
Introduction
UIC offers its students the opportunity to have a practice placement seven months into the first scholar year. Students are placed in prestigious hospitals and primary health centers, where they will learn from professionals certified for teaching.
Each student is supervised by one of the professionals of the center during their placement (clinical mentor) . In addition, there will be a continuous monitoring of the process by a professor of the University through visits to the training center and a weekly tutoring in the University. This will be carried out in order to ensure learning and student satisfaction during their practical experience. In addition, there will be continuous monitoring of the process by a professor of the University through visits to the training center and a weekly tutoring in the clinical environment. This will be carried out in order to ensure learning and student satisfaction during their practical experience (academic mentor).
Third year students have 14 weeks work placement. These 17 weeks will be divided into the different areas which form Hospital Care (Internal Medicine, Surgery, Orthopedics, Geriatrics, Oncology, Maternity, neonatal, ORs, intensive care, etc.) and Primary Health Care (Nursing Consultation for chronic patients, pediatric nursing, home visits, terminal patient care, education activities and health promotion, health monitoring and occupational health, drug addiction monitoring and care, etc.), AIDIR units etc. This placements can change depending on the curricular needs of students, situation of health care centres etc..
Pre-course requirements
- Updated Vaccination (according to the rules laid out in the Degree Guide)
- Have the appropriate uniform.
- Have passed the subject Fundamentals of Care.
- Have passed the subject Basic Simulation Laboratory.
- Not to be on leave for health reasons , accident or any other contingency related to health.
- We recommend having completed the previous practicums
Objectives
During the practice placement, the students must assimilate the following objectives:
- Integrate theoretical and practical knowledge.
- Acquire those skills and attitudes needed in order to provide care to the different users in different circumstances.
- Develop emotional, relationship and communication skills when treating the patient, his/her family and his/her community.
- Provide care assistance to a person in different states of health that they might experience through the Nursing Care Process (P.A.E)
- Discover the knowledge and skills that an expert uses while developing the planned strategies of the different protocols.
- Learn and put into practice the different roles of nursing. And learn about the role of the different professionals within the multidisciplinary team.
- Find a place in the structure and operation of the unit and placement center.
- Manage resources responsibly.
Specific objectives of Advanced Practicum
- At the end of the work placement the student must be able to demonstrate ability and skill within the nursing unit. The student will be able to:
- Acquire skills in specific techniques related to the operation of technology, materials and medical equipment of each unit.
- Recognize and and be able to put into practice efficiently the pathologies Care Plan taught during the 3rd year.
- Acquire basic relational skills to work in a Primary Care Unit (EAP, Equipo de Atención Primaria) .
- Distinguish and participate in the various activities carried out by the community nurse (scheduled consultations, on demand, home visits, care, injections, vaccinations, extractions, continuing education, interdisciplinary meetings).
- Get to know and correctly use the documentation and records such as HCAP (first care clinical records), MEAP (first care form), PAI (Individualized Plan of Care), ILT (temporary leave form), prescriptions, software, etc. used in the different centers of practice.
- Learn the operation of the basic tools of health education.
- Understand the stages of the community oriented towards the primary care process.
- Make assessments of adult, pediatric and geriatric users, according to a nursing model. It is necessary to be able to plan care according to nursing standards and evaluate the effect of nursing intervention on the health status of the user-patient
- Understand ethical and legal principles of delegating to other healthcare team members and be able to delegate activities, under supervision, to nursing assistants.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- 11. E - Establish effective communication with patients, families, social groups and partners and promote health education.
- 12. B - Know and observe the ethical code of conduct of Spanish nursing, understanding the ethical implications of health in a changing global context.
- 15. B - Work with the team of professionals as a basic unit in which uni or multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary professionals and other staff of health care are organized.
- 1. G - Ability to provide technical and professional health care appropriate to the health needs of the people they treat, with full technical and scientific autonomy, according to current and available scientific knowledge and to the quality standards and safety requirements set forth in the applicable legal standards and code of ethics.
- 20. B - Multidisciplinary teamwork
- 22. G - Use and management of information and research
- 23. B - Ability to analyze and synthesize.
- 24. G - Ability to work autonomously.
- 26. G - Ability to generate knowledge from practice.
- 27. G - Ability to adapt to new situations.
- 28. E - Leadership in nursing care and in nursing teams to improve quality care for people, participation in health policy and professional development.
- 4. B - Understand the interactive behavior of the person according to their gender, group or community, within their social and multicultural context.
- 7. B - Understand people without prejudice, considering their physical, psychological and social aspects, as autonomous and independent individuals, ensuring respect for their opinions, beliefs and values, ensuring their right to privacy through confidentiality and professional secrecy.
- 9. E - Promote healthy lifestyles, self-care, as well as the maintenance of therapeutic and preventive behaviors.
Learning outcomes of the subject
After completing the advanced Practicum I, students will be able to:
- Discuss the results of nursing research and its impact on professional practice. They will also be able to use these results under the supervision of their clinical tutor.
- Integrate specific nursing, medical and psychosocial knowledge into professional practice and show ability in performing complex procedures, both in hospitals and primary care centers as well as to identify the knowledge generated from the reflection about action.
- Conduct nursing assessments on adult, pediatric or geriatric users, according to a nursing model. Plan care according to nursing standards and evaluate the effects of nursing intervention on the health status of the user-patient
- Execute themselves to specific learning objectives for their professional modification and to establish objectives of professional development.
- Facilitate patients' involvement in any of their own procedures. Promote patient self-care using health education as a tool to support the patient and family, positively reinforcing the healthy behaviour observed in patients.
- Critical patient's care
- Understand ethical and legal principles of delegating to other healthcare team members and be able to delegate activities, under supervision, to nursing assistants.
Syllabus
- Knowledge of the context of care.
- Communication with the patient and the healthcare team.
- Patient assessment.
- Guided participation in caring for the children, adults and the healthy / sick elderly in Primary Care.
- Guided participation in caring for hospitalized children, adults and the elderly in exacerbation or chronicity situation.
- Critical patient
Teaching and learning activities
In person
- Clinical tutoring: it focuses on the accompaniment of the student, by the nurse assigned to the internship center, and on the follow-up of the learning process that the student is involved in.
- Academic tutoring: it is a learning and evaluation activity developed by a professor of the University, individually and / or in small groups, in the context where the students carry out the practices. It is based on Reflective Learning and is carried out every week, with an average dedication per student of 30-45 minutes per session. According to the recommendations of the Department of Health in force at all times, these tutorials could become online. This information will be specified at the beginning of each period by the ownership and /or coordination of practices.
- Report of practices: At the end of the practicum, the student must deliver a work that will conform to the objectives and contents of the period and that will be included in the dossier of practices of the asignatura (moodle)
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
- Clinical mentoring: 25%
- Academic tutoring (20%)
- Practicum Report 50%
- Self-assessment (5%)
The documents and evaluation criteria, which specify the expected learning outcomes for the student and the regulations that regulate it, are available in the practicum dossier and / or within the moodle of the subject.
The deadlines of delivery of the evaluative documents, as well as the way to deliver them is also available in the moodle of the asignatura.
To overcome the subject it is necessary to approve the evaluation of the clinical tutor, academic tutor and memory of the practium, in case of suspending any section this will be recovered in second call.
Honors not be awarded in 2nd call.
Students who fail a practicum in 1st call because they have not passed the portfolio, if they are in 4th course, they will not be able to process the title until the closure of records in 2nd call.
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- Dossier de Laboratorio de Simulación