Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Advanced Clinical Nursing Care

Advanced Clinical Nursing Care
5
9821
4
First semester
op
Main language of instruction: Catalan

Other languages of instruction: Spanish,

Teaching staff


Professors:

    • Dra. Encarna Rodriguez
    • Dr. Jordi Castillo
    • MsU. Silvia Pilar
    • MsU. Daniel Arbonés
    • MsU. Joan Bañuelos
    • MsU. Ramón Pedrosa
         

Hours of care:
Students must request an appointment by email.

 
 

 

Introduction

In the event that the health authorities announce a new period of confinement due to the evolution of the health crisis caused by COVID-19, the teaching staff will promptly communicate how this may effect the teaching methodologies and activities as well as the assessment.


Modules:

  • Critical patient Management
  • Emergency Management 

The course of Advanced Clinical Nursing will provide the tools for managing nursing care throughout the disease process, from detection to the possible complications of severe and / or advanced unusual illnesses. It will also provide the students with the advanced medical-surgical techniques.

Pre-course requirements

Reviewing anatomical, physiological and pathophysiological knowledge of the different systems of the human body from childhood to adulthood is required. Likewise, student must go over pharmacology, dosage and administration routes.

A good command of the implementation of the Nursing Care Process (SAP) is required

Objectives

  1. To make a comprehensive nursing assessment of the patient with a complex, severe and / or rare disease.
  2. Managing nursing care in patients with such diseases.
  3. To detect the possible complications of the disease or the disease process and to know how to manage information and action in this context.
  4. To prioritize nursing care in complex and / or severe and / or infrequent pathological processes.
  5. To work the patient's safety with the clinical simulation resource 

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.
  • 13. G - Know the principles of health-care funding and use resources appropriately.
  • 14. G - Establish mechanisms for evaluation, taking into account scientific, technical and quality standards.
  • 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.
  • 17. E - Perform nursing care based on comprehensive health care, which involves multidisciplinary cooperation, integration of processes and continuity of care.
  • 19. B - Ability to make decisions based on critical thinking and reflective practice.
  • 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.
  • 22. G - Use and management of information and research
  • 23. B - Ability to analyze and synthesize.
  • 24. G - Ability to work autonomously.
  • 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.
  • 2. E - Plan and provide nursing care for individuals or groups, taking health outcomes into account and their impact, through guidelines for clinical practice and care, which describe the four processes by which a health problem is diagnosed or treated.
  • 5. G - Design systems of care programed for people or groups, assessing their impact and making necessary modifications.
  • 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

  • To develop cognitive, psychomotor and relational skills, that will enable them to provide adequate nursing cures, promoting autonomy, healthy habits, disease prevention and welfare of the patient, family and community in critical, complex or rare situations.
  • Use the Individualized Plan Of Care with patients in a critical, complex and / or less prevalent situation.
  • Participate in solving complex cases.
  • Applying critical-reflective thinking in the analysis and evaluation of care plans in complex patients.
  • Knowing the main diagnostic tests (imaging and laboratory) applied especially in care work with complex and / or rare pathologies.

Syllabus

 

Critical patient and safety patient

Emergency management:

  • Hospital selection
  • Workshop out-of-hospital emergencies






Teaching and learning activities

In person



- Master class

- Clinical simulation

- Casual resolution

 

IN ORDER TO ACCESS CLINICAL SIMULATION, IT IS INDIRECT TO SIGN A DOCUMENT OF CONFIDENTIALITY, WITHOUT SUCH SIGNATURE, SIMULATION CAN NOT BE REALIZED AND THEREFORE, THE SUBJECT MAY NOT BE APPROVED.

Evaluation systems and criteria

In person



IT IS MANDATORY TO ASSIST AND PARTICIPATE IN SIMULATION TO ADOPT THE SUBJECT

 

The Evaluation

  • Simulation (60%)
  • Questionnaire and exercises in emergencies and emergencies (40%)
It is a requirement to have all the parts passed (minimum 5) to pass the subject

 

 

In the 2nd Announcement

  • Carrying out a clinical simulation

The note of the second call will have a maximum grade of 5 final


In the 3rd and 4th Announcements the same type of Assessment will be maintained as in the 1st and 2nd Announcements respectively and in no case will the partial notes of any type of Assessment of a previous course be kept

Evaluation period

E: exam date | R: revision date | 1: first session | 2: second session:
  • E1 20/11/2020 10:00h
  • R1 10/12/2020 10:00h
  • E2 21/06/2021 12:00h
  • R2 02/07/2021 10:00h