Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - Barcelona

Caregiving for Adults II

• code 09086
• course 3
• term Semester 2
• type OB
• credits 11

Module: Module Nursing Care from Birth to Death

Matter: Nursing Care for Adults

Main language of instruction: Catalan

Other languages of instruction: Spanish

Head instructor

Dr. Alberto GALLART - agallart@uic.es

Other instructors

Dra. Carmen QUIÑOA - cquinoa@uic.es
Dra. María Ángeles DE JUAN - mdejuan@uic.es
MsU Anna Maria ALIBERCH - aaliberch@uic.es
Dra. María Cibeles MORENO - cibelesmoreno@uic.es
MsU María Mercè IRUELA - mmiruela@uic.es
Dda. Maria Araceli BLANCAS - ablancas@uic.es

Office hours

Students can contact teachers preferably from 9.50 to 10.10 (by appointment via e-mail), or after school.

CARE OF ADULT II

Module: Module III. Care since the beginning of life to death

Language of instruction: Catalan, Castilian, English.

Schedule:
LD 10:10 h to 14:00 h
DM 10:10 h to 14:00 h
DC 10:10 h to 12:00 h            (except week 6 and 7 which is 10 to 14h)
DJ 10:10 h to 12:00 h             (except week 8 which is 10-14h)

DV 10:10 h to 12:00 h

The subject of Adult Care II aims to provide the tools to plan and carry out nursing activities aimed at prevention and health promotion and at care of nephrological, endocrinal, traumatological, dermatological, ophthalmological, otolaryngological and neurological problems as well as of problems with the articular muscles. In addition, in this subject, the student will be trained to provide comprehensive healthcare to the patient with a chronic or acute condition in any of the aforementioned systems stated.

Not required, although to successfully take the subject, it is considered important to review/go over the knowledge of anatomy and physiopathology of the systems aforesaid. 

1. Students will develop cognitive and psychomotor abilities 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.
2. Students will integrate specific health and disease knowledge based on the holistic concept of the individual.
3. Know nursing care associated with the most common health disorders of the following systems according to the following methodology knowing the nursing care plan of each situation: Renal, Internal, Metabolism and Nutrition, Rheumatism and Orthopedic surgery, Dermatological, Ophthalmological, Neurological and Emergency.

• 20. B - Multidisciplinary teamwork
• 25. E - Knowledge of the field of study
• 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.
• 16. G - Know the health information systems.
• 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.
• 24. G - Ability to work autonomously.
• 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.
• 3. E - Know and apply the theoretical and methodological foundations and principals of nursing.
• 4. B - Understand the interactive behavior of the person according to their gender, group or community, within their social and multicultural context.
• 5. G - Design systems of care programed for people or groups, assessing their impact and making necessary modifications.
• 6. E - Base nursing care on scientific evidence and available resources.
• 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.
• 8. B - Promote and respect the right of participation, information, autonomy and informed consent in decision-making of people treated, according to the way they live their health - disease process..

Once the subject "Adult Care I" is successfully completed, students will be able to:

• Appreciate the importance of families and community groups in health care.
• Develop a care plan for chronic patients and their families by identifying and minimizing complications. Recognize the goals and priority actions when developing preventive actions.
• Have the ability to work within the environment of the patient and her or his family. Know how to provide excellent home care taking into account the needs of the person and her or his family.
• Develop family or community intervention programmes.
• Know the primary and secondary prevention measures for adults.
• Run an intervention programme.
• Know specific techniques for diagnosis and therapeutic nursing care of diseases related to nephrology, endocrine, articular muscles, traumatology, dermatology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology and neurology.
• Use the Nursing Care Process (PAE) with patients with specific pathologies related to the aforesaid.
• Remember the ethiopathogeny, epidemiology, pathophysiology and symptomatology. Knowing the potential complications.
• Know the main diagnostic tests (imaging and laboratory) applied especially in renal, neurological and urgent situations patients.

Unit 1. IMMUNIZATION IN ADULTS

Unit 1.1. Immunizations in Adults.

Unit 2. NURSING CARE TO PEOPLE WITH ENDOCRINE DISORDERS

Unit 2.1.  Prevention, health promotion and monitoring from Primary Health Care the person suffering an endocrine pathology.

Unit 2.2. Nursing care for people with an acute process of endocrine pathology.

Unit 3. NURSING CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH RENAL DISORDERS

Unit 3.1. Nursing care for people suffering acute processes of renal pathology.

Unit 3.2. Prevention, health promotion and monitoring from Primary Health Care, the person who presents a renal pathology.

Unit 4. NURSING CARE FOR THE NEUROLOGICALLY IMPAIRED

Unit 4.1. Attention to people with acute neurological disease.

Unit 4.2. Prevention, health promotion and monitoring from Primary Health Care, the person who has a neurological disease.

Unit 5. NURSING CARE FOR PEOPLE WHITH DERMATOLOGICAL DISORDERS

Unit 5.1. Nursing care to people with an acute dermatological pathology.

Unit 5.2. Prevention, health promotion and monitoring from Primary Health Care, the person who presents a dermatological pathology

Unit 6. NURSING CARE FOR THE PEOPLE WITH ARTICULAR MUSCLE ALTERATIONS

Unit 6.1. Nursing care for people with acute articular muscle pathologies.

Unit 6.2. Prevention, health promotion and monitoring from Primary Health Care, the person who has a muscle articular pathology.

Unit 7. NURSING CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH OPHTHALMIC DISORDERS

Unit 7.1. Nursing care for people with an acute ophthalmic pathology.

Unit 7.2. Prevention, health promotion and monitoring from Primary Health Care, the person with an ophthalmologic pathology

Unit 8. NURSING CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH ALTERATIONS OTOLARYNGOLOGICAL DISORDERS

Unit 8.1.Nursing care to people with an acute otorlaryngological pathology.

Unit 8.2.Prevention, health promotion and monitoring from Primary Health Care, the person with an otolarynogological pathology.

Unit 9. NURSING CARE IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS

Unit 9.1. Nursing care to people in emergency situations

Unit 10. CASES IN PRIMARY CARE

Unit 11. PALLIATIVE CARE NURSING

Unit 11.1. Palliative Care: An Introduction - basic palliative care concepts

Unit 11.2. Palliative care in adults

The relationship between the ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) and the workload in hours of learning based on different methodologies to be used in Adult Care 2, can be seen in the attached table. The course consists of theoretical sessions (lectures), practical sessions, guided and independent virtual learning.

In this subject, every ECTS is equivalent to 10 classroom teaching hours. This teaching load can be done in the Master Class where the professor will present the main ideas and will encourage participation and discussion. During the lectures the professor will go into depth on the main units and concepts of the detailed subjects in the syllabus. Regarding the practical lessons, Cases Methodology will be used from a community and clinic perspective through cooperative and individual work promoting work among peers and where the student will be accompanied during the learning process, being guided and advised at all times.

The rest of the 15 to the 25 hours of1 ECTS are distributed as follows:

• 7 hours of individual work. Of those seven, the professor will monitor virtually for 3h online through ICT (short questionnaires with questions regarding the pathophysiology of the given unit through Moodel) and during the other 4h the student will work on her or his own.
• The remaining 8h not listed in the tables belong to the student guided and independent workload.  

Thanks to the independent work the students will learn how to solve problems on their own with help from the given course materials and the information received in the lectures. There will be hours spent on searching for information, on the development of papers and projects and hours of individual study, all of them focused on getting to achieve the needed knowledge.

11 ECTS credits (11x25H = 275h).

1. Work with the professor held in the classroom: 110h (during the school year of 2015_16 there are approximately 7.6 weeks and in these weeks 104 hours are completed, the remaining 6h can be done by taking the course "The Elderly Care" in order to complete 110h).

- Master Classes: 65

- Other classroom methodologies (cases, discussions, cooperative work, etc.): 42

2. Independent work led by a Professor online: 33h (3h per ECTS): 11h Non virtual: study cases; 22h virtual (preparatory readings for projects or classroom work, etc.)

3. Individual work: (12h per ECTS): 132h. Working on the full understanding of notes, exercises and case studies done in class and these hours are also oriented to look into the non mandatory bibliography, summarize notes and study them.

Methods of teaching / learning in Combined Modality

The subject "Adults Care II" will develop a combined method of teaching / learning with the intent to promote, protect and evaluate a continuous and participatory learning of students with the use of hours of active work during classes and also with the use of ICT in virtual classes.

These lessons will be divided into:

• 47% of master classes (lectures)
• 53% of active student lessons: 23% will be in the classroom
• Case Method 21%
• Exercises 1%
• Class discussion after critical reading 8% (synthesis and learning among peers)
• 23% supervised individual work at home
• 8% Non virtual: Cases
• 15% Virtual (ICT).
• Case 5%
• Questionnaires 7%
• Clinical cases and literature reading 2%.
• Audiovisual 1%

The reason for this mixed approach is to combine the students' presentation and explanation of all units by the professor, with the opportunity to go into depth in the same subject thanks to methodologies that help them to internalize and take in the content.

In order to develop this method it is necessary to point out that there will be some challenges faced by both the teacher and the student since both will have to incorporate into their work schedule, not only the classroom hours, but also, both of them will have to save some time for virtual working hours. Of course, the virtual work will not have an exact time to be done, but we do recommend that the student and the professor schedule a specific time (which may be modified according to unforeseen events that may arise). Also, they will always have to present their work within a maximum period of one week, as it will be seen in the schedule.

To develop this subject we have institutional support through technical support with the Moodle platform, teaching and tutoring classes as well as physical spaces and adequate classrooms.

The subject will be evaluated during the semester by continuous assessment and a final exam.

Continual assessments take into account the following: Participation in the class discussion groups based on the critical reading of the course literature and the case developments; questionnaires; case studies and exercises through ICT; and a mid-term exam.

Relationship between evaluation approach, skills and learning outcomes

This method of assessment will include all the educational methodologies on not only the individual work through the individual tests (mid-term and final exams), but continual work, team work, information synthesis during the class discussions, literature reading and exercises will also be taken into account in the final mark.

Relative value of each evaluation method in the overall evaluation

The subject will be evaluated during the semester by continuous assessment systems that will be equivalent to 60% of the mark and a final exam with a value of 40% (Or 30% depending on the first midterm). The continuous evaluation consists of:

• Non virtual independent analysis of all clinical cases performed. One of them will be chosen for the evaluation: 20%
• Virtual independent work: Questionnaires, exercises and critical reading: 20%
• Mid-term exam: 20% (Or 30% depending on first midterms)

General evaluation criteria

• In order to pass the mid-term (so that these contents do not appear on the final exam) students must pass with at least a 5.
• It is mandatory to obtain at least 4.5 points in the final exam in order to take average of all the marks.
• In any evaluation the values will be distributed in proportion to the units.
• The mid-term and final exam will be multiple choice questions and / or open questions.

Assessment system

Continuous assessment will be conducted and the marks will be constantly being posted in moodle so that students can track their progress. The answers of the questionnaires will be released so that students can learn and self-assess themselves at the same time.

Second evaluation

The subject assessment will be based on a final exam worth 60% and since the mid-term exam will not be taken into account, continuous assessment will be worth 40%.If students fail to get the 40% of the continuous assessment they can:

• Carry out the virtual self study again: Questionnaires, exercises and critical reading, which will be worth 20%, in any case the mark obtained will never be more than a 5.
• The rest of the continuous assessment mark cannot be retaken since it is done in Teamwork

The final mark of the course is obtained through taking the average of all the marks in the subject.

First Class Honours will not be awarded in first resit.

Second and third resits (and extraordinary resits)

The subject will be evaluated with the same system as in first and first resit. Other year's marks will not have any value in the subsequent resits.

ASSESSMENT PERIOD

Final exam (examination): May 29, from 12.00h to 14.00h

Final Exam Revision (examination): June 10, from 10:00h to 11:00h

Final exam (first resit): 27 June, from 10:00h to 12:00h.

Final Exam Review (first resit): from 15:00h to 16:00h.
 

RULES OF THE COURSE

Attendance and participation

Even though attendance is not compulsory, it is important to emphasize that classroom practice is extremely helpful for the students, specially the exercises, so missing theses lessons will make more difficult for the students to pass the course.

Exams and assessment activities

There will be a specific assessment period each year (see annual schedule).

Student's work integrity

While developing the project and activities students commit themselves to be creative and avoid plagiarism.

Reference to key elements of the institutional calendar

It is important to comply with the timetable attached in order to keep pace with classes (schedule attached).

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Websites of interest:

Spanish Association of vaccines http://www.vacunas.org/
http://www.gencat.es/sanitat
Citing documents:
http://www.uic.es/es/citar-documentos?seccio=2
How to cite electronic resources: http://www.ub.edu/biblio/citae-e.htm
Vancouver criteria: http://www.fisterra.com/recursos_web/mbe/vancouver.asp

E: exam date | R: revision date | 1: first session | 2: second session:

• E1 31/05/2017 10:00h
• R1 09/06/2017 11:00h
• E2 19/06/2017 10:00h
• R2 05/07/2017 11:00h