Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - Barcelona

Advanced Practicum I

• code 09529
• course 3
• term Semester 1
• type PR
• credits 6

Module: Module Nursing Care from Birth to Death

Matter: Advanced Practicum

Main language of instruction: Catalan

Other languages of instruction: Spanish

Head instructor

Dra. Laia WENNBERG - lwennberg@uic.es

Other instructors

MsU Rosa AGUADO - raguadop@uic.es
MsU Bárbara AMOR - barbara.a@uic.es
Dra. Patricia MARTÍNEZ - ptari15@uic.es
MsU Ane ISASI - ane.isasi@uic.es
Dra. Cristina ALFONSO - calfonso@uic.es
MsU Sonia CASTRO - scasoll@uic.es
MsU Estel CURADO - estelcurado@uic.es
MsU José Pablo AGUDO - jpagudo@uic.es
Lda. Blanca BAU - bbau@uic.es
Dra. María Luisa MARTÍN - marisamf@uic.es
MsU Carmen María MORENO - cmoreno@uic.es
MsU Sandra PÉREZ - sandra.perez@uic.es
MsU María Lorena MOYA - lorenamoyac@uic.es
MsU Ana María YUSTE - amyuste@uic.es
MsU María del Mar BODAS - m.bodas@uic.es
Dda. Meritxell VIRGOS - mvirgos@uic.es
Dda. Ana Gloria GUIMET - aguimet@uic.es
Lda. Beatriz DELGADO - bdelgado@uic.es
MsU Silvia NOGALES - snogales@uic.es
Dp. David PÉREZ - dperezd@uic.es
MsU Francisco ZAMORA - fzamora@uic.es
Dra. Blanca GOÑI - bgoni@uic.es
MsU Maria de la Vega CAMARA - mcamara@uic.es
MsU Lorena ARRUFAT - larrufat@uic.es

Office hours

Trainees can be directed to your academic tutor via email,always in need of it.

You can also contact the practicum coordinator, by appointment (if noturgent), via email.

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. 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.

Third year students have 17 weeks work placement. These 14 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.)

• 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.
• It is recommended to have already taken the Initiation and the General Practicums.

During the work placement, the students must assimilate the following objectives:

1. Integrate theoretical and practical knowledge.
2. Acquire those skills and attitudes needed in order to provide care to the different users in different circumstances.
3. Develop emotional, relationship and communication skills when treating the patient, his/her family and his/her community.
4. Provide care assistance to a person in different states of health that they might experience through the Nursing Care Process (P.A.E)
5. Discover the knowledge and skills that an expert uses while developing the planned strategies of the different protocols.
6. Learn and put into practice the different roles of nursing. And learn about the role of the different professionals within the multidisciplinary team.
7. Find a place in the structure and operation of the unit and placement center.
8. Manage resources responsibly.

Specific objectives of Advanced Practicum 

1. 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:  
2. Acquire skills in specific techniques related to the operation of technology, materials and medical equipment of each unit.
3. Recognize and be able to put into practice efficiently the pathologies Care Plan taught during the 3rd year.
4. Acquire basic relational skills to work in a Primary Care Unit (EAP, Equipo de Atención Primaria) .
5. 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).
6. 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.  
7. Learn the operation of the basic tools of health education.
8. Understand the stages of the community oriented towards the primary care process.
9. 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
10. Understand ethical and legal principles of delegating to other healthcare team members and be able to delegate activities, under supervision, to nursing assistants.

• 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.
• 11. E - Establish effective communication with patients, families, social groups and partners and promote health education.

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 care
• Understand ethical and legal principles of delegating to other healthcare team members and be able to delegate activities, under supervision, to nursing assistants.

• Knowledge of the context of care.
• Communication with the patient and the healthcare team.
• Assessment of patient.
• Guided participation in caring for children, adults and the healthy/sick people in Primary Care.
• Guided participation in caring for hospitalized children, adults and the elderly in exacerbation or chronic situations.
• Critical patient

• Clinical mentoring: focuses on the accompaniment of the student by the nurse who is assigned in the placement center, and on the monitoring of the learning process of the student. It is an observational and modeling learning model.
• Academic tutorial: a learning and assessment activity carried out by a professor of the University, individually and / or in small groups, at the work placement centers of the students. It is based on reflective, dialogical and group learning, also using the case methodology. It is done every week, in the practical environment, with an average student dedication of 30-45 minutes per session.
• Practicum Report: At the end of the practicum, the student must submit a report that presents their learning goals, obtained knowledge, experience gained during the work placement and a reflection on the practicum itself.
• Case Method

• Clinical mentoring: 25%
• Self - Assessment: 5%
• Academic tutorial: 20%
• Practicum report 50%

Evaluation documents, where the learning results expected for the student are specified, are available on the Intranet, in the dossier of the practicum, section "Teaching materials" of the Course Description (Guía Docente) of the subject. The document through which the academic tutor evaluates will be shown to the student during the first tutorial of the practicum.

Unexcused absence at the introductory session of the course will be penalized with a 0.5 point deduction in the overall mark for the course.

Justified reasons for absence:

• Disease
• Accident
• Death of a relative
• Main family events such as weddings, communions, baptisms, etc.
• Competition in federated teams of the University.

There will be no option to recover unexcused absences (work placement or tutorials).

These will be reflected in the student's mark as follows (must be recovered):

• • 1 DAY lowering 1 point the overall mark
  • 2 DAYS lowering 2 points the overall mark
  •  > 2 DAYS Practicum fail and retake in a second call. 

In both cases the final decision on the student's mark will be taken by the work placement evaluation board. 

The first day of work placement the student must present the internship dossier to the clinical mentor and submit the internship agreement in the assigned Health center, this is a prerequisite to star the internship.

The evaluation documents of the internship dossier must be submitted, signed and sealed. The presentation without this requirement will entail the withdrawal of 1 point of the final mark.  

First Class of Honors is a special mention in addition to the final mark, granting this special mention will be decided by the evaluation board of the subject, according to the merits of the student.

Honors will not be awarded in the first resit.

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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