Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - Barcelona

New Primary Care Nursing Roles

• code 09814
• course 4
• term Semester 1
• type op
• credits 4

Main language of instruction: Catalan

Other languages of instruction: Spanish

Head instructor

Dda. Anna CRUZ - acruz@uic.es

• Course 4 °
• Period Semester 1
• Types Citation Subject Community Care
• 4 ECTS credits

Responsible: Sra. Anna Cruz Oliveras  (acruz@hscor.com)
Hours: Monday and Tuesday 8-9.50

The subject of New Nursing Roles, is a new course aimed at 4th year students. Thanks to its original content, the student will contact an emerging perspective about the work of nursing professionals in the various fields in which nursing is becoming leader. The leadership of nurses in emerging roles opens up new possibilities for professional development and visibility of nursing work while opening new fields of employment.

• Not required

1. Introduce students to emerging nursing roles
2. Delve into the importance of nursing leadership in managing population health care
3. Familiarize students with new areas of professional development

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 22. G - Use and management of information and research
• 23. B - Ability to analyze and synthesize.
• 24. G - Ability to work autonomously.

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the various emerging roles
• Show commitment to the development of nursing leadership in new areas of nursing care
• Suggest strategies to develop the empowerment of individuals, groups and communities, in relation to new nursing roles
• Identify the different agents of community health
• Recognize the different cultures living in our society.
• Identify the socio - political and economic context that is affecting the development of new nursing roles
• Identify the specific pharmacology
• Designing the monitoring process of a patient from hospital admission until discharge and home return

• Unit 1. XXI Century Nursing. Nursing product. Service Portfolio (Professor: Anna Cruz)
• Unit 2. Innovate or not innovate on Nursing? (Professor: Daniel Regaña)
• Unit 3. Clinical Management. Functional Units. Care nurse role (Professor: Núria Casanovas)
• Unit 4. New Management Roles (Professor: Laura Palomino)
• Unit 5. Nursing role in process management. (Professor: Joana Blazquez)
• Unit 6. Nursing Role in Clinical Committees. (Professor: Puig Engracia)
• Unit 7. Results measuring, nursing intervention and nursing role in research. (Professor: Lucia Mata)
• Unit 8. Nursing organization models. (Professor: Lucia Mata)
• Unit 9. Case management nursing Link nurse (Professor: Rosa Vila)
• Unit 10. Community Health Nurse. (Professor: Rosa Vila)
• Unit 11. Nursing Care Manager. (Professor: M. Antònia Insensé)
• Unit 12. Patient Safety Reference Nurse (Professor: Cristina Sagrera)
• Unit 13. Infection Control Reference Nurse (Professor: Àngels Obiols)
• Unit 14. Company and Mourning Reference Nurse (Professor: Xusa Serra)
• Unit 15. Nursing Registration Reference Nurse. ICT Nursing Role (Professor: Jaume Riu and Alberto Sanchez)
• Unit 16. Advanced Nursing Practice (Professor: Joan Carles Jorda)
• Unit 17. Nursing Empowerment (Professor: Anna Cruz)
• Unit 18. Panel Discussion (Professor: Eugènia Masip)

• Master class
• Role Playing
• Discussion
• Cooperative group work

• Paper work (40%). The student will provide evidence of acquired knowledge and reflection carried out about the contents of the subject. The student will have guide notes to do complete this assessment form. Student will evaluate the following competences: 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 14, 17, 19, 22, 23, 24, 28.
• Multiple-choice exam (60%).  The speakers of each of unit will do a shared exam to evaluate the student's knowledge about the contents exposed. Evaluated skills: 2, 7, 9, 12, 13 and 17

Honors will not be awarded in the first resit.

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

• E1 22/11/2016 10:00h
• R1 12/12/2016 10:00h
• E2 30/06/2017 12:00h
• R2 14/07/2017 10:00h