Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - Barcelona

Advanced Clinical Nursing Care

• code 09821
• course 4
• term Semester 1
• type op
• credits 5

Main language of instruction: Catalan

Other languages of instruction: Spanish

Head instructor

MsU Anna Maria ALIBERCH - aaliberch@uic.es

Office hours

Teachers:

• Obstetrics: Dra.Noemí Obregon i MsU. Alba Calderer
• Pediatrics: MSU. Marian Cerezuela 
• Adult:

        MSU. Anna Ma Aliberch 
        Dra. Encarna Rodriguez 
        MSU. Jordi Castillo 
        RN. Magda Quijada   
        Dr.  David Paredes  
        RN: Sandra Saavedra  

• Emergency management:

        Mr. Roger Llinàs
        Sr.Jesús Cabanas   

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Modules:

• Obstetrics (0.6 credits)
• Pediatrics (0.6 credits)
• Adult (1.8 credits)
• Emergency Management (2.0 credits)

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.

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

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 

• 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.

• 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.

Adult: 

Module 1: 
Seminars and coordinating transplants

Module 2: 
Clinical simulation based on patient's safety.

• Obstetrics case
• Organs donation's case
• Triage and surgery case
• ICU case (Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos-UCI- in Spanish)
• CPR Case (Reanimación Cardio Pulmonar-RCP- in Spanish)

Obstetrics:

• Childbirth 
• Obstetric-gynecological emergency care 
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Pediatrics:

• Surgical child nursing care 
• Hematology-oncologic child nursing care  
• Pluripathological child nursing care 
   

Emergency management

• Emergencies organization 
• Decision making in emergencies 
• Traffic accidents 
• Ambulance equipment 
• Hospital fire 
• Burned Patient Care 
• Intoxicated patient care 
• Multiple victim accidents 
• Immobilizing-transportation equipment 
• Traumatic patient care 
• Pediatric patient care

Assessment will be continual and there will also be exams

Part of the continuous assessment includes the resolution of cases in the classroom, the evaluation and monitoring of different exercises and tasks, the moodle questionnaires and the critical readings.

Each part of the course may have different assessment processes but all together will make the final mark of the course.

Each of these parts (or units) will use different methodologies for the conclusive mark.

That is, each unit (adult, emergency management, pediatrics and obstetrics) may or may not have or two parts of the assessment: continuous assessment and / or exams

Therefore, each outcome within the continuous assessment of the subject (which may include knowledge tests as a continuous assessment methodology), and the final exam will conform the final mark of the course.
 

The final mark will be proportionally divided as follows:

• Continuous assessment: 55%; Emergency management 15%, Transplants assistance 5% and Adult-simulation 35% 
• Final exam: 45%. 14% emergency management, pediatrics 6%, and adult-simulation 25%
   

Continuous assessment will consist of:

• Online Questionnaires
• Paper works
• Attendance
• Simulation

All parts must be passed with a minimum mark of 5. All units (adult, pediatrics, obstetrics and emergency management) have to be passed with a minimum mark of 5 in order to be part of the average mark and pass the course. If the student does not pass one of the assessment exercises either of the continuous assessment or the exams, a way to retake that part will be established, keeping the mark of the other passed exercises.  

In order to pass the continuous assessment mark of Emergency Management once failed, students will have to do a project. In the case of Adult Simulation, it will be necessary to do a new case study (different from those already seen). If the student has failed the final exam, she or he will have to do a project corresponding to the worksheet. 

In the 1st resit, the marks of the passed parts will still be part of the average so they do not have to be retaken.  In first resit, continual evaluation mark will correspond to a project or an exam. Maximum mark when retaken will be a 5. For failed exams, students will have to retake another exam in first resit.  

On 2nd and 3rd resits the course will be assessed with the same system as in the examination and 1st resit. Other year's marks will not have any value in the subsequent resits.

First Class Honours will not be awarded in second assessment.

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

• E1 17/11/2016 10:00h
• R1 30/11/2016 10:00h
• E2 23/06/2017 12:00h
• R2 07/07/2017 12:00h