Subject

Practicum Profile in Advances Clinical Nursing I

  • code 09830
  • course 4
  • term Semester 1
  • type op
  • credits 6

Module: Module MINORS (Choose one minor)

Matter: Advanced Clinical Care

Main language of instruction: Spanish

Other languages of instruction: Catalan,

Teaching staff

Head instructor

Dra. Leandra MARTÍN - lmartind@uic.es

Office hours

  • Practice in the studens, addressing Furthermore, knowing in your academic tutor via email, provided that tengan needs.
  • May make contact with the coordinator of the practicum, by appointment (if not Urgent), via mail.

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.

The subject of Profile Practicum is a new course aimed at 4th year degree students which may be extended to 4th year students of any specialization. It is designed to help students complete their practical curriculum and go into depth in those areas related to the specialization chosen by the student in his final year. It can be developed in hospital or social health settings, as in the community field or solidarity projects, depending to the chosen specialization. It takes place in the 1st half of 4th year and lasts 8 weeks. In the middle of the period, there will be a rotation so that students can diversify their learning in different contexts.

Pre-course requirements

  • Not required

Objectives

  1. Going into depth in the knowledge, skills and attitudes of students in specific areas of professional practice
  2. Developing skills up to the required level, according to the criteria established in 4th year

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.
  • 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.

Learning outcomes of the subject

  • Makes supervised decisions, inside the interdisciplinary team
  • Assesses the consequences of her or his decisions
  • Makes supervised use of relevant communication skills in her or his daily practice
  • Poses potential nursing research problems
  • Provides alternative solutions to problems
  • Proposes (supervised) alternative solutions, to ethical conflicts detected.
  • Assembles concrete lifelong learning proposals (LLL)
  • Decides how to implement care plans, under supervision
  • Reflect on the action and identifies improvable situations
  • Sets personal and professional development goals
  • Develops concrete strategies to achieve her or his goals
  • Successfully internalizes change clinical practice.
  • Provides appropriate care to patients, community and risk groups, under supervision, through a critical use of the Nursing Care Process
  • Implements, after a critical analysis, the results of science research into professional practice.
  • Poses care plans, incorporating elements of the cultural context of the user within Code of Ethics for Nurses.
  • Develops, under supervision, care plans aimed at health promotion and disease prevention, adapted to the target population.
  • Suggests new strategies to develop community empowerment

Syllabus

Work placement in different contexts (hospitals, social care , community or Health and Cooperation), treating patients in critical condition, chronic patients, healthy people and risk groups.

Teaching and learning activities

In person

  • 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 tutoring: it is a learning and assessment activity developed by a University Professor, individually and / or in small groups, within the placement context of the students. It is based on reflective learning and is held every week in the clinical environment, with an average student dedication of 30-45 minutes per session.
  • Practicum Report: At the end of the practicum, the students must submit a project that presents their learning goals, explaining what they have learnt from their experience during professional practices and presenting their reflections on the internship. Case Method 

Evaluation systems and criteria

In person

  • Clinical mentoring (25%)
  • Academic tutoring (20%)
  • Practicum report (50%)
  • Self - assessment (5%)

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.

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.

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 (have to be recovered):

  • 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 mentoring sessions).

These will be reflected in the student's mark as follows:

  • 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.

Bibliography and resources

  • Elkin MK, Potter AG, Perry PA. (1996). Nursing interventions and skills. St. Louis: Mosby
  • Kozier B, Erb G, Blais K, Wilkinson J. (1998). Fundamentals of nursing: concepts, process, and practice. (5ª ed.). Redwood City, CA: Addison-Wesley
  • Kozier B, Erb G, Blais K. (2005). Conceptos y temas en la práctica de enfermería. (7ª ed.). Nueva York: Interamericana, McGraw-Hill
  • Iyer P. W., Taptich B. J., Bernocchi-Losey D. (1997). Proceso y diagnóstico de enfermería (3ª ed) México: Interamericana, McGraw-Hill
  • Marrier-Toney A. (1994). Nursing theorists and their work. (3ª de.). St. Louis: Mosby
  • Orem, D.(1983) Normas prácticas en enfermería. Madrid, Pirámide
  • Cavanagh, S.(1993) Modelo de Orem: aplicación práctica. Barcelona, Masson-Salvat
  • Roy, C. and Andrews, H. (1999). The Roy Adaptation model. Stamford, Appleton & Lange.
  • Henderson, V. (1971). Principios básicos de los cuidados de enfermería. Ginebra, S.Karger
  • Henderson, V. (1998). La naturaleza de la Enfermería. Madrid, McGraw-Hill
  • Fernández, C. y Novel, G. (1993). El proceso de atención de enfermería: Marco conceptual de Virginia Henderson. Barcelona: Masson-Salvat
  • Luis Rodrigo, Mª Teresa (2007). Los diagnósticos enfermeros. Revisión crítica y guía práctica. Barcelona, Masson.
  • Marriner, a. (2007 )Teorías y modelos de enfermería
  • Hernández Conesa, J. (1995). Historia de la Enfermería: Análisis histórico de los cuidados de enfermería. Madrid, interamericana - McGraw-Hill.
  • Dossier de Laboratorio de Simulación

Teaching and learning material

      Material
            Guía de Prácticas guiadepracticas.pdf 
            Memoria de Pràcticas memoriapracticas.pdf 
            Reglamento Interno UIC prácticas ri_regulador_practiques_externes.pdf 
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