The Degree in Nursing aims to train professionals capable of providing adequate technical and professional health care, according to the current state of development of scientific knowledge, who can comprehend the interactive behaviour of the person according to their gender, community, within their social context, understanding the theoretical and methodological principles of nursing.
Duration:
4 academic years
RUCT code: 2504480
Seats number: 150
Dean or center director:
RAQUEL RODRIGUEZ GONZALEZ
raquel.rodriguez [at] usc.es
Title coordinator:
Raquel Rodriguez Gonzalez
raquel.rodriguez [at] usc.es
Use languages:
Spanish, Galician
MECES Level: 2
Coordinator university:
University of Santiago de Compostela
Partaker universities:
University of Santiago de Compostela
Xunta de Galicia title implantation authorization date:
Orde do 27/07/2022 (DOG do 10/08/2022)
BOE publication date:
BOE do 5/04/2023
Last accreditation date:
03/06/2022
Professional qualification:
This qualification entitles the holder to practise the regulated profession of Nursing in Spain.
No se contemplan
New students entering the Nursing degree program must have a basic training in Sciences and Health Sciences. Likewise, they must show interest and motivation for the care of people and disposition for observation, analysis and continuous training. It is considered that the future student in Nursing should have skills that favor communication, critical reasoning, teamwork and ethical commitment to the profession and resource management. They will be able to adapt to new situations, behave according to the rules and show an active attitude towards learning and teamwork.
New students entering the Nursing degree program must have a basic training in Sciences and Health Sciences. Likewise, they must show interest and motivation for the care of people and disposition for observation, analysis and continuous training. It is considered that the future student in Nursing should have skills that favor communication, critical reasoning, teamwork and ethical commitment to the profession and resource management. They will be able to adapt to new situations, behave according to the rules and show an active attitude towards learning and teamwork.
The University of Santiago has a university participation and integration service (SEPIU) (http://www.usc. es/gl/servizos/sepiu) that works on the integration of people with disabilities and provides support for the development of curricular adaptations, as well as a protocol for integration into the university community, The aim of these events is to introduce new students to the possibilities, resources and services offered by the University to the new students.
The University School of Nursing of Lugo (affiliated center) has a Welcome Document for new students, this document and the rules of the School is delivered to them on the first day of class. Nursing students are received by the School's management team to provide them with information related to nursing studies.
The USC has a student-tutor program for the undergraduate degrees, so that final year students, after receiving training from the University, can perform orientational tasks to students initiating their studies.
Information about student-tutor program:
When a degree suspension occurs, the USC guarantees the adequate development of teachings that were initiated by their students until its suspension. For that, the Government Council approves the criteria related with the admission of new degree entry registration and the gradual suspension of teaching impartation, among others.
If the suspended degree is substituted for a similar one —modifying the nature of the degree—, the new degree regulations will set the conditions to facilitate students the continuity of the new degree’s studies. These regulations will also set subject equivalences in both programs.
Generals for undergraduate degrees.
Special access conditions or tests are not contemplated
The School of Nursing has 8 general purpose classrooms of different capacities, two computer rooms and two rooms for practical teaching with around 30 seats.
There are also areas designated for students, such as a reading room with more than 20 seats.
The library service of the Lugo Campus is centralized in one building called “Biblioteca Intercentros”. The library has over 1600 reading stations distributed in 9 rooms, including a room for group work.
We can also highlight that wireless Internet connection is available everywhere in the Faculty.
1. To be able, in the field of nursing, to provide technical and professional healthcare appropriate to people's health needs, in accordance with current scientific evidence and the levels of quality and safety established in the applicable legal and ethical standards.
2. To provide nursing care based on comprehensive healthcare, which involves multi-professional cooperation, the integration of processes and continuity of care.
3. To manage available resources and establish evaluation mechanisms, taking into account scientific, technical and quality aspects.
- Students must demonstrate possession and understanding of knowledge in an area of study draw from the premise of a general secondary education. It is usually found in a level that —although it can be supported by advanced text books— also includes some aspects that imply knowledge arising from the forefront of their area of study.
- Students must be able to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and possess the competences which are usually demonstrated by means of the elaboration and defence of arguments and problem solving within their area of study
- Students must have the ability to collect and interpret relevant data —normally within their area of study— in order to make judgements that include a reflection on relevant themes of social, scientific or ethic nature.
- Students must be able to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to a public, both specialized and non-specialized.
- Students must develop those abilities of learning necessary to start higher studies with a high degree of autonomy
- To be able, in the field of nursing, to provide technical and professional health care appropriate to the health needs of the people they serve, in accordance with the state of development of scientific knowledge at any given time and with the levels of quality and safety established in the applicable legal and deontological standards.
- To plan and provide nursing care to individuals, families or groups, oriented to health outcomes, evaluating its impact, through clinical and care practice guidelines, which describe the processes by which a health problem is diagnosed, treated or cared for.
- To know and apply the fundamentals and theoretical and methodological principles of nursing.
- To understand the interactive behaviors of the person depending on their gender, group or community with the social and multicultural context.
- To design care systems directed to people, families or groups, evaluating its impact and establishing the relevant modifications.
- To base interventions of nursing on scientific evidence and the available means.
- To understand without prejudices, taking physical, psychological and social aspects into account, as autonomous and independent individuals, assuring respect towards their opinions, beliefs and values, granting the right to intimacy, through confidentiality and professional secrecy.
- To promote and respect the right to participation, information, autonomy and informed consent in the makinf¡g of decisions of the assisted people, according to the way they experience their process of health-illness.
- To promote healthy lifestyles, self-care, supporting the maintenance of preventive and therapeutic behaviors.
- To protect the health and wellbeing of the assisted people, families or groups, granting their safety.
- To establish efficient communication with patients, families or social groups and with colleagues, and to promote health education.
- To know the ethical and deontological code of Spanish nursing, understanding the ethical implications of health in a changing global context.
- To know the principles of sanitary and socio-sanitary funding and use the available resources adequately.
- To establish evaluation mechanisms, taking the scientific.technical and quality aspects into account.
- To work with the team of professionals as the basic unit in which the professionals and other personnel of the healthcare organizations are structured in a uni or multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary manner.
- To know the sanitary information systems.
- To perform nursing care based on integrated health care, which involves multi professional cooperation, integration of processes and continuity of care.
- To know the strategies to adopt comfortability and symptom care measures, directed to patients and families, in the application of palliative cares that contribute to to alleviate the situation of advanced and terminally ill patients.
- Ability to adequately use a range of skills, interventions and activities to promote optimal care. It involves performing assessments, procedures and techniques with full knowledge of the cause, excellent skill and ability and with maximum safety for the person receiving it and for oneself. All nursing interventions related to health promotion, health education, etc., would also be included in this section.
- To know and identify the structure and function of the human body. To understand the molecular and physiological bases of cells and tissues.
- To know the use and indication of medical devices related to nursing care.
- Know the different groups of drugs, the principles of their authorization, use and indication, and their mechanisms of action.
- Use of medications, evaluating the expected benefits and associated risks and/or effects derived from their administration and consumption.
- Know and assess the nutritional needs of healthy people and people with health problems throughout the life cycle, to promote and reinforce healthy eating behavior patterns. Identify nutrients and the foods in which they are found. Identify the most prevalent nutritional problems and select the appropriate dietary recommendations.
- Apply health care information and communication technologies and systems.
- Know the pathophysiological processes and their manifestations and the risk factors that determine the states of health and disease in the different stages of the life cycle.
- Identify the psychosocial responses of people in different health situations (in particular, illness and suffering), selecting the appropriate actions to provide help in these situations. Establish an empathic and respectful relationship with the patient and family, according to the person's situation, health problem and stage of development. Use strategies and skills that allow effective communication with patients, families and social groups, as well as the expression of their concerns and interests.
- Know and identify the psychological and physical problems derived from gender violence in order to train the student in prevention, early detection, assistance, and rehabilitation of the victims of this form of violence.
- Identify, integrate and relate the concept of health and care, from a historical perspective, to understand the evolution of nursing care.
- Understand from an ontological and epistemological perspective, the evolution of the central concepts that make up the nursing discipline, as well as the most relevant theoretical models, applying the scientific methodology in the process of caring and developing the corresponding care plans.
- Apply the nursing process to provide and guarantee the wellbeing, quality and safety of the people cared for.
- Know and apply the principles that support integral nursing care.
- Direct, evaluate and provide comprehensive nursing care to the individual, family and community.
- Ability to describe the fundamentals of the primary health level and the activities to be developed to provide comprehensive nursing care to the individual, the family and the community. Understand the role and activities and cooperative attitude that the professional has to develop in a Primary Health Care team. Promote the participation of individuals, families and groups in their health-illness process. Identify the factors related to health and environmental problems, to care for people in situations of health and disease as members of a community. Identify and analyze the influence of internal and external factors on the level of health of individuals and groups. Apply the necessary methods and procedures in their field to identify the most relevant health problems in a community. Analyze statistical data referred to population studies, identifying the possible causes of health problems. Educate, facilitate and support the health and well-being of community members whose lives are affected by health problems, risk, suffering, illness, disability or death.
- To know the health alterations of the adult, identifying the manifestations that appear in their different phases. Identify the care needs derived from health problems. Analyze the data collected in the assessment, prioritize the problems of the adult patient, establish and implement the care plan and perform its evaluation. Perform nursing care techniques and procedures, establishing a therapeutic relationship with patients and family members. Select interventions aimed at treating or preventing problems derived from health deviations. Have a cooperative attitude with the different members of the team.
- Identify the characteristics of women in the different stages of the reproductive cycle and in the climacteric and in the alterations that may occur, providing the necessary care at each stage. Apply general care during the maternity process to facilitate the adaptation of women and newborns to new demands and prevent complications.
- To know the specific aspects of neonatal care. To identify the characteristics of the different stages of childhood and adolescence and the factors that condition the normal pattern of growth and development. To know the most frequent health problems in childhood and identify their manifestations. Analyze the assessment data of the child, identifying the nursing problems and complications that may occur. Apply the techniques that integrate nursing care, establishing a therapeutic relationship with children and their caregivers. Select interventions directed to the healthy and sick child, as well as those derived from diagnostic and treatment methods. Be able to provide health education to parents or primary caregivers.
- Understand the changes associated with the aging process and their impact on health. Identify the structural, functional, psychological and lifestyle changes associated with the aging process.
- To know the most frequent health problems in the elderly. To select caregiving interventions aimed at treating or preventing health problems and their adaptation to daily life through proximity resources and support for the elderly person.
- Ability to apply knowledge to practice.
- Ability to work in teams.
- Motivation.
- Ethical commitment
- Ability to solve problems
- Basic knowledge of the profession.
- Analysis and synthesis capacity
- Concern for quality.
- Decision-making capacity.
- Ability to adapt to new situations
- Interpersonal skills.
- Planification and management of time
- Ability to work in an autonomous way.
- information-management skills (ability to search and analyze information from different sources).
- Appreciation of diversity and multiculturalism.
- Research skills
- Basic computer skills.
Comp01: Be capable, in the field of nursing, of providing technical and professional healthcare appropriate to the health needs of the people they care for, in accordance with the state of scientific knowledge at any given time and with the levels of quality and safety established in the applicable legal and ethical standards.
Comp02: Plan and provide nursing care aimed at individuals, families or groups, focused on health outcomes and evaluating their impact, through clinical and care practice guidelines that describe the processes by which a health problem is diagnosed, treated or cared for.
Comp03: Understand the interactive behaviour of individuals based on gender, group or community, within their social and multicultural context.
Comp04: Design care systems aimed at individuals, families or groups, evaluating their impact and making appropriate modifications.
Comp05: Base nursing interventions on scientific evidence and available resources.
Comp06: Understand people without prejudice, considering their physical, psychological and social aspects as autonomous and independent individuals, ensuring respect for their opinions, beliefs and values, and guaranteeing their right to privacy through confidentiality and professional secrecy.
Comp07: Promote and respect the right to participation, information, autonomy and informed consent in decision-making for those receiving care, in accordance with how they experience their health-illness process.
Comp08: Encourage healthy lifestyles and self-care, supporting the maintenance of preventive and therapeutic behaviours.
Comp09: Protect the health and well-being of individuals, families or groups receiving care, ensuring their safety.
Comp10: Establish effective communication with patients, families, social groups and colleagues and promote health education.
Comp11: Establish evaluation mechanisms, considering scientific-technical and quality aspects.
Comp12: Work with the team of professionals as a basic unit in which professionals and other staff from healthcare organisations are structured in a uni- or multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary manner.
Comp13: Provide nursing care based on comprehensive health care, which involves multi-professional cooperation, the integration of processes and continuity of care.
Comp14: Use medicines, evaluating the expected benefits and associated risks and/or effects of their administration and consumption.
Comp15: Apply health care information and communication technologies and systems.
Comp16: Identify people's psychosocial responses to different health situations (particularly illness and suffering), selecting appropriate actions to provide assistance in these situations. Establish an empathetic and respectful relationship with the patient and family, in accordance with the person's situation, health problem and stage of development. Use strategies and skills that enable effective communication with patients, families and social groups, as well as the expression of their concerns and interests.
Comp17: Apply the nursing process to provide and ensure the well-being, quality and safety of the people being cared for.
Comp18: Direct, evaluate and provide comprehensive nursing care to the individual, family and community.
Comp19: Ability to describe the fundamentals of primary health care and the activities to be carried out to provide comprehensive nursing care to individuals, families and communities. Understand the role, activities and cooperative attitude that professionals must develop in a primary health care team. Promote the participation of individuals, families and groups in their health-illness process. Identify factors related to health and environmental problems in order to care for individuals in health and illness situations as members of a community. Identify and analyse the influence of internal and external factors on the health status of individuals and groups. Apply the necessary methods and procedures in their field to identify the most relevant health problems in a community. Analyse statistical data from population studies, identifying the possible causes of health problems. Educate, facilitate and support the health and well-being of community members whose lives are affected by health problems, risk, suffering, illness, disability or death.
Comp20: Select interventions aimed at treating or preventing problems arising from health deviations. Have a cooperative attitude with the different members of the team.
Comp21: Identify the characteristics of women at different stages of the reproductive cycle and during menopause, as well as any changes that may occur, providing the necessary care at each stage. Apply general care during the maternity process to facilitate the adaptation of women and newborns to new demands and prevent complications.
Comp22: Analyse child assessment data, identifying nursing problems and complications that may arise. Select interventions aimed at healthy and sick children, as well as those derived from diagnostic and treatment methods. Be able to provide health education to parents or primary caregivers.
Comp23: Provide care, guaranteeing the right to dignity, privacy, intimacy, confidentiality and decision-making capacity of the patient and family. Individualise care considering age, gender, cultural differences, ethnic group, beliefs and values.
Comp24: Incorporate professional values, healthcare communication skills, clinical reasoning, clinical management and critical judgement, integrating into professional practice the knowledge, skills and attitudes of nursing, based on principles and values, associated with the competencies described in the general objectives and in the subjects that make up the degree.
Comp25: Desarrollar capacidad para el trabajo en equipo
Comp26: Adquirir capacidad para la resolución de problemas
Comp27: Adquirir capacidad para la toma de decisiones
Comp28: Desarollar capacidad para adaptarse a nuevas situaciones.
Comp29: Planificar y gestionar el tiempo
Comp30: Trabajar de manera autónoma
Comp31: Gestionar información
Comp32: Apreciar la diversidad y multiculturalidad
Comp33: Desarrollar habilidades de investigación
Comp34: Adquirir habilidades básicas de manejo de ordenadores
HD01: Recognise life-threatening situations and know how to perform basic and advanced life support manoeuvres.
HD02: Perform nursing care techniques and procedures, establishing a therapeutic relationship with patients and their families.
HD03: Apply nursing care techniques, establishing a therapeutic relationship with children and their carers.
HD04: Ability to implement health and safety principles, including patient mobilisation and handling, infection control, basic first aid and emergency procedures.
HD05: Ability to safely administer drugs and other therapies.
Con01: Understand and apply the theoretical and methodological foundations and principles of nursing.
Con02: Understand the ethical and deontological code of Spanish nursing, comprehending the ethical implications of health in a changing global context.
Con03: Understand the principles of health and social care financing and make appropriate use of available resources.
Con04: Understand healthcare information systems.
Con05: Understand strategies for adopting comfort and symptom management measures, aimed at patients and families, in the application of palliative care that contributes to alleviating the situation of advanced and terminal patients.
Con06: Understand and identify the structure and function of the human body. Understand the molecular and physiological bases of cells and tissues.
Con07: Understand the use and indication of healthcare products related to nursing care.
Con08: Know the different groups of drugs, the principles of their authorisation, use and indication, and their mechanisms of action.
Con09: Know and assess the nutritional needs of healthy people and those with health problems throughout the life cycle, in order to promote and reinforce healthy eating habits. Identify nutrients and the foods in which they are found. Identify the most prevalent nutritional problems and select appropriate dietary recommendations.
Con10: Understand the pathophysiological processes and their manifestations, as well as the risk factors that determine health and disease states at different stages of the life cycle.
Con11: Understand and identify the psychological and physical problems resulting from gender-based violence in order to train students in the prevention, early detection, care, and rehabilitation of victims of this form of violence.
Con12: Identify, integrate, and relate the concept of health and care from a historical perspective in order to understand the evolution of nursing care.
Con13: Understand, from an ontological and epistemological perspective, the evolution of the central concepts that shape the discipline of nursing, as well as the most relevant theoretical models, applying scientific methodology in the care process and developing the corresponding care plans.
Con14: Know and apply the principles that underpin comprehensive nursing care.
Con15: Understand adult health disorders, identifying the manifestations that appear in their different phases. Identify the care needs arising from health problems. Analyse the data collected in the assessment, prioritise the adult patient's problems, establish and implement the care plan and carry out its evaluation.
Con16: Understand the specific aspects of newborn care. Identify the characteristics of the different stages of childhood and adolescence and the factors that determine normal growth and development patterns. Understand the most common health problems in childhood and identify their symptoms.
Con17: Understand the changes associated with the ageing process and their impact on health. Identify the structural, functional, psychological and lifestyle changes associated with the ageing process.
Con18. Understand the most common health problems in older people. Select care interventions aimed at treating or preventing health problems and adapting to daily life through local resources and support for the elderly.
Con19: Understand the Spanish healthcare system. Identify the characteristics of the management function of nursing services and care management. Understand and be able to apply group management techniques.
Con20: Understand the applicable legislation and the code of ethics and professional conduct for Spanish nursing, inspired by the European code of ethics and professional conduct for nursing.
Con21: Understand the most relevant mental health problems at different stages of the life cycle, providing comprehensive and effective care in the field of nursing.
Con22: Understand palliative care and pain management in order to provide care that alleviates the suffering of patients with advanced and terminal illnesses.
Student mobility is regulated by the ‘Regulamento de Intercambios Interuniversitarios’ approved by the Consello de Goberno da USC on 6 February 2008 and published in the Diario Oficial de Galicia on 26 March (http://www.usc.es/estaticos/normativa/pdf/regulinterinterunivest08.pdf).
Its planning and management is carried out by the Mobility Office, in coordination with the Faculty through the ‘Unidad de Apoyo a la Gestión de Centros y Departamentos’ (UAGCD) and the Academic Mobility Officer.
A total of 84 credits are programmed as mandatory, distributed in the subjects Tutored Practices I, II, III, IV, V and VI, according to planning criteria and mechanisms to guarantee quality and the most appropriate use by the students.
A graduate in Nursing is a professional trained to provide care in Primary Care, Specialised Care and to perform administrative and management functions in health and social care nursing services, teaching and research, both in our country, in the European Union and in other countries around the world, following the corresponding accreditation in accordance with established agreements.
This degree qualifies graduates to practise professionally in the key sector of public and private healthcare. Within the sector, the nursing profession is experiencing growth in its care, management and academic (teaching and research) competencies.
In the field of care, graduates have the scientific and human preparation to assess, identify, act on and evaluate the health and care needs of healthy or sick people, their families and the community. In addition, a degree in Nursing is a necessary requirement for access to any of the nursing specialities regulated by Royal Decree 450/2005 of 22 April.
Graduates in Nursing have skills that enable them to perform administrative and management functions in nursing services in positions and roles related to health service planning. Teaching and research are also two areas in which they can work, with access to the official systems that regulate the development of teaching careers at secondary and university levels, as well as research careers. Holding a degree in Nursing allows access to postgraduate training and doctoral studies.
Undergraduate students must complete and present a paper demonstrating the competencies acquired during the four years of study. It will be offered in the last four-month period of the study plan.
Duration:
4 academic years
RUCT code: 2504480
Seats number: 150
Dean or center director:
RAQUEL RODRIGUEZ GONZALEZ
raquel.rodriguez [at] usc.es
Title coordinator:
Raquel Rodriguez Gonzalez
raquel.rodriguez [at] usc.es
Use languages:
Spanish, Galician
MECES Level: 2
Coordinator university:
University of Santiago de Compostela
Partaker universities:
University of Santiago de Compostela
Xunta de Galicia title implantation authorization date:
Orde do 27/07/2022 (DOG do 10/08/2022)
BOE publication date:
BOE do 5/04/2023
Last accreditation date:
03/06/2022
Professional qualification:
This qualification entitles the holder to practise the regulated profession of Nursing in Spain.
No se contemplan
New students entering the Nursing degree program must have a basic training in Sciences and Health Sciences. Likewise, they must show interest and motivation for the care of people and disposition for observation, analysis and continuous training. It is considered that the future student in Nursing should have skills that favor communication, critical reasoning, teamwork and ethical commitment to the profession and resource management. They will be able to adapt to new situations, behave according to the rules and show an active attitude towards learning and teamwork.
New students entering the Nursing degree program must have a basic training in Sciences and Health Sciences. Likewise, they must show interest and motivation for the care of people and disposition for observation, analysis and continuous training. It is considered that the future student in Nursing should have skills that favor communication, critical reasoning, teamwork and ethical commitment to the profession and resource management. They will be able to adapt to new situations, behave according to the rules and show an active attitude towards learning and teamwork.
The University of Santiago has a university participation and integration service (SEPIU) (http://www.usc. es/gl/servizos/sepiu) that works on the integration of people with disabilities and provides support for the development of curricular adaptations, as well as a protocol for integration into the university community, The aim of these events is to introduce new students to the possibilities, resources and services offered by the University to the new students.
The University School of Nursing of Lugo (affiliated center) has a Welcome Document for new students, this document and the rules of the School is delivered to them on the first day of class. Nursing students are received by the School's management team to provide them with information related to nursing studies.
The USC has a student-tutor program for the undergraduate degrees, so that final year students, after receiving training from the University, can perform orientational tasks to students initiating their studies.
Information about student-tutor program:
When a degree suspension occurs, the USC guarantees the adequate development of teachings that were initiated by their students until its suspension. For that, the Government Council approves the criteria related with the admission of new degree entry registration and the gradual suspension of teaching impartation, among others.
If the suspended degree is substituted for a similar one —modifying the nature of the degree—, the new degree regulations will set the conditions to facilitate students the continuity of the new degree’s studies. These regulations will also set subject equivalences in both programs.
Generals for undergraduate degrees.
Special access conditions or tests are not contemplated
The School of Nursing has 8 general purpose classrooms of different capacities, two computer rooms and two rooms for practical teaching with around 30 seats.
There are also areas designated for students, such as a reading room with more than 20 seats.
The library service of the Lugo Campus is centralized in one building called “Biblioteca Intercentros”. The library has over 1600 reading stations distributed in 9 rooms, including a room for group work.
We can also highlight that wireless Internet connection is available everywhere in the Faculty.
1. To be able, in the field of nursing, to provide technical and professional healthcare appropriate to people's health needs, in accordance with current scientific evidence and the levels of quality and safety established in the applicable legal and ethical standards.
2. To provide nursing care based on comprehensive healthcare, which involves multi-professional cooperation, the integration of processes and continuity of care.
3. To manage available resources and establish evaluation mechanisms, taking into account scientific, technical and quality aspects.
- Students must demonstrate possession and understanding of knowledge in an area of study draw from the premise of a general secondary education. It is usually found in a level that —although it can be supported by advanced text books— also includes some aspects that imply knowledge arising from the forefront of their area of study.
- Students must be able to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and possess the competences which are usually demonstrated by means of the elaboration and defence of arguments and problem solving within their area of study
- Students must have the ability to collect and interpret relevant data —normally within their area of study— in order to make judgements that include a reflection on relevant themes of social, scientific or ethic nature.
- Students must be able to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to a public, both specialized and non-specialized.
- Students must develop those abilities of learning necessary to start higher studies with a high degree of autonomy
- To be able, in the field of nursing, to provide technical and professional health care appropriate to the health needs of the people they serve, in accordance with the state of development of scientific knowledge at any given time and with the levels of quality and safety established in the applicable legal and deontological standards.
- To plan and provide nursing care to individuals, families or groups, oriented to health outcomes, evaluating its impact, through clinical and care practice guidelines, which describe the processes by which a health problem is diagnosed, treated or cared for.
- To know and apply the fundamentals and theoretical and methodological principles of nursing.
- To understand the interactive behaviors of the person depending on their gender, group or community with the social and multicultural context.
- To design care systems directed to people, families or groups, evaluating its impact and establishing the relevant modifications.
- To base interventions of nursing on scientific evidence and the available means.
- To understand without prejudices, taking physical, psychological and social aspects into account, as autonomous and independent individuals, assuring respect towards their opinions, beliefs and values, granting the right to intimacy, through confidentiality and professional secrecy.
- To promote and respect the right to participation, information, autonomy and informed consent in the makinf¡g of decisions of the assisted people, according to the way they experience their process of health-illness.
- To promote healthy lifestyles, self-care, supporting the maintenance of preventive and therapeutic behaviors.
- To protect the health and wellbeing of the assisted people, families or groups, granting their safety.
- To establish efficient communication with patients, families or social groups and with colleagues, and to promote health education.
- To know the ethical and deontological code of Spanish nursing, understanding the ethical implications of health in a changing global context.
- To know the principles of sanitary and socio-sanitary funding and use the available resources adequately.
- To establish evaluation mechanisms, taking the scientific.technical and quality aspects into account.
- To work with the team of professionals as the basic unit in which the professionals and other personnel of the healthcare organizations are structured in a uni or multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary manner.
- To know the sanitary information systems.
- To perform nursing care based on integrated health care, which involves multi professional cooperation, integration of processes and continuity of care.
- To know the strategies to adopt comfortability and symptom care measures, directed to patients and families, in the application of palliative cares that contribute to to alleviate the situation of advanced and terminally ill patients.
- Ability to adequately use a range of skills, interventions and activities to promote optimal care. It involves performing assessments, procedures and techniques with full knowledge of the cause, excellent skill and ability and with maximum safety for the person receiving it and for oneself. All nursing interventions related to health promotion, health education, etc., would also be included in this section.
- To know and identify the structure and function of the human body. To understand the molecular and physiological bases of cells and tissues.
- To know the use and indication of medical devices related to nursing care.
- Know the different groups of drugs, the principles of their authorization, use and indication, and their mechanisms of action.
- Use of medications, evaluating the expected benefits and associated risks and/or effects derived from their administration and consumption.
- Know and assess the nutritional needs of healthy people and people with health problems throughout the life cycle, to promote and reinforce healthy eating behavior patterns. Identify nutrients and the foods in which they are found. Identify the most prevalent nutritional problems and select the appropriate dietary recommendations.
- Apply health care information and communication technologies and systems.
- Know the pathophysiological processes and their manifestations and the risk factors that determine the states of health and disease in the different stages of the life cycle.
- Identify the psychosocial responses of people in different health situations (in particular, illness and suffering), selecting the appropriate actions to provide help in these situations. Establish an empathic and respectful relationship with the patient and family, according to the person's situation, health problem and stage of development. Use strategies and skills that allow effective communication with patients, families and social groups, as well as the expression of their concerns and interests.
- Know and identify the psychological and physical problems derived from gender violence in order to train the student in prevention, early detection, assistance, and rehabilitation of the victims of this form of violence.
- Identify, integrate and relate the concept of health and care, from a historical perspective, to understand the evolution of nursing care.
- Understand from an ontological and epistemological perspective, the evolution of the central concepts that make up the nursing discipline, as well as the most relevant theoretical models, applying the scientific methodology in the process of caring and developing the corresponding care plans.
- Apply the nursing process to provide and guarantee the wellbeing, quality and safety of the people cared for.
- Know and apply the principles that support integral nursing care.
- Direct, evaluate and provide comprehensive nursing care to the individual, family and community.
- Ability to describe the fundamentals of the primary health level and the activities to be developed to provide comprehensive nursing care to the individual, the family and the community. Understand the role and activities and cooperative attitude that the professional has to develop in a Primary Health Care team. Promote the participation of individuals, families and groups in their health-illness process. Identify the factors related to health and environmental problems, to care for people in situations of health and disease as members of a community. Identify and analyze the influence of internal and external factors on the level of health of individuals and groups. Apply the necessary methods and procedures in their field to identify the most relevant health problems in a community. Analyze statistical data referred to population studies, identifying the possible causes of health problems. Educate, facilitate and support the health and well-being of community members whose lives are affected by health problems, risk, suffering, illness, disability or death.
- To know the health alterations of the adult, identifying the manifestations that appear in their different phases. Identify the care needs derived from health problems. Analyze the data collected in the assessment, prioritize the problems of the adult patient, establish and implement the care plan and perform its evaluation. Perform nursing care techniques and procedures, establishing a therapeutic relationship with patients and family members. Select interventions aimed at treating or preventing problems derived from health deviations. Have a cooperative attitude with the different members of the team.
- Identify the characteristics of women in the different stages of the reproductive cycle and in the climacteric and in the alterations that may occur, providing the necessary care at each stage. Apply general care during the maternity process to facilitate the adaptation of women and newborns to new demands and prevent complications.
- To know the specific aspects of neonatal care. To identify the characteristics of the different stages of childhood and adolescence and the factors that condition the normal pattern of growth and development. To know the most frequent health problems in childhood and identify their manifestations. Analyze the assessment data of the child, identifying the nursing problems and complications that may occur. Apply the techniques that integrate nursing care, establishing a therapeutic relationship with children and their caregivers. Select interventions directed to the healthy and sick child, as well as those derived from diagnostic and treatment methods. Be able to provide health education to parents or primary caregivers.
- Understand the changes associated with the aging process and their impact on health. Identify the structural, functional, psychological and lifestyle changes associated with the aging process.
- To know the most frequent health problems in the elderly. To select caregiving interventions aimed at treating or preventing health problems and their adaptation to daily life through proximity resources and support for the elderly person.
- Ability to apply knowledge to practice.
- Ability to work in teams.
- Motivation.
- Ethical commitment
- Ability to solve problems
- Basic knowledge of the profession.
- Analysis and synthesis capacity
- Concern for quality.
- Decision-making capacity.
- Ability to adapt to new situations
- Interpersonal skills.
- Planification and management of time
- Ability to work in an autonomous way.
- information-management skills (ability to search and analyze information from different sources).
- Appreciation of diversity and multiculturalism.
- Research skills
- Basic computer skills.
Comp01: Be capable, in the field of nursing, of providing technical and professional healthcare appropriate to the health needs of the people they care for, in accordance with the state of scientific knowledge at any given time and with the levels of quality and safety established in the applicable legal and ethical standards.
Comp02: Plan and provide nursing care aimed at individuals, families or groups, focused on health outcomes and evaluating their impact, through clinical and care practice guidelines that describe the processes by which a health problem is diagnosed, treated or cared for.
Comp03: Understand the interactive behaviour of individuals based on gender, group or community, within their social and multicultural context.
Comp04: Design care systems aimed at individuals, families or groups, evaluating their impact and making appropriate modifications.
Comp05: Base nursing interventions on scientific evidence and available resources.
Comp06: Understand people without prejudice, considering their physical, psychological and social aspects as autonomous and independent individuals, ensuring respect for their opinions, beliefs and values, and guaranteeing their right to privacy through confidentiality and professional secrecy.
Comp07: Promote and respect the right to participation, information, autonomy and informed consent in decision-making for those receiving care, in accordance with how they experience their health-illness process.
Comp08: Encourage healthy lifestyles and self-care, supporting the maintenance of preventive and therapeutic behaviours.
Comp09: Protect the health and well-being of individuals, families or groups receiving care, ensuring their safety.
Comp10: Establish effective communication with patients, families, social groups and colleagues and promote health education.
Comp11: Establish evaluation mechanisms, considering scientific-technical and quality aspects.
Comp12: Work with the team of professionals as a basic unit in which professionals and other staff from healthcare organisations are structured in a uni- or multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary manner.
Comp13: Provide nursing care based on comprehensive health care, which involves multi-professional cooperation, the integration of processes and continuity of care.
Comp14: Use medicines, evaluating the expected benefits and associated risks and/or effects of their administration and consumption.
Comp15: Apply health care information and communication technologies and systems.
Comp16: Identify people's psychosocial responses to different health situations (particularly illness and suffering), selecting appropriate actions to provide assistance in these situations. Establish an empathetic and respectful relationship with the patient and family, in accordance with the person's situation, health problem and stage of development. Use strategies and skills that enable effective communication with patients, families and social groups, as well as the expression of their concerns and interests.
Comp17: Apply the nursing process to provide and ensure the well-being, quality and safety of the people being cared for.
Comp18: Direct, evaluate and provide comprehensive nursing care to the individual, family and community.
Comp19: Ability to describe the fundamentals of primary health care and the activities to be carried out to provide comprehensive nursing care to individuals, families and communities. Understand the role, activities and cooperative attitude that professionals must develop in a primary health care team. Promote the participation of individuals, families and groups in their health-illness process. Identify factors related to health and environmental problems in order to care for individuals in health and illness situations as members of a community. Identify and analyse the influence of internal and external factors on the health status of individuals and groups. Apply the necessary methods and procedures in their field to identify the most relevant health problems in a community. Analyse statistical data from population studies, identifying the possible causes of health problems. Educate, facilitate and support the health and well-being of community members whose lives are affected by health problems, risk, suffering, illness, disability or death.
Comp20: Select interventions aimed at treating or preventing problems arising from health deviations. Have a cooperative attitude with the different members of the team.
Comp21: Identify the characteristics of women at different stages of the reproductive cycle and during menopause, as well as any changes that may occur, providing the necessary care at each stage. Apply general care during the maternity process to facilitate the adaptation of women and newborns to new demands and prevent complications.
Comp22: Analyse child assessment data, identifying nursing problems and complications that may arise. Select interventions aimed at healthy and sick children, as well as those derived from diagnostic and treatment methods. Be able to provide health education to parents or primary caregivers.
Comp23: Provide care, guaranteeing the right to dignity, privacy, intimacy, confidentiality and decision-making capacity of the patient and family. Individualise care considering age, gender, cultural differences, ethnic group, beliefs and values.
Comp24: Incorporate professional values, healthcare communication skills, clinical reasoning, clinical management and critical judgement, integrating into professional practice the knowledge, skills and attitudes of nursing, based on principles and values, associated with the competencies described in the general objectives and in the subjects that make up the degree.
Comp25: Desarrollar capacidad para el trabajo en equipo
Comp26: Adquirir capacidad para la resolución de problemas
Comp27: Adquirir capacidad para la toma de decisiones
Comp28: Desarollar capacidad para adaptarse a nuevas situaciones.
Comp29: Planificar y gestionar el tiempo
Comp30: Trabajar de manera autónoma
Comp31: Gestionar información
Comp32: Apreciar la diversidad y multiculturalidad
Comp33: Desarrollar habilidades de investigación
Comp34: Adquirir habilidades básicas de manejo de ordenadores
HD01: Recognise life-threatening situations and know how to perform basic and advanced life support manoeuvres.
HD02: Perform nursing care techniques and procedures, establishing a therapeutic relationship with patients and their families.
HD03: Apply nursing care techniques, establishing a therapeutic relationship with children and their carers.
HD04: Ability to implement health and safety principles, including patient mobilisation and handling, infection control, basic first aid and emergency procedures.
HD05: Ability to safely administer drugs and other therapies.
Con01: Understand and apply the theoretical and methodological foundations and principles of nursing.
Con02: Understand the ethical and deontological code of Spanish nursing, comprehending the ethical implications of health in a changing global context.
Con03: Understand the principles of health and social care financing and make appropriate use of available resources.
Con04: Understand healthcare information systems.
Con05: Understand strategies for adopting comfort and symptom management measures, aimed at patients and families, in the application of palliative care that contributes to alleviating the situation of advanced and terminal patients.
Con06: Understand and identify the structure and function of the human body. Understand the molecular and physiological bases of cells and tissues.
Con07: Understand the use and indication of healthcare products related to nursing care.
Con08: Know the different groups of drugs, the principles of their authorisation, use and indication, and their mechanisms of action.
Con09: Know and assess the nutritional needs of healthy people and those with health problems throughout the life cycle, in order to promote and reinforce healthy eating habits. Identify nutrients and the foods in which they are found. Identify the most prevalent nutritional problems and select appropriate dietary recommendations.
Con10: Understand the pathophysiological processes and their manifestations, as well as the risk factors that determine health and disease states at different stages of the life cycle.
Con11: Understand and identify the psychological and physical problems resulting from gender-based violence in order to train students in the prevention, early detection, care, and rehabilitation of victims of this form of violence.
Con12: Identify, integrate, and relate the concept of health and care from a historical perspective in order to understand the evolution of nursing care.
Con13: Understand, from an ontological and epistemological perspective, the evolution of the central concepts that shape the discipline of nursing, as well as the most relevant theoretical models, applying scientific methodology in the care process and developing the corresponding care plans.
Con14: Know and apply the principles that underpin comprehensive nursing care.
Con15: Understand adult health disorders, identifying the manifestations that appear in their different phases. Identify the care needs arising from health problems. Analyse the data collected in the assessment, prioritise the adult patient's problems, establish and implement the care plan and carry out its evaluation.
Con16: Understand the specific aspects of newborn care. Identify the characteristics of the different stages of childhood and adolescence and the factors that determine normal growth and development patterns. Understand the most common health problems in childhood and identify their symptoms.
Con17: Understand the changes associated with the ageing process and their impact on health. Identify the structural, functional, psychological and lifestyle changes associated with the ageing process.
Con18. Understand the most common health problems in older people. Select care interventions aimed at treating or preventing health problems and adapting to daily life through local resources and support for the elderly.
Con19: Understand the Spanish healthcare system. Identify the characteristics of the management function of nursing services and care management. Understand and be able to apply group management techniques.
Con20: Understand the applicable legislation and the code of ethics and professional conduct for Spanish nursing, inspired by the European code of ethics and professional conduct for nursing.
Con21: Understand the most relevant mental health problems at different stages of the life cycle, providing comprehensive and effective care in the field of nursing.
Con22: Understand palliative care and pain management in order to provide care that alleviates the suffering of patients with advanced and terminal illnesses.
Student mobility is regulated by the ‘Regulamento de Intercambios Interuniversitarios’ approved by the Consello de Goberno da USC on 6 February 2008 and published in the Diario Oficial de Galicia on 26 March (http://www.usc.es/estaticos/normativa/pdf/regulinterinterunivest08.pdf).
Its planning and management is carried out by the Mobility Office, in coordination with the Faculty through the ‘Unidad de Apoyo a la Gestión de Centros y Departamentos’ (UAGCD) and the Academic Mobility Officer.
A total of 84 credits are programmed as mandatory, distributed in the subjects Tutored Practices I, II, III, IV, V and VI, according to planning criteria and mechanisms to guarantee quality and the most appropriate use by the students.
A graduate in Nursing is a professional trained to provide care in Primary Care, Specialised Care and to perform administrative and management functions in health and social care nursing services, teaching and research, both in our country, in the European Union and in other countries around the world, following the corresponding accreditation in accordance with established agreements.
This degree qualifies graduates to practise professionally in the key sector of public and private healthcare. Within the sector, the nursing profession is experiencing growth in its care, management and academic (teaching and research) competencies.
In the field of care, graduates have the scientific and human preparation to assess, identify, act on and evaluate the health and care needs of healthy or sick people, their families and the community. In addition, a degree in Nursing is a necessary requirement for access to any of the nursing specialities regulated by Royal Decree 450/2005 of 22 April.
Graduates in Nursing have skills that enable them to perform administrative and management functions in nursing services in positions and roles related to health service planning. Teaching and research are also two areas in which they can work, with access to the official systems that regulate the development of teaching careers at secondary and university levels, as well as research careers. Holding a degree in Nursing allows access to postgraduate training and doctoral studies.
Undergraduate students must complete and present a paper demonstrating the competencies acquired during the four years of study. It will be offered in the last four-month period of the study plan.