Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

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Documentation Containing Information Related to the Official Nature of the Degree
Quality Management System
Composition of the Monitoring Committee
Results for Students of the Degree: Success Rates and Indicators

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The main academic regulations that govern the Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Academic Regulations for the Bachelor's Degrees in the "San Juan de Dios" University School of Nursing and Physical Therapy
Admission Regulations
Permanence Regulations
Credit Recognition Regulations

Other regularions

Act 44/2003, of 21 November, regarding the exercise of healthcare professions
ORDER CIN/2134/2008, of 3 July, establishing the requirements for verification of official University titles required to work as a Nurse

GENERAL COMPETENCIES

Ability to analyze and synthesize.
Ability to apply theory to practice.
Planning and time management.
Basic general knowledge of the field of study.
Basic knowledge of the profession.
Oral and written communication skills in the native language.
Knowledge of a second language.
Basic computational skills.
Research skills.
Learning ability.
Information management skills (search and analysis).
Critical and self-critical skills.
Ability to adapt to new situations.
Ability to generate new ideas (creativity).
Problem solving.
Decision-making.
Teamwork.
Interpersonal skills.
Leadership.
Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team.
Ability to communicate with laypersons.
Appreciation of diversity and multiculturalism.
Ability to work in a global context.
Knowledge of other cultures and their habits.
Ability to work with autonomy.
Project design and management.
Initiative and entrepreneurial spirit.
Ethical commitment.
Concern for quality.
Motivation.

SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES

Ability to work within a professional, ethical environment, surrounded by laws and regulatory codes, recognizing and responding to moral or ethical issues and dilemmas arising on a daily basis.
Ability to work with a holistic, tolerant approach, without prejudices, being careful and sensitive, ensuring that no right, belief or wish of the different individuals or groups is compromised.
Ability to educate, facilitate, support and promote health, well-being and comfort in those populations, communities, groups and individuals whose lives are affected by bad health, suffering, disease, inability or death.
Ability to recognize the diverse roles, responsibilities and functions of a nurse.
Ability to adapt their own role with the purpose of adequately responding to the population or patients' needs. Whenever it may be appropriate and needed, being able to challenge the systems in force, in order to cover the population and patients' needs.
Ability to accept responsibility for your own learning and professional development, using assessment as the means to reflect and improve your work, as well as to increase the quality of the services provided.
Ability to perform thorough, systematic assessments using the proper tools and frameworks for any given patient, taking into consideration the relevant physical, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual and environmental factors.
Ability to identify and understand normal or changing signs of the patient's health-bad health, suffering, inability (assessment and diagnosis).
Ability to respond to the patient's needs by planning, providing services, and assessing the most appropriate individualized health care programs together with the patient, their carers and families, and other social and health workers.
Ability to question, assess, understand and summarize, using a critical approach, a range of information and data sources, in order to facilitate the patient's choice.
Ability to assert clinical judgments in order to ensure all practice is evidence-based and that quality standards are met.
Ability to maintain the patient's privacy, confidentiality and dignity (using the skills...).
Ability to put into practice health and safety principles, including patient handling and mobility, infection control, basic first aid and emergency procedures (using the skills...).
Ability to safely prescribe drugs and other therapies (using the skills...).
Ability to take into consideration all the emotional, physical and personal care, including satisfying any comfort, nutrition and personal hygiene needs, while making it possible to maintain daily activities (using the skills...).
Ability to respond to personal needs during the life cycle, and during health and disease experiences. For example, pain, vital decisions, disability or during the impending death process (using the skills...).
Ability to notify, educate and supervise patients, carers, and families (using the skills...).
Relevant knowledge on nursing theories and nursing practice and the ability to apply it.
Relevant knowledge on basic sciences and life sciences and the ability to apply it.
Relevant knowledge on social, behavioral and health sciences, and the ability to apply it.
Relevant knowledge on ethics, law and humanities and the ability to apply it.
Relevant knowledge on technology and computers, and the ability to apply it in the field of health care.
Relevant knowledge on national and international politics and the ability to apply it.
Relevant knowledge on problem solving and decision making and the ability to apply it.
Relevant knowledge on research and information principles and the ability to apply it.
Ability to communicate effectively (including the use of technology): with patients, families and social groups, including those with communication difficulties.
Ability to allow for patients and their carers to express their concerns and interests, and to be able to respond adequately to them. For example, emotionally, socially, psychologically, spiritually or physically.
Ability to appropriately represent the patient's thoughts and to take action in order to avoid abuse.
Ability to suitably use counseling skills (communication techniques intended to promote patient's well-being).
Ability to identify and treat challenging behaviors.
Ability to recognize anxiety, stress and depression.
Ability to provide emotional support and to identify at which point a specialist's advice or any other intervention is necessary.
Ability to notify, record, document and refer care using suitable technology.
Ability to realize that the patient's well-being is achieved by combining resources and actions of social and health care team members.
Ability to manage and coordinate a team, appropriately delegating care.
Ability to work in a collaborative manner, maintaining effective communication with all the support staff in order to prioritize and efficiently manage time, all while meeting quality standards.
Ability to assess the risks and actively promote the safety and well-being of all the people involved in the work environment (including him/herself).
Making critical use of the health care assessment and auditing tools, in accordance with the relevant quality standards.
Within a clinical context, the ability to educate, facilitate, supervise and support health care students, and social and health workers.
Be aware of the social and health care financing principles and thus efficiently use the resources available.

Graduate Profile:

Graduates on the Bachelor's Degree in Nursing are professionals with solid training combining scientific and humanistic knowledge with a humanizing attitude towards assistance, which enables them to provide comprehensive care for individuals, families and communities, and to easily adapt to the present and future health demands of society in this field.

The Bachelor's Degree in Nursing enables the student to access further training development through Postgraduate Programs, both those consisting of official university studies (master's degrees and doctorates) and those leading to the Specialist Nurse degree. Currently, the School offers the Official Master's Degree in Palliative Care.

This official degree program enables students to carry out the the regulated profession of "Nurses responsible for general care"

Within this competence framework, their professional career options are oriented towards the following areas:

Public and private hospitals.
Primary care and outpatient specialized care centers.
Outpatient emergency service.
Retirement homes and other social health care services.
Work and school health services, and alike.
Teaching and research centers.
Nursing services management and organization.

Structure:
The Bachelor's Degree in Nursing is studied over a four-year cycle, with a total of 240 ECTS (60 per year).

The Bachelor's Degree is part of the field of knowledge of Health Sciences.

The curriculum, structured over four academic years, includes basic training, Nursing Science specific training modules with an approach to the knowledge needs relating to the specific professional profile (including practice placements from the first year right up until completion of the Degree), and a final end-of-course project.

Timetables

Exams

General Academic Calendar of the University

Credits:
240 ECTS

As an added value, the following two University private degrees have been designed:

Diploma in Communication Skills and Foreign Language Studies: specifically intended for the training of graduates in Nursery of Comillas, it offers the possibility to study abroad at foreign Universities during their training, while facilitating their future transition into the labour market of English-speaking countries, as well as access to texts of virtually all publications of their area of knowledge.

Diploma in Professional and Communication Personal Skills of the "San Juan de Dios" School of Nursing and Physical Therapy: its design allows focusing on areas of special importance for the personal and professional development of the student, in order to support the strengthening of their comprehensive training.