Competencies

• To be able, in the field of nursing, to provide technical and professional healthcare 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 ethical standards.
• Plan and provide nursing care for individuals, families, or groups, focused on health outcomes and evaluating their impact through clinical and healthcare practice guidelines that describe the processes by which a health problem is diagnosed, treated, or cared for.
• Know and apply the theoretical and methodological foundations and principles of nursing.
• Understand a person's interactive behavior based on gender, group, or community, within their social and multicultural context.
• Design care systems for individuals, families, or groups, evaluating their impact and making appropriate modifications.
• Base nursing interventions on scientific evidence and available resources.
• Understanding 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 the right to privacy through confidentiality and professional secrecy.
• Promote and respect the right to participation, information, autonomy, and informed consent in decision-making among those cared for, in accordance with their experience with their health-illness process.
• Promote healthy lifestyles and self-care, supporting the maintenance of preventive and therapeutic behaviors.
• Protect the health and well-being of the individuals, families, or groups served, ensuring their safety.
• Establish effective communication with patients, family, social groups and peers and promote health education.
• To understand the ethical and deontological code of Spanish nursing, understanding the ethical implications of health in the changing global context.
• Understand the principles of health and social-health financing and make appropriate use of available resources.
• Establish evaluation mechanisms, considering scientific-technical and quality aspects.
• Working with the team of professionals as a basic unit in which the professionals and other staff of healthcare organizations are structured in a unidisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary manner.
• Know the health information systems.
• Provide nursing care based on comprehensive health care, which involves multi-professional cooperation, integrated processes, and continuity of care.
• To know the strategies for adopting comfort measures and symptom management, aimed at the patient and family, in the application of palliative care that contribute to alleviating the situation of advanced and terminally ill patients.

• (1) Ability to apply knowledge to practice
• (2) Teamwork
• (3) Motivation
• (4) Ethical commitment
• (5) Problem solving
• (6) Basic knowledge of the profession
• (7) Ability to learn
• (8) Concern for quality
• (9) Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team
• (10) Decision making
• (11) Ability to adapt to new situations
• (12) Basic general knowledge about the area of study
• (13) Capacity for criticism and self-criticism
• (14) Ability to communicate with people who are not experts in the subject matter
• (15) Interpersonal skills
• (16) Capacity for analysis and synthesis
• (17) Planning and time management
• (18) Oral and written communication in the mother tongue
• (19) Ability to work independently
• (20) Ability to generate new ideas (creativity)
• (21)Information management skills
• (22) Appreciation of diversity and multiculturalism
• (23) Initiative and entrepreneurial spirit
• (24) Research skills
• (25) Basic computer skills
• (26) Project design and management
• (27) Leadership
• (28) Knowledge of cultures and customs of other cultures
• (29) Skills to work in an international context
• (30) Knowledge of a second language

– Common basic training module.

• Know and identify the structure and function of the human body.
• Understand the molecular and physiological bases of cells and tissues.
• Know the use and indication of medical devices linked 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.
• Understand and assess the nutritional needs of healthy individuals and those with health problems throughout the life cycle, in order to promote and reinforce healthy eating habits.
• Identify nutrients and the foods they are found in.
• Identify the most prevalent nutritional problems and select appropriate dietary recommendations.
• Apply information and communication technologies and systems to healthcare.
• 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.
• Know and perform diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, including their basic interpretation, independently and/or as part of multidisciplinary teams.
• Identify people's psychosocial responses to different health situations (particularly illness and suffering), selecting appropriate actions to provide help 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.
• Recognize life-threatening situations and know how to perform basic and advanced life support maneuvers.
• To understand and identify the psychological and physical problems arising from gender-based violence in order to train students in prevention, early detection, care, and rehabilitation of victims of this form of violence.
• Ability to recognize worldviews, religious beliefs, and moral perspectives in patients that allow for appropriate delivery of care.
• Ability to exercise clinical judgment to ensure quality standards are met and practice is evidence-based.

– Nursing Sciences Module.

• Identify, integrate, and relate the concepts 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 core concepts that shape the discipline of nursing, as well as the most relevant theoretical models, applying scientific methodology to the care process and developing corresponding care plans.
• Apply the nursing process to provide and ensure the well-being and safety of the people cared for.
• Know and apply the principles that support comprehensive nursing care.
• Direct, evaluate, and provide comprehensive nursing care to the individual, family, and community.
• Ability to describe the fundamentals of primary health care and the activities to be developed to provide comprehensive nursing care to the individual, family, and community.
• Understand the role, activities, and cooperative attitude that professionals must develop within a Primary Health Care team.
• Promote the participation of individuals, families, and groups in their health-illness process.
• Identify health-related factors and environmental problems to care for people in health and illness as members of a community.
• Identify and analyze the influence of internal and external factors on the health level of individuals and groups.
• Apply the methods and procedures necessary in your field to identify the most relevant health problems in a community.
• Analyze 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.
• Know the health disorders of adults, identifying the manifestations that appear in their different phases
• Identify care needs arising from health problems.
• Analyze the data collected during the assessment, prioritize the adult patient's problems, establish and execute the care plan, and conduct its evaluation.
• Perform nursing care techniques and procedures, establishing a therapeutic relationship with patients and their families.
• Act on patients in critical, urgent and/or emergent situations
• Select interventions aimed at treating or preventing problems arising from health deviations.
• Have a cooperative attitude with the different team members.
• Identify the characteristics of women at different stages of the reproductive cycle and menopause, as well as the changes that may occur, providing the necessary care at each stage.
• Provide general care during pregnancy to facilitate the adaptation of women and newborns to new demands and prevent complications.
• Attending births in urgent situations
• Know the specific aspects of newborn care.
• Identify the characteristics of the different stages of childhood and adolescence and the factors that determine the normal pattern of growth and development.
• Know the most common health problems in childhood and identify their manifestations.
• Analyze the child's assessment data, identifying nursing problems and complications that may arise.
• Apply techniques that integrate nursing care, establishing a therapeutic relationship with children and their caregivers.
• 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.
• Understand the changes associated with the aging process and its impact on health.
• Identify the structural, functional, psychological and lifestyle changes associated with the aging process.
• Learn about the most common health problems in older people.
• Select care interventions aimed at treating or preventing health problems and their adaptation to daily life through local resources and support for the elderly person.
• Learn about the Spanish Health System.
• Identify the characteristics of the management function of nursing services and care management.
• Know and be able to apply group management techniques.
• To understand the applicable legislation and the code of ethics and deontology of Spanish nursing, inspired by the European code of ethics and deontology of nursing.
• Provide care, guaranteeing the patient's and family's right to dignity, privacy, confidentiality, and decision-making capacity.
• Individualize care considering age, gender, cultural differences, ethnic group, beliefs and values.
• To understand the most relevant mental health problems at different stages of the life cycle, providing comprehensive and effective care within the nursing field.
• Understand palliative care and pain management to provide care that alleviates the situation of advanced and terminally ill patients.
• Ability to accept responsibility for one's own learning and professional development, using assessment as a means to reflect and improve performance and enhance the quality of services provided.

– Supervised Internship and Final Degree Project Module:

• Incorporate professional values, healthcare communication skills, clinical reasoning, clinical management, and critical judgment.
• Address the most relevant health problems.
• Present and defend, before a University Tribunal, a final degree project, consisting of an exercise in integrating the training content received and the skills acquired.
• Ability to assess risk and actively promote the well-being and safety of all people in the work environment (including themselves)
• Ability to critically use care assessment and audit tools according to relevant quality standards.
• Within the clinical context, ability to educate, facilitate, supervise, and support healthcare students and social care workers.