COMPETENCES OF THE DEGREE IN NURSING
CB1. Students have demonstrated possession and understanding of knowledge in an area of study that builds on the foundation of general secondary education and is usually at a level that, while relying on advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that involve knowledge from the cutting edge of their field of study.
CB2. Students are able to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the competences usually demonstrated through the development and defence of arguments and problem solving within their field of study.
CB3. Students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their field of study) in order to make judgements that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues.
CB4. Students are able to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
CB5. That students have developed those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.
CG1. Be able, in the field of nursing, to provide technical and professional health care appropriate to the health needs of the people they care for, in accordance with the state of development of scientific knowledge at any given time and the levels of quality and safety established in the applicable legal and deontological regulations.
GC2. Know how to plan and provide nursing care aimed at individuals, families or groups and oriented towards health outcomes, in order to assess its impact, through clinical and care practice guidelines, which describe the processes by which a health problem is diagnosed, treated or cared for.
CG3. Know how to apply the fundamentals and technical and methodological principles of nursing.
CG4. Be able to understand the interactive behaviour of the person according to his/her gender, group or community, within his/her social and multicultural context.
GC5. Design care systems aimed at individuals, families or groups, to evaluate their impact and to establish the appropriate modifications.
GC6. Apply nursing interventions based on scientific evidence and with the available means.
GC7. Know how to understand, without prejudice, people and consider their physical, psychological and social aspects as autonomous and independent individuals, to ensure respect for their opinions, beliefs and values, as well as guaranteeing the right to privacy, through confidentiality and professional secrecy.
GC8. Promote and respect the right to participation, information, autonomy and informed consent in the decision making of the people cared for, in accordance with the way in which they experience their health-illness process.
GC9. Encourage healthy lifestyles and self-care, to support the maintenance of preventive and therapeutic behaviours.
GC10. Protect the health and well-being of individuals, families or groups cared for, in order to guarantee their safety.
CG11. Know how to establish effective communication with patients, families, social groups and colleagues. Promote training and information for health.
GC12. Apply the Code of Ethics and Deontology of Spanish Nursing, to understand the ethical implications of health in a changing global context.
GC13. Apply the principles of health and social-health financing and make appropriate use of available resources.
GC14. Establish evaluation mechanisms to consider scientific-technical and quality aspects.
GC15. Being able to work with the team of professionals as a basic unit in which the professionals and other staff of the care organisations are structured, in a uni or multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary way.
GC16. Being able to use health information systems
GC17. Perform nursing care based on comprehensive health care, which involves multiprofessional cooperation, integration of processes and continuity of care.
GC18. Apply strategies to adopt comfort and symptom care measures aimed at the patient and his/her family in palliative care, which contribute to alleviating the situation of patients in cases of advanced and/or terminal illness.
CT1. Capacity for analysis and synthesis
TC2. Capacity for organisation and planning
TC3. Ability to manage information
TC4. Problem solving and decision making
TC5. Multidisciplinary and multilingual teamwork.
TC6. Interpersonal relationship skills
TC7. Critical reasoning
TC8. Autonomous learning
CT9. Adaptation to new situations. Initiative and entrepreneurial spirit. Creativity
CT10. Motivation for quality
CT11. Sensitivity towards environmental issues
CE1. Know and identify the structure and function of the human body. Understand the molecular and physiological bases of cells and tissues.
SC2. Knowing the use and indication of medical devices related to nursing care.
SC3. Knowing the different groups of drugs, the principles of their authorisation, use and indication, and their mechanisms of action.
SC4. Use medicines to assess the expected benefits and associated risks and/or the effects derived from their administration and consumption.
SC5. Knowing and assessing the nutritional needs of healthy people and people with health problems throughout the life cycle, to promote and reinforce healthy eating behaviour patterns
SC6. Identify the nutrients and the foods in which they are found.
SC7. Identify the most prevalent nutritional problems and select the appropriate dietary recommendations.
SC8. Apply health care information and communication technologies and systems.
SC9. Knowing the physiopathological processes, their manifestations and the risk factors that determine the states of health and illness in the different stages of the life cycle.
SC10. Identify the psychosocial responses of people in different health situations (in particular, illness and suffering), in order to select the appropriate actions to provide help.
SC11. Establish an empathic and respectful relationship with the patient and his/her family, in accordance with the situation of the person, his/her health problem and stage of development.
SC12. Use strategies and skills that allow for effective communication with patients, families and social groups, as well as the expression of their concerns and interests
SC13. Recognise life-threatening situations and know how to perform basic and advanced life support manoeuvres.
SC14. Knowing and identifying the psychological and physical problems derived from gender violence, in order to train students in the prevention, early detection, assistance and rehabilitation of the victims of this violence.
SC15. Identify, integrate and relate the concept of health and care from a historical perspective, in order to understand the evolution of nursing care.
SC16. Understand, from an ontological and epistemological perspective, the evolution of the central concepts that make up the discipline of nursing, as well as the most relevant theoretical models, in order to apply the scientific methodology in the process of caring, which allows for the development of the corresponding care plans.
CE17. Apply the nursing process to provide and guarantee well-being, quality and safety to the people cared for.
SC18. Know and apply the principles underpinning comprehensive nursing care.
SC19. Direct, assess and provide comprehensive nursing care to the individual, the family and the community.
SC20. 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.
SC21. Understand the function, the activities and the cooperative attitude that the professional has to develop in a Primary Health Care team.
SC22. Promote the participation of individuals, families and groups in the health-illness process.
SC23. Identify the factors related to health and the problems of the environment in order to attend to people in situations of health and illness as members of a community.
SC24. Identify and analyse the influence of internal and external factors on the level of health of individuals and groups.
SC25. Apply the necessary methods and procedures in their field, in order to identify the most relevant health problems in a community.SC26. Analyse the statistical data referred to population studies in order to identify the possible causes of health problems.SC27. Educate and inform, facilitate and support the health and well-being of the members of the community whose lives are affected by health problems, risk, suffering, illness, disability or death.SC28. Knowing the health alterations of adults, in order to identify the manifestations that appear in their different phases.SC29. Identify the care needs derived from health problems.SC30. Analyse the data collected in the assessment, prioritise the problems of the adult patient, establish and implement the care plan and carry out its evaluationSC31. Perform nursing care techniques and procedures to establish a therapeutic relationship with patients and their relatives.SC32. Select the interventions aimed at treating or preventing the problems derived from health deviationsSC33. Have a cooperative attitude with the different members of the team.
SC34. Identify the characteristics of women in the different stages of the reproductive cycle, in the climacteric and in the alterations that may occur, in order to provide the necessary care at each stage.
SC35. Apply general care during the maternity process, in order to facilitate the adaptation of women and newborns to the new demands and prevent complications
SC36. Know the specific aspects of the care of the newborn. Identify the characteristics of the different stages of childhood and adolescence, and the factors that condition the normal pattern of growth and development.
SC37. Know the most frequent health problems in childhood and identify their manifestations. Analyse the assessment data of the child, in order to identify the nursing problems and complications that may arise.
CE38. Apply the techniques that integrate nursing care, in order to establish a therapeutic relationship with children and their carers.
CE39. Select the interventions aimed at the healthy child and the sick person, as well as those derived from the methods of diagnosis and treatment.
CE40. Be able to provide training and information for health to the mother or father or primary carers
SC41. Understand the changes associated with the ageing process and their repercussions on health.
SC42. Identify the structural, functional, psychological and lifestyle modifications associated with the process of ageing
SC43. Knowing the most frequent health problems in older people
SC44. Select the caregiving interventions, aimed at treating or preventing health problems and their adaptation to daily life, by means of proximity resources and support to the elderly person.
SC45. Knowing the Spanish Health System
SC46. Identify the characteristics of the managerial function of nursing services and care management
SC47. Knowing and being able to apply group management techniques.
SC48. Know the applicable legislation and the Code of Ethics and Deontology of Spanish Nursing, which is inspired by the European Code of Ethics and Deontology of Nursing.
SC49. Provide care to guarantee the right to dignity, privacy, intimacy, confidentiality and decision-making capacity of the patient and his/her family.
SD50. Individualise care taking into account age, gender, cultural differences, ethnic group, beliefs and values
SC51. Knowing the most relevant mental health problems in the different stages of the life cycle, in order to provide comprehensive and effective care in the nursing field
SC52. Knowing palliative care and pain control, in order to provide care that alleviates the situation of the patient with advanced and/or terminal illness.
