Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500891 Nursing | OB | 3 | 2 |
In order to enrol in Practicum III, students must have:
Coherently it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for every Student to have passed every subject from Practicums I and II.
Important: It is not possible to participate in two practicums simultaneously.
Students will be committed to preserving confidentiality and professional secrecy regarding the data they may get access to when learning about nursing services. They also commit to having an ethical al professional attitude in every single action. In that sense, whoever enrols in this subject also commits to apply the “Nursing Practicum regulations” and the “Behaviour recommendations for the Faculty of Medicine Students”. These documents are available through the Faculty of Medicine website.
It is mandatory to own a Certificate of Sexual Crimes before initiating the practicum. You will find information on how to obtain it on the following link: https://web.gencat.cat/ca/tramits/que-cal-fer-si/vull-obtenir-el-certificat-de-delictes-de-naturalesa-sexual. Some practicum centres will not authorize the start of the practicum if the certificate is not submitted on time. Carrying out this task is the student’s responsibility.
GENERAL OBJECTIVE
• Practicum V will allow the Student to integrate and apply the contents acquired in different subjects, incorporating new knowledge, skills and attitudes through the real contact with the nursing profession.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
• Go in depth in the cares initiated in Practicum V, those that are part of the day-to-day life of a nurse and initiate yourselves in those complex cares that are carried out through nursing services.
• Incorporate the nursing process of attention as scientific methodology.
• Develop the dimensions of the collaborative and autonomous roles.
• Offer nursing care adapted to Medical needs, guaranteeing quality nursing care, directed to the patient and the family with an integral vision that contemplated the biological, psychological and social need of the patients.
• Develop Communications skills with the patient, its family and the working team
The contents of this practicum are formed by a combination of the different subjects taught through the first and second year. During the practicum students will have to select the necessary contents in order to identify needs and solve problems of the patients that are cared for during the practicum under the watch of a nurse. Here are some of those contents highlighted:
Clinical practicum (PEXT):
The clinical practicum gives the students an opportunity to develop knowledge, skills, attitudes and valued in a professional environment that is real and complex, always under the supervision of a teaching nurse.
They last approximately 9 weeks in a hospital service depending on their training needs and during which each Student will have a nurse of that unit assigned to watch and guide their learning process continually and individually.
You can access the shifts and timetables on the calendar published on the website. The timetables can be modified according to the unit needs.
Reflective Journal
It is a collection of those situations lived throughout the practicum that awakened emotions, wither positive or negative, and had an impact on the learning process. It must be submitted biweekly via Moodle.
Seminar (SEM):
Its objective is to apply the reflective practices to situations lived during the clinical experience. The seminars will take place in small Student groups, enlivened by an associated teacher of UAB.
The seminars last 2,5 hours and take place during the weeks programmed for the clinical practices period.
The seminars will take place in teaching centres linked to the subject: The UAB Campus in Bellaterra, Vall d’Hebron or Practicum Centres.
The transportation cost to get to the Medical centres will be covered by the Student.
IMPORTANT: These timetables can be modified depending on the teacher.
Clinical simulation (PSCA):
Go through a highly realistic simulation. This session will take place during the practicum period outside normal hours and does not compute with those hours assigned to the practicum.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Advanced Clinical Simulation Practice (PSCA) | 4 | 0.16 | 2, 3, 10, 9, 13, 7, 6, 35, 17, 22, 27, 15, 31, 38, 45, 44, 46, 55, 49, 16 |
SEMINARS (SEM) | 5 | 0.2 | 17, 28, 20, 27, 29, 41, 46 |
Type: Supervised | |||
EXTERNAL PRACTICES (PEXT) | 347.5 | 13.9 | 17, 28, 27, 29, 38, 41, 46, 25 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Preparation of written works / Reding of articles | 18.5 | 0.74 | 19, 27, 33 |
Assessment criteria
The final qualification of the subject is formed by the sum of the clinical practices mark, the one obtained on the seminar and the one obtained on the reflective journal with the following weighing:
- 60% formed by the clinical practices mark.
- 25% formed by the reflective journal mark.
- 15% formed by the seminar mark.
In order to pass the subject every area must be completed with a minimum mark of 5.
Attendance control:
Attendance sheet: Through the daily signing of this document, the nurse responsible for each Student will confirm the schedule of each day. This document will serve as proof of the number of practice hours.
The only person responsible for the document will be the student. It will have to be updated at all times, and the student will be responsible for its information being truthful. The document will be submitted to the nursing associate teacher at the end of the practicum and uploaded to the Moodle.
This document may be asked at any given time by those responsible for the subject.
It is mandatory to go through the whole practicum period programmed on the teaching calendar, no matter the schedule of the practicum.
Any interruption of assistance to the service is considered an absence. Those may be:
a) Justified absences in the following situations:
Family death.
Specialized medical visit.
Acute illness.
Driving test.
Official university test.
Official language test.
Proof of those events will be required, and the teacher will write about them on the follow-up sheet.
b) Non-justified absences:
Those that are not on the previous list and are not authorized by the subject coordination. The student will write about them on the follow-up sheet and will make up for those hours in however way the teacher finds convenient. At the end of the practicum 1 point will be subtracted from the final mark for every day of absence.
c) Strikes, demonstrations:
Taking into account the student’s rights, those students who want to take part in a strike will need to inform their teacher and the nursing service previously, as well as writing about it on the follow-up sheet. That day will be considered non retrievable.
d) Non-justified and non-notified absence:
It might entail failing the subject.
e) Lateness:
Being late more than 5 times during the practicum might entail failing the subject.
Absences must be communicated to the associate teacher as early on as possible and the practicum department so that the learning process stays unaffected and new days can be chosen the make up for the lost hours.
Attendance to the simulation is mandatory and cannot coincide with the schedule assigned to the practicum. Not attending this session will be penalized subtracting 1 point from the final mark.
Clinical practicum:
On-going assessment: Approximately trough half of the period, the associate nurse teacher, along with the nurse, will summarize the information obtained up to that point and will discuss it with each student. The fulfilment of the objectives, strengths and weaknesses and recommendations will be addressed in this assessment. The student will self-assess and discuss it with the teacher as well.
Final assessment: When the clinical practicum period is finished, the nurse will submit a final report regarding the competences acquired by the students. The student will self-assess and discuss it with the teacher as well.
*Attendance is mandatory in every shift that is programmed. Those absences that are not justified will be made up for during the period programmed for the clinical practicum when authorized by the teacher responsible.
Seminars (SEM):
Participation and reflections derived from the writing of the reflective journal will be assessed in the context of the clinical practicum. Plurality of ideas, people and situations will be considered, as well as the ability to identify strategies to improve while learning.
Submitting the reflective journal biweekly and the seminar attendance are mandatory. Non-compliance will reflect poorly on the assessment.
Obtaining of the final qualification:
According to the assessment regulations, the qualifications will be the following:
Fail: <5
Pass: de 5 a 6,9
Remarkable: de 7 a 8,9
Excellent: >9
Honours: >9
According to the regulations of all degrees and masters of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, it will be considered “non-assessable” whoever can not submit enough evidence of assessment.
*It will be considered criteria for “non-assessment”:
Not achieving the number of hours established on this guide.
Not submitting the projects within the timings established by teachers.
NOTE:
Any sign of academic dishonesty, such as plagiarism of document manipulation, as well as any discriminatory, violent or disrespectful attitudes towards patients, teachers or co-workers will be elevated to the practicum commission, which will analyse the situation and act accordingly.
An assessment commission can be created at any given time in order to assess special situations that do not find an answer in this guide or in those documents published on the practicum website.
The final grade of the subject corresponds to the sum of the clinical practices mark (PEXT) andthe one obtained in the seminars case with the following weighting:
- 60% of the grade corresponds to clinical practice.
- 40% of the grade corresponds to clinical case seminars.
In order to pass the subject, you have to pass each one of the competent groups of the clinical practices and the works of the seminars with a minimum grade of 5.
Attendance control:
“Tracking sheet”: Through daily signing of this document, the responsible nurse from each student will confirm the scheduled followed during the student practice day.
The only responsible from this document is the student. It must be up to date and he or she will be responsible for its veracity.
The document will be handed to the teacher at the end of the practicum.
At any time this document can be required by the practicum responsible or the clinical associate teachers for its control
subject Clinics (PEXT):
continued and formative Appraisal along the period. Roughly at the half, the teacher associated nurse, together with the nurse, will do a digest of the information obtained until the moment and will comment it with the student. At this appraisal, of formative character, will work the level of attainment of the aims proposed, the strong points at excelling and the weak points at improving with the pertinent recommendations. In the same way, the student will do his autoavaluation and will comment it with the teacher
Appraisal finalist:
At finalising the period of clinical practices, the nurse will entertain a final report on the competences attained by the student. In the same way, at finalising the period the student will do his autoavaluation and will comment it with the nurse and the teacher associated nurse.
* The assistance is obligatory at the totality of the hours programmed and at theturn and schedule assigned.
Those assistive faults justified and the no justified, will haveto recover in the period of clinical practices programmed previous authorization of the responsible teacher and of the service of practices.
Seminaries of clinical cases (SCC):
continued and formative Appraisal along the sessions. It will assess the elaboration, presentation and discussion of those weekly activities required that they arise in the context of the clinical practice. It will value the foundation of the works, the evidences that sustented the contributions, the bibliography utilised and the fluid expression, coherent and suitable already was of oral form and written. Also it will take into account the capacity of work at group, the with regard to the plurality of ideas, persons and situations.
The realisation of works or cases is obligatory. The no presentation of any of them in the period established by the teacher negatively at the appraisal.
Appraisal finalist:
During the last week, the student will attach at the section of "Installments" of the room of the subject at it Moodle the corresponding activities at the seminaries of clinical cases (PAI and other works). The installment of these works is obligatory. The installment of these works is obligatory. Will have to draft tracking the norms established by the presentation of works.
* It will consider no handed,and therefore no avaluable, those documents that do not conform the criteria established by the coordinator of the subject.
* The assistance at the seminaries of clinical cases is obligatory. It will consider NO approved this section if the student does not assist in addition to a session.
Obtention of the final qualification:
According to the accord 4.4 of the Council of Government 17/11/2010 of the rule of appraisal, the qualifications will be
Suspense: <5
Approved: of 5 at 6,9
Notable: of 7 at 8,9
Excellent: >9
Tuition of honour: >9
NOTE:
Any sign of academic dishonesty, and now plagiarism or manipulation of documentsof appraisal, etc., or any discriminatory attitude, violent or irrespective to patients, professionals, partners/ and/or educational, will suppose the immediate suspense of the subject. All these situations will be elevated at the commission of practicum who will analyse it succeful and will establish a resolution at the respect.
On demand of the manager of the subject can constitute a commission configured at effect to value special situations, personal and/or extraordinary that do not find response at the if of this guide or at documents published at the web of the practicum. The commission of practicum by means of a resolution will give conclusive response and linking
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Evaluation during the practices at the center healthcare | 60% | 0 | 0 | 2, 3, 10, 9, 8, 12, 4, 13, 11, 7, 6, 5, 35, 17, 36, 28, 1, 18, 19, 22, 20, 24, 27, 15, 40, 31, 34, 30, 33, 32, 29, 39, 38, 41, 42, 45, 44, 43, 46, 48, 55, 52, 51, 53, 50, 54, 49, 16, 14, 25 |
Narrative records | 25% | 0 | 0 | 17, 28, 19, 20, 27, 21, 37, 38, 23, 41, 42, 46, 47, 26 |
Seminar | 15% | 0 | 0 | 17, 28, 1, 19, 27, 31, 30, 33, 41, 42, 44, 43 |
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