Educational guide 2024_25
Escola Universitaria de Enfermaría da Deputación Provincial de Pontevedra
Grado en Enfermería
 Training and Learning Results


Choose A Code Training and Learning Results
  A1 Students will have shown they have sufficient knowledge and understanding of an area of study, starting after completion of general secondary education, and normally reaching a level of proficiency that, being mostly based on advanced textbooks, will also include familiarity with some cutting-edge developments within the relevant field of study.
  A2 Students will be able to apply their knowledge and skills in their professional practice or vocation and they will show they have the required expertise through the construction and discussion of arguments and the resolution of problems within the relevant area of study.
  A3 Students will be able to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their field of study) that will allow them to have a reflection-based considered opinion on important issues of social, scientific and ethical nature.
  A4 Students will be able to present information, ideas, problems and solutions both to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
  A5 Students will acquire the learning skills that are required to pursue further studies with a high degree of independence.
Choose B Code Knowledge
  B1 To be able to provide nursing healthcare using the appropriate technical and professional methods and resources to meet patients’ needs, according to the state of development of scientific knowledge at each moment and to the quality and safety standards established by the relevant legal regulations and deontology codes.
  B2 To be able to plan and provide nursing care to patients, families and groups, oriented to achieving good health results, assessing their impact through guidelines for clinical and care practices that describe the processes through which a health condition must be diagnosed, treated and cared.
  B3 To be able to apply the fundamental technical and methodological principles of nursing.
  B4 To be able to understand the interactive behavior of the person according to their gender, group or community, within a multicultural social context.
  B5 To design care systems oriented to patients, families and groups, assessing their impact and introducing appropriate changes.
  B6 To apply nursing interventions according to scientific evidence and available resources.
  B7 To be able to understand patients without prejudices, taking on board their physical, psychological and social features, as autonomous, independent individuals, respecting their opinions, beliefs and values, while guaranteeing their right to intimacy, through professional confidentiality.
  B8 To promote and respect the right to participation, information, autonomy and informed consent in patients’ decision making, according to the way they experience their health-disease process.
  B9 To promote healthy lifestyles and self-care, supporting preventive and therapeutic behavior.
  B10 To protect the good health and wellbeing of patients, families and groups, guaranteeing their safety.
  B11 To be able to communicate effectively with patients, families, social groups and colleagues. To promote health education and information.
  B12 To apply the Spanish nursing code of ethics and deontology, understanding the ethical implications health has in a world context in continuous transformation.
  B13 To apply the principles of public healthcare financing and use the available resources responsibly.
  B14 To establish assessment mechanisms, bearing in mind scientific-technical and quality factors.
  B15 To be able to work with a team of professionals, which is the basic unit structuring intradisciplinary, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary care work, constituted by professionals and other members of staff from care organizations.
  B16 To be able to use the healthcare information systems.
  B17 To carry out nursing healthcare from a comprehensive healthcare perspective, which implies cooperation between professionals from several disciplines, integration of processes and continuity of care.
  B18 To use strategies conducive to adopting comfort measures and attention to symptoms, aimed at both patients and their families, in the application of palliative care that helps relieve pain in patients with advanced and/or terminal diseases.
Choose C Code Skill
  C1 To know and identify the structure and function of the human body. To understand the molecular and physiological bases of cells and tissues.
  C2 To know the use and indications of medical products related to nursing care.
  C3 To know the different groups of medicines, the principles of their authorization, use and indication, and their mechanisms of action.
  C4 Use of medicines, assessing their expected benefits and associated risks and/or effects deriving from their administration and consumption.
  C5 To know and assess the nutritional needs of healthy and unhealthy people throughout their life cycles, in order to promote and strengthen healthy eating habits.
  C6 To identify nutrients and the foodstuffs where they can be found.
  C7 To identify the most important nutritional problems and select appropriate diet recommendations.
  C8 To apply information and communication systems and technologies to healthcare.
  C9 To know the physio-pathological processes and their manifestations and the risk factors determining health and disease states in the different stages of the life cycle.
  C10 To identify people’s psychosocial responses when faced with different health situations (in particular, disease and suffering), choosing the appropriate actions to support them.
  C11 To establish an empathetic, respectful relationship with the patient and their family, according to the situation of the person, their health condition and its stage of development.
  C12 To use strategies and abilities conducive to an effective communication with patients, families and social groups, as well as the expression of their concerns and interests.
  C13 To recognize life-threatening situations and to be able to carry out basic and advanced life-support operations.
  C14 To know and identify psychological problems caused by gender violence, with the aim of preparing students for prevention, early detection, assistance and rehabilitation of victims of this kind of violence.
  C15 To identify, integrate and trace links between the concepts of health and care from a historical perspective, in order to understand the development of nursing care.
  C16 To understand, from an ontological and epistemological perspective, the development of the central constitutive concepts of the discipline of nursing, as well as the most important theoretical models, applying the scientific methodology in the process of care and developing the relevant care plans.
  C17 To implement the nursing process for the purpose of providing and guaranteeing patients’ wellbeing, safety and care quality.
  C18 To know and apply the principles underpinning comprehensive care in nursing.
  C19 To manage, assess and provide comprehensive nursing care to patients, families and communities.
  C20 Ability to describe the fundamentals of the primary level of healthcare and the activities that must be implemented in order to provide comprehensive nursing care to patients, families and communities.
  C21 To understand the function, activities and cooperative attitude professionals must develop in a Primary Healthcare team.
  C22 To encourage participation by patients, families and groups in the health-disease process.
  C23 To identify health-related factors and problems of the environment to provide care to people in health and disease situations as members of a community.
  C24 To identify and analyze the influence internal and external factors can have on the health standards of individuals and groups.
  C25 To apply the appropriate methods and procedures of the field to identify the most important health problems of a community.
  C26 To analyze statistical data from population surveys to identify possible causes of health problems.
  C27 To help educate, provide information and support for the good health and wellbeing of the members of the community, whose lives are affected by health conditions, risks, suffering, disease, disability or death.
  C28 To know the health conditions of adults, identifying the manifestations that appear at different stages of their lives.
  C29 To identify the care needs arising from health problems.
  C30 To analyze data collected at the moment of assessment, prioritize the problems of adult patients, design and implement the care plan and assess it.
  C31 To carry out techniques and procedures of nursing care while establishing a therapeutic relationship with patients and relatives.
  C32 To select interventions oriented towards treating and preventing problems arising from health conditions.
  C33 To display a cooperative attitude with the other members of the team.
  C34 To identify the characteristics of women in the different stages of the reproductive cycle and in the climacteric and the conditions that can arise, providing the necessary care at each stage.
  C35 To provide general care during the maternity process to facilitate the adaptation of women and newborn babies to the new demands and prevent complications.
  C36 To know the specific characteristics of the care of newborn babies. To identify the features of the different stages of childhood and adolescence and the factors determining the normal pattern of growth and development.
  C37 To know the most common health problems in childhood and identify their manifestations. To analyze the data from the assessment of the child and identify the nursing problems and complications that can arise.
  C38 To apply the techniques that are part of nursing care, establishing a therapeutic relationship with children and their caregivers.
  C39 To select those interventions oriented to both healthy and sick children, as well as those arising from the methods of diagnosis and treatment.
  C40 To be able to provide health education to parents and primary caregivers.
  C41 To understand the changes associated with the process of ageing and its consequences for health.
  C42 To identify the structural, functional, psychological and lifestyle changes associated with the process of ageing.
  C43 To know the most common health conditions in elderly people.
  C44 To select caring interventions oriented to treating and preventing health problems and to adapt to daily life through provision of proximity resources and support to elderly patients.
  C45 To know the Spanish Healthcare System.
  C46 To identify the characteristics of the managerial function of nursing services and the management of care.
  C47 To know and be able to apply techniques of group leadership.
  C48 To know the relevant legislation and the Spanish nursing code of ethics and deontology, based on the European nursing code of ethics and deontology.
  C49 To provide care, guaranteeing the rights to dignity, privacy, intimacy, confidentiality and the ability to make decisions of patients and families.
  C50 To provide personalized care, taking into consideration the age, gender, cultural differences, ethnic background, beliefs and values of patients.
  C51 To know the most important mental health conditions in the different stages of the life cycle, providing comprehensive, effective nursing care.
  C52 To know the procedures of palliative care and pain control to provide relieving care to patients with advanced or terminal diseases.
Choose D Code Competences
  D1 Analysis and synthesis skills.
  D2 Organization and planning skills.
  D3 Information-management skills.
  D4 Problem-resolution and decision-making skills.
  D5 Multidisciplinary, multilingual teamwork skills.
  D6 Interpersonal relations skills.
  D7 Critical-thinking skills.
  D8 Independent-learning skills.
  D9 Ability to adapt to new situations. Entrepreneurship skills. Creativity.
  D10 Striving for quality.
  D11 Awareness of environmental issues.
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