Student profile
Type of Degree
Students should possess good interpersonal and communication skills together with a positive approach to team work. They should be creative, interested in science and observant. Students will need to be balanced, responsible and dexterous, with a capacity for reflection and constructive criticism.
This is an officially recognised University Degree, valid throughout the European Higher Education Area.
WORLD HERITAGE
This Degree complies with European Higher Education Area requirements
Career opportunities Nursing graduates are equipped for professional nursing practice providing general nursing care in hospitals, public and private clinics, Primary Health Care Centres and other centres and institutions providing health care such as old people’s homes, care centres for the disabled, spas, schools, penal institutions and military organisations, etc. Graduates can go on to study established Nursing specialities such as Psychiatric Nursing and Obstetrics and Gynaecology Nursing (Midwifery), or more recently approved specialities such as Paediatric Nursing, Geriatric Nursing, Workplace Nursing, Family and Community Nursing and Medical-Surgical Nursing. Career opportunities also include teaching and management.
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Course contents
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The discipline we know today as Nursing is the result of the evolution within society of a basic activity: providing care. The nursing care approach considers the person as an integrated whole in all respects, including biological, psychological, spiritual and social dimensions, and professional practice includes the promotion and protection of health, disease prevention, health recovery, rehabilitation and social reintegration. As the core of the discipline of Nursing, care also includes teaching, managing health resources and research, in addition to direct provision of care to individuals, families and the community.
SCHOOL OF NURSING AND PHYSIOTHERAPY
CAMPUS UNIVERSITARIO
INFORMATION CENTRE www.uah.es ciu@uah.es
Bachelor’s Degree in:
Nursing
Access to postgraduate studies This course provides access to officially recognised Master’s Degree courses and other postgraduate studies, and to Specialist Nursing Training Programmes. Overall credit distribution SUBJECT TYPE
ECTS
Basic Training (B)
60
Obligatory (Ob)
60
Optional (Opt)
30
External Practical Training (clinical practice) (Ob)
78
Bachelor’s Degree Final Project (Ob)
12
TOTAL CREDITS
240
STUDY PLAN
COURSE ORGANISATION AND CONTENTS
FIRST YEAR First semester
Type
ECTS
Second semester
Type
ECTS
Human Anatomy and Biology (both semesters)
B
6
Human Anatomy and Biology (both semesters)
B
6
Biochemistry
B
6
Statistics and Introduction to Nursing Research
B
6
Human Physiology
B
9
Physiopathology
B
6
Applied Psycho-Social Sciences and Communication
B
9
Theoretical and Methodological Bases of Nursing
Ob
6
Total ECTS
30
Cross-Disciplinary Skills I
Opt
6
Total ECTS
30
SECOND YEAR First semester
Type
ECTS
Second semester
Type
ECTS
Pharmacology
B
6
Clinical Practice II
Ob
12
Nutrition and Dietetics
B
6
Adult clinical nursing. Acute and Emergency Conditions
Ob
6
Basic Health Care of the Individual, the Family and the Group
Ob
6
Community Health and Nursing Organisation in the Community
Ob
6
Cross-Disciplinary Skills II
Opt
6
Total ECTS
30
General Procedures in Clinical Nursing
Ob
6
Clinical Practice I
Ob
6
Total ECTS
30
Type
ECTS
Second semester
Type
ECTS
Clinical Nursing Care of Children, Adolescents and the Elderly
Ob
6
General Practicum I
Ob
18
Nursing Care in Human Development from a Gender Perspective
Ob
6
Adult Clinical Nursing. Chronic, Advanced and Terminal Processes
Ob
6
Managing Nursing Services: Legislation and Professional Conduct
Ob
6
Tools for Community Nursing Care
Ob
6
Cross-Disciplinary Skills III
Opt
6
Optional 1
Opt
6
Total ECTS
30
Total ECTS
30
Type
ECTS
THIRD YEAR First semester
FOURTH YEAR First semester General Practicum II
Type
ECTS
Ob
30
Second semester Optional 2
Opt
6
Specific Practicum
Ob
12
Bachelor’s Degree Final Project Total ECTS
30
TOTAL ECTS CREDITS: 240 B: Basic Training; Ob: Obligatory; Opt: Optional
Ob
12
Total ECTS
30
Optional tracks are structured around specialisations which consist of two optional subjects worth 6 ECTS each and the Specific Practicum worth 12 ECTS. These specialisations are aimed at offering students a specialised training in one of the one of the areas of general nursing and at needs arising as a result of new and growing social demands.
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Currently, the Degree in Nursing qualifies its graduates for entry onto the following postgraduate courses: w Expert Course in Community Nursing. Distance lear-
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ning in collaboration with IDER, S.L. Expert Course in Work-Related Accident Nursing. Studies in collaboration with ASEPEYO. Master’s Degree in Healthcare Sciences. Master’s Degree in Self-Knowledge, Sexuality and Relationships in Reencounter Therapy. Master’s Degree in Humanistic Counselling for Children and Adolescents. Master’s Degree in Integrated Humanistic Counselling.