Competences (Nursing Degree)

1.- GENERAL COMPETENCES (ORDER CIN / 2134/2008).

1.1.- Being capable, in the field of nursing, of providing technical and professional health care appropriate to the health needs of the people they serve, in accordance with the state of development of scientific knowledge of each moment and with the levels of quality and safety that are established in the applicable legal and ethical standards.
1.2.- Plan and provide nursing care aimed at individuals, families or groups, oriented towards health results, evaluating their impact, through clinical and care practice guidelines, which describe the processes by which it is diagnosed, treated or take care of a health problem.
1.3.- Know and apply the foundations and theoretical and methodological principles of nursing.
1.4.- Understand the interactive behavior of the person based on gender, group or community, within their social and multicultural context.
1.5.- Design care systems aimed at individuals, families or groups, evaluating their impact and establishing the appropriate modifications.
1.6.- Base nursing interventions on scientific evidence and available means.
1.7.- Understand people without prejudice, considering their physical, psychological and social aspects, as autonomous and independent individuals, ensuring respect for their opinions, beliefs and values, guaranteeing the right to privacy, through confidentiality and professional secrecy.
1.8.- Promote and respect the right of participation, information, autonomy and informed consent in the decision-making of the people cared for, in accordance with the way they experience their health-disease process.
1.9.- Promote healthy lifestyles, self-care, supporting the maintenance of preventive and therapeutic behaviors.
1.10.- Protect the health and well-being of the people, family or groups served, guaranteeing their safety.
1.11.- Establish effective communication with patients, family, social groups and colleagues and promote health education.
1.12.- Know the ethical and deontological code of Spanish nursing, understanding the ethical implications of health in a changing world context.
1.13.- Know the principles of health and social health financing and use the available resources properly.
1.14.- Establish evaluation mechanisms, considering the scientific-technical and quality aspects.
1.15.- Work with the team of professionals as a basic unit in which the professionals and other personnel of the healthcare organizations are structured in a uni or multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary way.
1.16.- Know the health information systems.
1.17.- Carry out nursing care based on comprehensive health care, which involves multiprofessional cooperation, integration of processes and continuity of care.
1.18.-Know the strategies to adopt measures of comfort and attention to symptoms, aimed at the patient and family, in the application of palliative care that helps to alleviate the situation of advanced and terminal patients. (ORDER CIN / 2134/2008).

 

 

2.- TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCES (White Book of the Nursing Degree Title. (ANECA 2004).

2.1.- Ability to apply knowledge in practice.
2.2.- Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team.
2.3.- Ability to learn.
2.4.- Ability to adapt to new situations.
2.5.- Critical and self-critical capacity.
2.6.- Ability to communicate with non-experts in the field.
2.7.- Analysis and synthesis capacity.
2.8.- Ability to generate new ideas (creativity).
2.9.- Planning and time management.
2.10.- Oral and written communication in the mother tongue.
2.11.- Project design and management.
2.14.- Motivation.
2.15.- Ethical commitment.
2.16.- Initiative and entrepreneurial spirit.
2.17.- Interpersonal skills.
2.18.- Research skills.
2.19.- Troubleshooting.
2.20.- Concern for quality.
2.21.- Decision making.
2.22.- Appreciation of diversity and multiculturalism.
2.23.- Basic computer management skills.
2.24.- Ability to work in an international context.
2.25.- Ability to work autonomously.
2.26.- Information management skills (ability to search and analyze information from various sources).
2.27.- Basic knowledge of the profession.
2.28.- Basic general knowledge about the study area.
2.29.- Knowledge of cultures and customs of other cultures.
2.30.- Promote and guarantee respect for Human Rights and the principles of universal accessibility, equality, non-discrimination and democratic values ​​and the culture of peace.

3.- SPECIFIC COMPETENCES (ORDER CIN / 2134/2008).

3.1.- Know and identify the structure and function of the human body. Understand the molecular and physiological bases of cells and tissues. Units of competences:
3.1.1.- Know and identify the structure and function of the human body.
3.1.2.- Understand the molecular and physiological bases of cells and tissues.
3.2.- Know the use and indication of health products related to nursing care.
3.3.- Know the different groups of drugs, the principles of their authorization, use and indication, and their mechanisms of action. Competition Units:
3.3.1.- Know the different groups of drugs in general, the principles of their authorization, use and indication, and their mechanisms of action.
3.3.2.- Know the different groups of drugs that are the object of the nursing prescription, the principles of their authorization, use and indication, and the mechanisms of their action.
3.4.- Use of medicines, evaluating the expected benefits and associated risks and / or effects derived from their administration and consumption. Units of competence:
3.4.1.- Use of drugs in general, evaluating the expected benefits and associated risks and / or effects derived from their administration and consumption.
3.4.2.- Use of the drugs that are the object of the nurse prescription, evaluating the expected benefits and the associated risks and / or effects derived from their administration and consumption.
3.5.- Know and assess the nutritional needs of healthy people and people with health problems throughout the life cycle, to promote and reinforce healthy eating patterns. Identify the nutrients and the foods in which they are found. Identify the most prevalent nutritional problems and select the appropriate dietary recommendations.
3.5.1.- Know and assess the nutritional needs of healthy people and people with health problems throughout the life cycle, to promote and reinforce healthy eating behavior guidelines.
3.5.2.- Identify the nutrients and the foods in which they are found.
3.5.3.- Identify the most prevalent nutritional problems and select the appropriate dietary recommendations.
3.5.4.- Apply health care information and communication technologies and systems.
3.6.- Apply information and communication technologies and systems for health care.
3.7.- Know the pathophysiological processes and their manifestations and the risk factors that determine the states of health and disease in the different stages of the life cycle.
3.8.- Identify the psychosocial responses of people to different health situations (in particular, illness and suffering), selecting the appropriate actions to provide help in them. Establish an empathic and respectful relationship with the patient and family, according to the person's situation, health problem and stage of development. Use strategies and skills that allow effective communication with patients, families and social groups, as well as the expression of their concerns and interests.
3.9.- Recognize life-threatening situations and know how to execute basic and advanced life support maneuvers. Units of competences:
3.9.1.- Recognize life-threatening situations.
3.9.2.- Know how to execute basic and advanced life support maneuvers.
3.9.3.- Ability to attend traffic accidents and Advanced Life Support to Trauma (SVAT).
3.9.4.- Ability to respond adequately to a situation of multiple victims.
3.9.5.- Ability to develop basic elements of humanitarian aid programs.
3.10.- Know and identify the psychological and physical problems derived from gender violence to train the student in the prevention, early detection, assistance, and rehabilitation of the victims of this form of violence. Units of competence:
3.10.1.- Know and identify the psychological and physical problems derived from gender violence.
3.10.2.- Capacity for prevention, early detection, assistance, and rehabilitation of victims of this form of violence.
3.11.- Identify, integrate and relate the concept of health and care, from a historical perspective, to understand the evolution of nursing care.
3.12.- Understand, from an ontological and epistemological perspective, the evolution of the central concepts that make up the nursing discipline, as well as the most relevant theoretical models, applying scientific methodology in the care process and developing corresponding care plans.
3.13.- Apply the nursing process to provide and guarantee the well-being, quality and safety of the people cared for.
3.14.- Know and apply the principles that underpin comprehensive nursing care.
3.15.- Direct, evaluate and provide comprehensive nursing care to the individual, the family and the community. Units of competence:
3.15.1.- Direct, evaluate and provide comprehensive nursing care in the hospital setting.
3.15.2.- Direct, evaluate and provide comprehensive nursing care in the field of primary health care.
3.16.- Ability to describe the fundamentals of the primary level of health and the activities to be developed to provide comprehensive nursing care to the individual, the family and the community. Understand the role and activities and cooperative attitude that the professional has to develop in a Primary Health Care team. Promote the participation of individuals, families and groups in their health-disease process. Identify the factors related to health and environmental problems, to attend to people in situations of health and illness as members of a community. Identify and analyze the influence of internal and external factors on the level of health of individuals and groups. Apply the necessary methods and procedures in your field to identify the most relevant health problems in a community. Analyze statistical data referring to population studies, identifying 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.
3.17.- Know the health alterations in adults, identifying the manifestations that appear in their different phases. Identify the care needs derived from health problems. Analyze the data collected in the assessment, prioritize the problems of the adult patient, establish and execute the care plan and carry out its evaluation. Carry out nursing care techniques and procedures, establishing a therapeutic relationship with patients and their families. Select the interventions aimed at treating or preventing the problems derived from health deviations. Have a cooperative attitude with the different members of the team.
3.18.- Identify the characteristics of women in the different stages of the reproductive cycle and in the climacteric and in the alterations that may occur, providing the necessary care at each stage. Apply general care during the maternity process to facilitate the adaptation of women and infants to new demands and prevent complications. Units of competences:
3.18.1.- Identify the characteristics of women in the different stages of the reproductive cycle and in the climacteric and in the alterations that may occur, providing the necessary care at each stage.
3.18.2.- Apply general care during the maternity process to facilitate the adaptation of women and newborns to the new demands and prevent complications.
3.19.- Know the specific aspects of newborn care. Identify the characteristics of the different stages of childhood and adolescence and the factors that condition the normal pattern of growth and development. Know the most frequent health problems in childhood and identify their manifestations. Analyze the assessment data of the child, identifying nursing problems and complications that may arise. Apply the 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.
3.20.- Understand the changes associated with the aging process and their impact on health. Identify the structural, functional, psychological and lifestyle modifications associated with the aging process. Units of competences:
3.20.1.- Understand the changes associated with the aging process and their impact on health.
3.20.2.- Identify the structural, functional, psychological and lifestyle modifications associated with the aging process.
3.21.- Know the most frequent health problems in the elderly. Select care interventions aimed at treating or preventing health problems and their adaptation to daily life through proximity resources and support for the elderly. Units of competences:
3.21.1.- Know the most frequent health problems in the elderly.
3.21.2.- Select care interventions aimed at treating or preventing health problems and their adaptation to daily life through proximity resources and support for the elderly.
3.22.- Know the Spanish Health System. Identify the characteristics of the directive function of nursing services and care management. Know and be able to apply group management techniques. Units of competences:
3.22.1.- Know the Spanish and Andalusian Health System.
3.22.2.- Identify the characteristics of the directive function of nursing services and care management.
3.22.3.- Know and be able to apply group management techniques.
3.23.- Know the applicable legislation and the ethical and deontological code of Spanish nursing, inspired by the European code of nursing ethics and deontology. Provide care, guaranteeing the right to dignity, privacy, intimacy, confidentiality and decision-making capacity of the patient and family. Individualize care considering age, gender, cultural differences, ethnic group, beliefs and values. Units of competences:
3.23.1.- Know the applicable legislation and the code of ethics and deontology of Spanish nursing, inspired by the European code of nursing ethics and deontology.
3.23.2.- Provide care, guaranteeing the right to dignity, privacy, intimacy, confidentiality and decision-making capacity of the patient and family.
3.23.3.- Individualize care considering age, gender, cultural differences, ethnic group, beliefs and values.
3.24.- Know the most relevant mental health problems in the different stages of the life cycle, providing comprehensive and effective care in the field of nursing.
3.25.- Know palliative care and pain control to provide care that alleviates the situation of advanced and terminal patients.
3.26.- Pre-professional practices, supervised by qualified nurses in the form of an independent clinical rotation and with a final evaluation of competencies, in an accredited center for university, primary, specialized and social health care training that allow: Units of competencies:
3.26.1.- Incorporate professional values, care communication skills, clinical reasoning, clinical management and critical judgment, integrating nursing knowledge, skills and attitudes into professional practice, based on principles and values, associated with the skills described in the general objectives and in the matters that make up the Title.
3.27.- Final degree project: Transversal subject whose work will be carried out associated with different subjects. Units of competences:
3.27.1.- Design a quality project that relates comprehensive training to the practice of nursing care.
3.27.2.- Develop a quality project that relates comprehensive training to the practice of nursing care.
3.27.3.- Present a quality project that relates comprehensive training to the practice of nursing care.
3.27.4.- Defend a quality project that relates comprehensive training to the practice of nursing care.