Nursing
What is the objective of the course? What is it?
What does it train you for?
What does it train you for?
The graduate in Nursing is the operator of the healthcare profession of nursing who performs in professional autonomy activities aimed at prevention, care and safeguarding of individual and collective health, fulfilling the functions identified by the professional profile as well as the code of ethics and using planning methodologies to assist children in achieving their developmental goals as well as caring for adult and elderly patients. The nurse is the healthcare provider responsible for general nursing in its preventive, curative, palliative and rehabilitative and technical forms, also performing relational and educational duties. The main functions are disease prevention, care of sick and disabled persons of all ages and health education. In addition, the nurse: participate in identifying the health needs of the individual and the community, formulating the related objectives; plans, manages and evaluates the nursing care intervention, ensuring the correct application of diagnostic- therapeutic prescriptions and acting either individually or in collaboration with other health and social care professionals.
What do you learn?
During the three years of the course of study, students will be in touch with the real world of health, with those who suffer and need help to overcome obstacles. The student will thus have the opportunity to experience an unparalleled professional and human growth; they will learn to integrated theoretical knowledge with operational and organizational procedures, critical thinking with human skills, experimentation with real context assistance. Before being admitted to the wards, students will practice in the laboratory, having the opportunity to train in a controlled environment, and to perform what they have learned in class, and apply theoretical principles to clinical practice so as to develop: technical and practical skills through the use of simulators; they will develop care, organizational, relational and problem solving skills by applying care methodologies using simulated clinical cases devised with patients, families and health professionals.
What can you do with it?
Nurses carry out their professional activity in health care facilities, in the public or private sector, in healthcare facilities and in patients’ homes, as employees or freelancers; they can contribute to the training of support personnel and directly update their professional profile and research. Studies can be continued by gaining admission to the Master Degree in Nursing and Midwifery or the Master Degree in Nursing Health.