Nursing Fundamentals I

Occurrence: 2023/24 - 1S

Courses

Hours Actually Taught

38B

38A

38 ce

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit (knowledge, skills and competences to be developed by the students)

Capacity of knowledge acquisition, analysis and interpretation of documents about the functioning of the national health system in the international context, national health plan, health promotion and prevention measures on individual and community health
Capacity to identify the milestones of nursing according to its ontological and epistemological nature in academic and professional dimensions of discipline
Capacity to work in groups analysing the importance of basic tools and the nursing process to the care process
Capacity to identify the areas of competence of the general care nurse for professional practice; Capacity to identify models and theories of health education in the process of care    

Syllabus

Organizations as health care contexts
National Health System in the international context
Rights and duties of the citizen, involvement of actors in health care contexts
National and international organizations
National health care plan (PNS), health programs
Concept of individual and community health
Health promotion and prevention measures
Nursing ontological, epistemological and historical evolution
Precursor of thought in nursing theories
Nursing as a discipline of knowledge
The schools of thought
Conceptual framework in nursing
Method and basic instruments
From academic component to the professional in nursing discipline
Nursing professional practice, nurses¿ skills
The body in nursing care
Interpersonal relationship and caring in nursing
Nursing health promotion and health lifelong education
Learning models and theories
Planning activities     

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the curricular unit's learning objectives

As the program is organized around the four concepts of metaparadigm in Nursing, the teaching methodologies were designed with the objective of providing a gradual and active appropriation of the contents by the students; nursing is contextualized as a discipline and profession, adopting diversified strategies in theoretical and theoretical-practical classes, considering the different learning styles of different students. The aim is to prepare for the subsequent UC of Nursing Fundamentals II, in the 2nd semester. It promotes the analysis, interpretation and synthesis of documents on the health system and national health policy in the international context, using exhibition sessions and strategies that lead to the exchange of opinions between students and teachers; the expression and debate of ideas with individual and group research is stimulated. The aim is to develop the ability to understand and give meaning to contents related to the ontoepistemological nature of Nursing as a discipline, in the construction of its academic and professional dimensions, adopting strategies for exchanging opinions between students and teachers. The expression and debate of individual and group ideas and research are mobilized, essentially in theoretical and theoretical-practical classes. Assuming the student simultaneously as author and center of his learning, group work is promoted, recreating learning scenarios in laboratory practices and seminars. 

Teaching methodologies (including evaluation)

Demonstration of the coherence between the teaching methodologies and the learning outcomes

Since the program is organized around the four metaparadigm concepts in Nursing, the teaching methodologies were designed in order to provide a gradual and active appropriation of the contents by the students, according to their theoretical framework; nursing is contextualized as a discipline and profession, and diversified strategies are adopted in theoretical and theoretical-practical classes, considering different learning styles from the different students. It is aimed at preparing for the subsequent UC of Nursing Fundamentals II, in the 2nd semester, as well as for the curricular development of the undergraduate nursing course. It promotes the analysis, interpretation and synthesis of documents on the health system and national health policy in the international context, using exhibition sessions and strategies leading to the exchange of opinions between students and the teacher, the expression and debate of ideas with individual and group research. The aim is to develop the ability to understand and give meaning to the contents related to the ontoepistemological nature of Nursing as a discipline, in the construction of its academic and professional dimensions.

Bibliography (Mandatory resources)

Observations