Nursing Degree (3ªed)

To be admitted to the degree programme, applicants should have a personal profile that includes a vocation for service in healthcare activities. It is also highly recommended that applicants have a strong knowledge of health sciences and the English language.
The entry requirements should be related to the skills that students should have acquired by the end of secondary school.

To be admitted to the degree programme, applicants should have a personal profile that includes a vocation for service in healthcare activities. It is also highly recommended that applicants have a strong knowledge of health sciences and the English language.
The entry requirements should be related to the skills that students should have acquired by the end of secondary school.

The University of Santiago has a university participation and integration service (SEPIU) (http://www.usc. es/gl/servizos/sepiu) that works on the integration of people with disabilities and provides support for the development of curricular adaptations, as well as a protocol for integration into the university community, The aim of these events is to introduce new students to the possibilities, resources and services offered by the University to the new students.

The University School of Nursing of Lugo (affiliated center) has a Welcome Document for new students, this document and the rules of the School is delivered to them on the first day of class. Nursing students are received by the School's management team to provide them with information related to nursing studies.

The USC has a student-tutor program for the undergraduate degrees, so that final year students, after receiving training from the University, can perform orientational tasks to students initiating their studies.

Information about student-tutor program:

Programa alumnos titores

When a degree suspension occurs, the USC guarantees the adequate development of teachings that were initiated by their students until its suspension. For that, the Government Council approves the criteria related with the admission of new degree entry registration and the gradual suspension of teaching impartation, among others.

If the suspended degree is substituted for a similar one —modifying the nature of the degree—, the new degree regulations will set the conditions to facilitate students the continuity of the new degree’s studies. These regulations will also set subject equivalences in both programs.

Generals for undergraduate degrees.

Special access conditions or tests are not contemplated

Comp01: Be capable, in the field of nursing, of providing technical and professional healthcare appropriate to the health needs of the people they care for, in accordance with the state of scientific knowledge at any given time and with the levels of quality and safety established in the applicable legal and ethical standards.
Comp02: Plan and provide nursing care aimed at individuals, families or groups, focused on health outcomes and evaluating their impact, through clinical and care practice guidelines that describe the processes by which a health problem is diagnosed, treated or cared for.
Comp03: Understand the interactive behaviour of individuals based on gender, group or community, within their social and multicultural context.
Comp04: Design care systems aimed at individuals, families or groups, evaluating their impact and making appropriate modifications.
Comp05: Base nursing interventions on scientific evidence and available resources.
Comp06: Understand people without prejudice, considering their physical, psychological and social aspects as autonomous and independent individuals, ensuring respect for their opinions, beliefs and values, and guaranteeing their right to privacy through confidentiality and professional secrecy.
Comp07: Promote and respect the right to participation, information, autonomy and informed consent in decision-making for those receiving care, in accordance with how they experience their health-illness process.
Comp08: Encourage healthy lifestyles and self-care, supporting the maintenance of preventive and therapeutic behaviours.
Comp09: Protect the health and well-being of individuals, families or groups receiving care, ensuring their safety.
Comp10: Establish effective communication with patients, families, social groups and colleagues and promote health education.
Comp11: Establish evaluation mechanisms, considering scientific-technical and quality aspects.
Comp12: Work with the team of professionals as a basic unit in which professionals and other staff from healthcare organisations are structured in a uni- or multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary manner.
Comp13: Provide nursing care based on comprehensive health care, which involves multi-professional cooperation, the integration of processes and continuity of care.
Comp14: Use medicines, evaluating the expected benefits and associated risks and/or effects of their administration and consumption.
Comp15: Apply health care information and communication technologies and systems.
Comp16: Identify people's psychosocial responses to different health situations (particularly illness and suffering), selecting appropriate actions to provide assistance in these situations. Establish an empathetic and respectful relationship with the patient and family, in accordance with the person's situation, health problem and stage of development. Use strategies and skills that enable effective communication with patients, families and social groups, as well as the expression of their concerns and interests.
Comp17: Apply the nursing process to provide and ensure the well-being, quality and safety of the people being cared for.
Comp18: Direct, evaluate and provide comprehensive nursing care to the individual, family and community.
Comp19: Ability to describe the fundamentals of primary health care and the activities to be carried out to provide comprehensive nursing care to individuals, families and communities. Understand the role, activities and cooperative attitude that professionals must develop in a primary health care team. Promote the participation of individuals, families and groups in their health-illness process. Identify factors related to health and environmental problems in order to care for individuals in health and illness situations as members of a community. Identify and analyse the influence of internal and external factors on the health status of individuals and groups. Apply the necessary methods and procedures in their field to identify the most relevant health problems in a community. Analyse statistical data from population studies, identifying the 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.
Comp20: Select interventions aimed at treating or preventing problems arising from health deviations. Have a cooperative attitude with the different members of the team.
Comp21: Identify the characteristics of women at different stages of the reproductive cycle and during menopause, as well as any changes that may occur, providing the necessary care at each stage. Apply general care during the maternity process to facilitate the adaptation of women and newborns to new demands and prevent complications.
Comp22: Analyse child assessment data, identifying nursing problems and complications that may arise. 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.
Comp23: Provide care, guaranteeing the right to dignity, privacy, intimacy, confidentiality and decision-making capacity of the patient and family. Individualise care considering age, gender, cultural differences, ethnic group, beliefs and values.
Comp24: Incorporate professional values, healthcare communication skills, clinical reasoning, clinical management and critical judgement, integrating into professional practice the knowledge, skills and attitudes of nursing, based on principles and values, associated with the competencies described in the general objectives and in the subjects that make up the degree.
Comp25: Desarrollar capacidad para el trabajo en equipo
Comp26: Adquirir capacidad para la resolución de problemas
Comp27: Adquirir capacidad para la toma de decisiones
Comp28: Desarollar capacidad para adaptarse a nuevas situaciones.
Comp29: Planificar y gestionar el tiempo
Comp30: Trabajar de manera autónoma
Comp31: Gestionar información
Comp32: Apreciar la diversidad y multiculturalidad
Comp33: Desarrollar habilidades de investigación
Comp34: Adquirir habilidades

HD01: Recognise life-threatening situations and know how to perform basic and advanced life support manoeuvres.
HD02: Perform nursing care techniques and procedures, establishing a therapeutic relationship with patients and their families.
HD03: Apply nursing care techniques, establishing a therapeutic relationship with children and their carers.
HD04: Ability to implement health and safety principles, including patient mobilisation and handling, infection control, basic first aid and emergency procedures.
HD05: Ability to safely administer drugs and other therapies.

Con01: Understand and apply the theoretical and methodological foundations and principles of nursing.
Con02: Understand the ethical and deontological code of Spanish nursing, comprehending the ethical implications of health in a changing global context.
Con03: Understand the principles of health and social care financing and make appropriate use of available resources.
Con04: Understand healthcare information systems.
Con05: Understand strategies for adopting comfort and symptom management measures, aimed at patients and families, in the application of palliative care that contributes to alleviating the situation of advanced and terminal patients.
Con06: Understand and identify the structure and function of the human body. Understand the molecular and physiological bases of cells and tissues.
Con07: Understand the use and indication of healthcare products related to nursing care.
Con08: Know the different groups of drugs, the principles of their authorisation, use and indication, and their mechanisms of action.
Con09: Know and assess the nutritional needs of healthy people and those with health problems throughout the life cycle, in order to promote and reinforce healthy eating habits. Identify nutrients and the foods in which they are found. Identify the most prevalent nutritional problems and select appropriate dietary recommendations.
Con10: Understand the pathophysiological processes and their manifestations, as well as the risk factors that determine health and disease states at different stages of the life cycle.
Con11: Understand and identify the psychological and physical problems resulting from gender-based violence in order to train students in the prevention, early detection, care, and rehabilitation of victims of this form of violence.
Con12: Identify, integrate, and relate the concept of health and care from a historical perspective in order to understand the evolution of nursing care.
Con13: Understand, from an ontological and epistemological perspective, the evolution of the central concepts that shape the discipline of nursing, as well as the most relevant theoretical models, applying scientific methodology in the care process and developing the corresponding care plans.
Con14: Know and apply the principles that underpin comprehensive nursing care.
Con15: Understand adult health disorders, identifying the manifestations that appear in their different phases. Identify the care needs arising from health problems. Analyse the data collected in the assessment, prioritise the adult patient's problems, establish and implement the care plan and carry out its evaluation.
Con16: Understand the specific aspects of newborn care. Identify the characteristics of the different stages of childhood and adolescence and the factors that determine normal growth and development patterns. Understand the most common health problems in childhood and identify their symptoms.
Con17: Understand the changes associated with the ageing process and their impact on health. Identify the structural, functional, psychological and lifestyle changes associated with the ageing process.
Con18. Understand the most common health problems in older people. Select care interventions aimed at treating or preventing health problems and adapting to daily life through local resources and support for the elderly.
Con19: Understand the Spanish healthcare system. Identify the characteristics of the management function of nursing services and care management. Understand and be able to apply group management techniques.
Con20: Understand the applicable legislation and the code of ethics and professional conduct for Spanish nursing, inspired by the European code of ethics and professional conduct for nursing.
Con21: Understand the most relevant mental health problems at different stages of the life cycle, providing comprehensive and effective care in the field of nursing.
Con22: Understand palliative care and pain management in order to provide care that alleviates the suffering of patients with advanced and terminal illnesses.

Provides training in the provision and management of public and private health and social care services, teaching and research.