Student Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1. Capacity to apply knowledge in the holistic care of patients, families, and the community, taking into account the different phases in the life cycle in processes of illness and health.
2. Knowledge of and capacity to apply technology and computers in nursing and healthcare research.
3. Knowledge of the different functions, responsibilities, and roles to be undertaken by nursing professionals.
4. Knowledge of and skill in using the instruments inherent in human care procedures.
5. Capacity to utilize information and communication technologies for assertive decision-making and healthcare resource management.
6. Capacity to design and manage research projects concerned with nursing and healthcare.
7. Capacity to participate effectively in local, regional, national, and international collective bodies that promote the development of the profession.

Skills

1. Skill in applying the nursing methodology and theories that underlie and organize intervention, guaranteeing the care relationship.
2. Skill in interacting in interdisciplinary and multi-sector teams, with problem-solving capacity to meet priority, emergent, and special healthcare needs.
3. Skill in resolving healthcare problems using research in nursing practice.
4. Skill and capacity to promote ongoing learning among persons, groups, and the community to foster good health habits and healthy lifestyles in relation to the surrounding environment.
5. Capacity to administer safely drugs and other treatments necessary in providing quality nursing care.
6. Capacity to apply in practice the principles of safety and hygiene in nursing care.
7. Capacity to document and communicate information fully and completely to patients, families, and community to provide continuity and security in care.

Competencies

1. Capacity to show respect for culture and human rights in nursing interventions in the healthcare field.
2. Capacity to participate actively in the development of healthcare policies, respecting cultural diversity.
3. Capacity to plan, organize, execute, and evaluate disease prevention and recovery campaigns, using quality criteria.
4. Capacity to work within a context of the codes of ethics, rules, standards, and laws governing the profession.
5. Capacity to design, execute, and evaluate formal and non-formal health education programs addressing local needs.
6. Capacity to participate in multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams set up to formulate educational projects.
7. Capacity to participate actively in ethics committees for the practice of nursing and bioethics.
8. Capacity to defend the dignity of the individual and right to life in interdisciplinary healthcare.
9. Capacity to establish and maintain a caring relationship with patients, families, and community faced with different care requirements, with greater emphasis in critical situations and in the terminal phase of life.