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Practicum VII

Code: 106126
Credits: 12
2026/2027
Degree programme Type Course
Nursing PR 4

Contact lecturer

Name :
David Téllez Velasco
Email :
david.tellez@uab.cat

Teaching staff

Carolina Watson Badia
Mireia Balza Bielsa
Raúl Lopez Salas

Group languages

You can consult this information at the end of the document.

Prerequisites

Academic Recommendations

  • For consistency in progress toward gradual competency level acquisition, it is highly recommended to have completed Practicums I through VI.
  • Two practicums cannot be completed simultaneously.


Student Commitments

  • To maintain the confidentiality and professional secrecy of any data to which they may have access, to maintain a professionally ethical attitude in all their actions, and to apply the "Nursing Practicum Regulations" (regulations available at www.uab.cat/medicina → Nursing Degree → Practicum).
  • To apply the "Protocol that establishes basic guidelines intended to ensure and protect the right to patient privacy by students and residents in health sciences" (BOE-A-2017-1200).
  • It is an essential requirement to have the Certificate of Sexual Offenses in order to begin clinical practice. This process is the responsibility of the student and must be presented to the assigned Center/Hospital/Service upon request. You will find more information on how to obtain it at the following link: https://web.gencat.cat/ca/situacions-de-vida/justicia-seguretat/certificat-delictes-naturalesa-sexual/
  • Have a student ID card


Requirements of the internship centers.

  • Sign the confidentiality document and ID card.
  • Compliance with regulations regarding occupational risk prevention and preventive medicine.


Additional Information

  • Always check the Virtual Campus for updates and specific regulations.


Important note: It is the student's responsibility to verify and meet all requirements before starting the clinical internship.

Objectives

GENERAL OBJECTIVE

  • Practicum VII will allow the Student to integrate and apply the contents acquired in different subjects, incorporating new knowledge, skills and attitudes through the real contact with the nursing profession.


SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

  • Go in depth in the cares initiated in Practicum VI, those that are part of the day-to-day life of a nurse and initiate yourselves in those complex cares that are carried out through nursing services.
  • Incorporate the nursing process of attention as scientific methodology.
  • Develop the dimensions of the collaborative and autonomous roles.
  • Offer nursing care adapted to Medical needs, guaranteeing quality nursing care, directed to the patient and the family with an integral vision that contemplated the biological, psychological and social need of the patients.
  • Develop Communications skills with the patient, its family and the working team

Learning outcomes

  • CM11 (Promote the right to information, participation and promotion of autonomy in the decision-making of the people served, according to their way they experience their health and disease process.) Promote the right to information, participation and promotion of autonomy in the decision-making of the people served, according to their way they experience their health and disease process.
  • CM21 (Apply palliative measures and health technologies in the final stage of life of people in home, healthcare and social settings.) Apply palliative measures and health technologies in the final stage of life of people in home, healthcare and social settings.
  • CM25 (Act in life-threatening situations according to clinical practice guidelines.) Act in life-threatening situations according to clinical practice guidelines.
  • CM26 (Establish respectful, assertive and effective communication with people, their families and teams of health professionals.) Establish respectful, assertive and effective communication with people, their families and teams of health professionals.
  • CM27 (Work in health and social settings in collaboration with other professionals, forming multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams to improve the health and care of individuals, groups or the community.) Work in health and social settings in collaboration with other professionals, forming multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams to improve the health and care of individuals, groups or the community.
  • CM28 (Apply comprehensive and continuous nursing care in healthcare and social settings which guarantees the health and well-being of individuals, their families or the community, based on available scientific evidence, clinical practice guidelines and current legislation, to guarantee well-being, quality and safety.) Apply comprehensive and continuous nursing care in healthcare and social settings which guarantees the health and well-being of individuals, their families or the community, based on available scientific evidence, clinical practice guidelines and current legislation, to guarantee well-being, quality and safety.
  • CM29 (Establish a non-judgmental relationship with people considering physical, psychological and sociocultural factors to ensure respect for their opinions, beliefs and values and guarantee their right to privacy through confidentiality and professional discretion.) Establish a non-judgmental relationship with people considering physical, psychological and sociocultural factors to ensure respect for their opinions, beliefs and values and guarantee their right to privacy through confidentiality and professional discretion.
  • CM30 (Use health promotion and education strategies in health and social settings that encourage self-care and preventive and therapeutic behaviours, favouring the health and well-being of community members and minimising suffering, risks and disabilities.) Use health promotion and education strategies in health and social settings that encourage self-care and preventive and therapeutic behaviours, favouring the health and well-being of community members and minimising suffering, risks and disabilities.
  • CM31 (Develop nursing leadership in care and on teams within the health and social system.) Develop nursing leadership in care and on teams within the health and social system.
  • SM01 (Use scientific evidence in professional practice.) Use scientific evidence in professional practice.
  • SM04 (Choose the uses, indication and mechanisms of action of drugs and medical devices that may be prescribed or indicated by the nurse in accordance with current legislation.) Choose the uses, indication and mechanisms of action of drugs and medical devices that may be prescribed or indicated by the nurse in accordance with current legislation.
  • SM06 (Analyse people's interactive behaviour based on gender and other social determinants, taking into account their implications for health and disease processes in a social and multicultural context.) Analyse people's interactive behaviour based on gender and other social determinants, taking into account their implications for health and disease processes in a social and multicultural context.
  • SM11 (Design care organisation systems for individuals, their families or the community.) Design care organisation systems for individuals, their families or the community.
  • SM19 (Design nursing care by exchanging information, resolving difficulties, taking on responsibilities and contributing to the integration of processes and continuity of care.) Design nursing care by exchanging information, resolving difficulties, taking on responsibilities and contributing to the integration of processes and continuity of care.
  • SM36 (Plan nursing care aimed at individuals, their families or the community and oriented towards health outcomes.) Plan nursing care aimed at individuals, their families or the community and oriented towards health outcomes.
  • SM37 (Develop clinical judgments based on clinical and care practice guidelines and applying diagnostic and therapeutic reasoning in the provision of care.) Develop clinical judgments based on clinical and care practice guidelines and applying diagnostic and therapeutic reasoning in the provision of care.
  • SM38 (Identify physical, psychological and social problems derived from abuse throughout the life cycle, especially in childhood and old age, and act in favour of prevention and early detection for both care and rehabilitation.) Identify physical, psychological and social problems derived from abuse throughout the life cycle, especially in childhood and old age, and act in favour of prevention and early detection for both care and rehabilitation.
  • SM39 (Identify physical, psychological and social problems stemming from gender-based violence, and act in favour of prevention and early detection for the care and rehabilitation of women victims of gender-based violence.) Identify physical, psychological and social problems stemming from gender-based violence, and act in favour of prevention and early detection for the care and rehabilitation of women victims of gender-based violence.
  • SM40 (Use the technologies and information systems available in the health and social system to obtain relevant data and information to implement quality nursing care.) Use the technologies and information systems available in the health and social system to obtain relevant data and information to implement quality nursing care.

Contents

The contents of this practicum consist of a combination of the different subjects taught throughout the previous years. During the internship, students have to select the necessary content to identify needs and solve the problems of the people cared for that arise during the internship under the tutelage of the nurse. The following stand out:


  • Virgínia Henderson's nursing model applied to the care of people.
  • The methodological bases for planning and offering nursing courses.
  • Nursing care plan.
  • Transculturality.
  • The code of ethics, the rights and duties of the user within the framework of the healthcare system.
  • Continuous improvement of the quality of nursing care.
  • Clinical practice guidelines and protocols.
  • Healthy eating and therapeutic diets of the people served.
  • Factors that influence the learning processes of the people served, educational needs, learning objectives, educational strategies and expected results.
  • The nursing courses oriented to the promotion and prevention of health.
  • Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics of the drugs that are most prescribed, as well as the educational needs of people.
  • Therapeutic communication.
  • Interpersonal relationships and teamwork.
  • Conflict management.
  • Risk management standards for the safety of the person being served.
  • The Catalan health system.

Learning activities and methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
EXTERNAL PRACTICES (PEXT 291 11.64
Preparation of written works / Reding of articles 9 0.36

Clinical Practice (PEXT):

The clinical internships last approximately 8 weeks. The assistance service and internship schedule will be assigned according to the selection system established in SIA.

During the clinical internship period, the student will be integrated into hospital care units where they will be able to develop knowledge, skills, attitudes and values in a real and complex professional environment, always accompanied by a teaching nurse (clinical tutor). It will be this professional who will watch over and guide the learning process in an individualized and continuous way, as well as being responsible for carrying out the evaluation of the internship period.


The clinical associate professor will ensure the correct development of the internship period, making regular visits to the care services, and will be in charge, if necessary, of facilitating and coordinating the evaluation activities, as well as managing those incidents that may arise and have a direct or indirect impact on the student's learning process

Clinical internships represent a key opportunity to adapt to real hospital dynamics, acquiring skills typical of professional practice and reinforcing autonomy with the support of tutors.


Health institutions are dynamic and constantly changing entities. The assignment of care services and schedules will be made rigorously following the selection system established for SIA, but for organizational reasons beyond the control of the university, it is possible that the offer and availability of places may change without prior notice, forcing the relocation of the student to another care service.


The cost of public transport to travel to healthcare centres and homes is borne by the student.

Reflective Notebook (QR)

It is a compilation of those situations experienced during practice that have awakened some emotion, either positive or negative, with an impact on the learning process. Biweekly delivery in the form of written work via Virtual Campus.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Assessment

Continuous assessment activities

Title Weight Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Narrative records 30% 0 0 CM11, CM21, CM25, CM26, CM27, CM28, CM29, CM30, CM31, SM01, SM04, SM06, SM11, SM19, SM36, SM37, SM38, SM39, SM40
Evaluation during the practices at the center healhtcare 70% 0 0 CM11, CM21, CM25, CM26, CM27, CM28, CM29, CM30, CM31, SM01, SM04, SM06, SM11, SM19, SM36, SM37, SM38, SM39, SM40

Within the curriculum of the Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, the Practicums subjects are part of the External Practice subject. The competencies and learning outcomes of the External Practice subject will be worked on and evaluated throughout the different practicums depending on the context and environment where each of the practicums are developed. Throughout the development of the clinical practice stays from 2nd to 4th year, the achievement of all the clinical practice competencies of the degree will be ensured.

The final grade of the subject corresponds to the sum of the grade of the Clinical Practices (*PEXT) and that obtained from the reflective notebooks with the following weighting:

  1. 70% of the grade corresponds to the Clinical Practices (PEXT)
  2. 30% of the grade corresponds to reflective notebooks (QR)

IMPORTANT: to pass the subject, you must have passed each of the competence groups of the clinical practices and the reflective notebooks with a minimum grade of 5.


Attendance control:

Attendance monitoring sheet: By signing this document daily, the nurse responsible for each student confirms the schedule carried out during the internship day. This document will serve as proof for the calculation of hours of the subject.

The only person responsible for the document is the student. You will have to keep it updated and will be responsible for the veracity of the content of the information that is recorded. This document, correctly filled in with all the required information, will be delivered at the end of the practicum period to your associate professor and digitally written (scanned) in Moodle.

This document can be requested, at any time, by your control, by the people responsible for the practicums and/or teachers participating in the subject.


It is mandatory to carry out the entire period of clinical practice scheduled to the teaching calendar regardless of the schedule in which the internship is carried out. On public holidays, other than the 3 hospital teaching units, the student will not be able to carry out clinical practices (usual schedule or recovery of hours).


Any interruption of service attendance is considered absence. These can be:

a) Justified absences, the following situations:

  1. Deaths of close relatives and close relatives.
  2. Specialist medical visit.
  3. Acute illnesses
  4. Driver's license exam
  5. Official university exam (subjects other degrees)
  6. Exam for retake subjects of the Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.
  7. Official language tests
  8. Those that have the approval of the coordinator of the subject.
  9. Students will have to present a receipt duly presented to their teacher and leave a record in the document \"Follow-up sheet\" and will agree with their teacher on how to recover the pending hours.

b) NON-Excused Absences: Those that do not appear in the above list and have not been authorized by the coordination of the subject.

  1. Students will record their Unjustified Absence in the \"Follow-up Sheet\" document and will agree with their teacher on how to make up the pending hours.
  2. At the end of the subject, 1 point will be subtracted from the final grade (from 0 to 10) for each day of NOT justified absence. Even if the hours have been recovered.

c) Strikes, Demonstrations:

  1. Maintaining the rights of the students and following the recommendations of the rector's office, students who individually want to join a call of one of the student unions, will have to notify their teacher and the internship service in advance. Even so, you will have to leave a record in the document \"Follow-up sheet\".
  2. This day will be considered completed and not recoverable.

d) Absence NOT justified and NOT notified: It may lead to the failure of the subject.

e) Delay: Presenting more than 5 delays (start and end of shift, meals...) throughout the period of the subject may lead to failure of the subject.

Absences must be communicated as far in advance as possible to the associate professor and the internship service in order to reduce interference in the learning process and agree on the day to be recovered. All the hours that are missing due to absences will have to be made up within the internship period. The teaching staff of the subject cannot guarantee the recovery of practical hours outside the time marked in the academic calendar.


**Since January 2024, as a result of a legislative change, all students who do care internships contribute to social security. Any change in timetable (justified absence) must be communicated to the academic management of the teaching unit (Royal Decree Law 2/2023 on Social Security contributions for students in unpaid training internships). Unjustified absences, in addition to having an impact on the final grade of the practicum, may entail fraud of the law in accordance with the aforementioned regulations for non-compliance with the working schedule.**


Clinical Practice (PEXT):

The evaluation is. continuous and formative throughout the period.


Mid-term evaluation

Approximately halfway through the period, the student and clinical tutor will make an evaluation of the competencies to be achieved during the internship period in order to monitor the student's development, identifying areas for improvement and establishing objectives and interventions to be able to achieve them at the end of the internship period, as well as identifying those competencies achieved that will allow establishing objectives to work towards the continuous improvement of the cures and excellence. This evaluation can be done jointly, or through a self-evaluation by the student, which will be contrasted and commented on with the evaluation made by the clinical tutor.


Finalist evaluation

At the end of the clinical internship period, the clinical tutor will complete the internship evaluation document, taking into account the student's progress and the results of the mid-term evaluation. This evaluation can also be done jointly, or through a self-evaluation by the student, which will be contrasted and commented on with the evaluation made by the clinical tutor, and which can serve to guide the final grade.

* Attendance is mandatory in all the scheduled hours and in the assigned shift and schedule.

Justified and unjustified absences from attendance must be made up within the period of scheduled clinical internships with the prior authorization of the responsible teacher and the internship service.


Reflective Notebooks (QR):

The reflections derived from the elaboration of the reflective notebooks that arose within the context of clinical practice will be evaluated. Respect for the plurality of ideas, people and situations will be taken into account. The ability to identify strategies for improving learning will also be assessed. The evaluation of the QR will be carried out by the Clinical Associate Professor and will be done through the evaluation rubric (available at *Moodle). A style guide and recommendations to be followed in the preparation of the *QR will also be made available to the student.

The completion of the biweekly Reflective Notebook is mandatory. Failure to deliver a QR within the period established by the teacher will be scored with a 0. Extraordinary delivery periods will not be opened.


Obtaining the final grade:

According to agreement 4.4 of the Governing Council 17/11/2010 of the evaluation regulations, the grades will be:

  1. Suspended: <5
  2. Pass: 5 to 6.9
  3. Notable: 7 to 8.9
  4. Excellent: >9
  5. Honors: >9


According to the regulations on the permanence regime in official bachelor's and master's degree studies of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, a \"Not assessed\" will be given to students who have not been able to provide sufficient evaluation evidence.

The following criteria will be considered to assign \"Not Assessed\":

  1. Failure to achieve the hours set forth in this guide.
  2. Failure to submit the work/documentation within the deadlines established by the teaching staff.


* If necessary, the coordinator of the subject and/or the Teaching Unit may grant an extension in the delivery of the practicum documentation (of 1 day and no more than 5 days from the previously established deadline). In this case, 1 point will be subtracted from the final value of the grade. This exception is applicable in cases of health problems with presentation of medical proof and/or demonstrable technical problems at the time of delivery. Even so, those students who finish the internship period later because they have had to make up days of internship will deliver all the documentation promptly at the end of the period to be recovered.


USE OF AI

For this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (*AI) technologies is allowed exclusively in text support and correction tasks.

The student will have to clearly identify which parts have been generated with this technology, specify the tools used and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final result of the activity.

The non-transparency of the use of the *AI in this assessable activity will be considered academic dishonesty and may lead to a partial or total penalty in the grade of the activity, or greater sanctions in cases of severity.


NOTE:

The performance of any irregularity in an evaluation act (academic fraud, plagiarism or improper use of AI, unless this use is expressly authorized by the teaching guide), which may lead to a significant variation in the grade, assumes that this act will be graded with a 0. In the event that the teaching guide foresees that in order to pass the subject it is an essential requirement to have obtained a minimum grade in this evaluation act or that there are several irregularities in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade of this subject is 0. Apart from this, a disciplinary process may be instructed to the student that incurs any of these irregularities.


Similarly, any discriminatory, violent or disrespectful attitude towards patients, professionals, classmates and/or teachers will be elevated to the practicum commission that will analyze what happened and establish a consensual resolution in this regard.


At the request of the subject coordinator and/or practicum coordinator of the UD, an evaluation commission can be established to assess special, personal and/or extraordinary situations that do not find an answer within this guide or in documents published on the practicum website.


This subject does not provide for the single evaluation system

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Course groups and languages

The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE

Type of teaching Group Language Semester Shift
(PEXTintern) Pràctiques externes i pràcticum (amb supervisió interna) 99 Catalan annual morning-mixed