Plan de estudios

OBJECTIVES

1. To discuss the historical, theoretical and philosophical bases of the Nursing Sciences.  2. To design and implement planning, actions and assessment in the field of Nursing Care, considering different health needs according to problem, age and social context.
3. To equip students admitted to the programme to apply the methods and techniques necessary for professional under- and postgraduate teaching practice.
4. To train Master’s Degree students in the management of the resources available in any social or health organisation, and at any organisational level.
5. To promote the development of areas of research aimed at professional practice and/or which serve as a basis for a doctoral thesis.

COMPETENCES

General Competences (CG)

• G1:Understand the working of health care markets and their failings. Capacity for critical evaluation of the different alternative health care systems.
• G2:Capacity to represent and defend the interests of patients.
• G3:Profound respect for ethics and intellectual integrity.
• G4:Capacity to assess risk and actively promote the welfare and safety of the whole working environment (including oneself).
• G5:Capacity to inform, educate, supervise and maintain effective communication (including the use of technology) with patients, families and social groups, including those with communication difficulties.
• G6:Capacity to manage information from different documentary sources and information systems.
• G7:Capacity to identify and solve current and potential health problems using the scientific method.
• G8:Capacity to use recommendation skills correctly (communication techniques to promote patient welfare).
• G9:Capacity to generate ideas, initiate research projects and define the context and variables involved in designing a research project.
• G10:Ability to manage information and capacity to evaluate the relevant bibliography critically.
• G11:Ability to analyse research data and results in a changing context.
• G12:Write original contributions and well-founded arguments, draft plans, work projects, scientific articles and formulate reasonable hypotheses.
• G13:Present ideas, procedures and research reports in public, transmit emotions and advise individuals and organisations.
• G14:Understand every step of the research process and the relationships between them. Identify nursing problems that require research.
• G15:Capacity to respond to the needs of individuals throughout their life cycles and experiences of change by planning, providing and assessing the best individually-tailored care programmes together with the individual the family and health and social workers.
• G16:Capacity to let patients and their carers express their concerns and interests and, for example, respond appropriately emotionally, socially, psychologically, spiritually and physically.
• G17:Capacity to give emotional support and identify when it is necessary to seek professional advice from a specialist or other interventions in complex situations.
• G18:Learn to apply the concepts, principles, theories and models related to one's area of study in new or little-known settings, within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts.
• G19:Understand the ideological roots of the nursing profession.
• G20:Analyse the conceptual foundations that have led to the present situation of Nursing in the general context of the Sciences, the University and the professions.
• G21:Master the concepts of the Philosophy of Science that define the differentiating function of each of the disciplines, including the importance of establishing a body of doctrine exclusively for Nursing.
• G22:Capacity for leadership in the area of specialisation of the programme based on advanced knowledge.
• G23:Understand the competitive budgetary and human resources management models used by health care and public health service companies.
• G24:Introduce skills to carry out research, find information, analyse data and disseminate research work in professional contexts.
• G25:Capacity for teamwork with initiative and an entrepreneurial spirit.
• G26:Capacity to respond to complex health care situations or problems when they occur.
• G27:Capacity and flexibility to solve care-related problems.
• G28:Approach the phenomenon of care-related pluralism.
• G29:Trained to work in an international context.
• G30:Contribute specific actions to guarantee the dignity, safety, privacy and autonomy of individuals.
• G31:Capacity to identify and treat defiant behaviour.
• G32:Capacity to analyse and synthesis information.
• G33:Ethical commitment.
• G34:Understand a foreign language (English) to read scientific publications.
• G35:Capacity and ability to make decisions.
• G36:Capacity for innovation and creation.
• G37:Capacity for criticism and self-criticism.
• G38:Describe and distinguish: efficacy effectiveness, efficiency, equity, evaluation of results, research into health care services and practice based on evidence. Classify measurements of health results used in the literature. Identify and evaluate studies assessing health results apt for nursing intervention. Analyse and select measures to evaluate health results.
• G39:Understand the usefulness and advantages offered by the foundations and interventions of the systemic-interactional-communicational model of the TFS in the holistic humanistic practice of nursing care.
• G40:Capacity to produce new knowledge and apply scientific evidence in one's professional career.

Specific Competences (CE)

• E1:Understand the principles of funding of companies in the social-health care sector and be able to use them efficiently.
• E2:Sufficient knowledge and capacity to apply ethics, Law and the humanities to nursing practice.
• E3:Contribute specific actions to guarantee the dignity, safety, privacy and autonomy of individuals.
• E4:Within a clinical and community context, ability to educate, facilitate, supervise and support health care students and other health care-social workers.
• E5:Design an investigative assessment study in the clinical context, in the form of a research project.
• E6:Design appropriate information searches in secondary health sciences sources and select and recover certain complete documents.
• E7:Identify the research designs used in research articles and, at the same time, design alternative methodological strategies to respond to research problems.
• E8:Identify and select good instruments for measuring physical, psychological and social variables.
• E9:Design a measurement situation controlling measurement errors.
• E10:Assess the quality of research findings.
• E11:Prepare scientific arguments by constructing one's own discourse.
• E12:Analyse the importance and influence of theoretical support when carrying out scientific research into nursing.
• E13:Determine the methodological parameters to be used in scientific research into nursing.
• E14:Capacity for critical use of care assessment and audit tools according to the pertinent quality standards.
• E15:Capacity to deal with the challenges of current health care systems that are going through a time of change in order to cover the needs of society and patients when so required.
• E16:Design a health care organisation from resource allocation to its organisation and results.
• E17:Design a process map and understand the process management model.
• E18:Design and evaluate a clinical pathway as a management tool.
• E19:Sufficient knowledge and capacity to apply ethics, Law and the humanities to nursing practice.
• E20:Contribute specific actions to guarantee the dignity, safety, privacy and autonomy of individuals.
• E21:Understand epidemiology and biostatistics as basic research tools for health sciences research.
• E22:Design studies in one's own scientific field.
• E23:Manage and Analyse data from a study in one's own scientific field.
• E24:Draft scientific communiqués in accordance with the guidelines of the scientific method.
• E26:Work with individual and social variables affecting health and morbility from local, national and international viewpoints.
• E27:Analyse the differences and inequalities related to health and illness. Especially those related to gender, age and cultural diversity.
• E28:Understand the structure of the Spanish health care system. Compare it with other health care systems. Analyse changes and processes.
• E29:Introduction to the analysis of the health professions, historical evolution and current perspectives. Reflect on the current state of the nursing profession.
• E30:Analyse the impact of new technologies on health.
• E31:Acquire in-depth knowledge of each and every community situation that drive and demand new care provision.
• E32:Understand social-health care resources and those that could be needed for the new health care demands of users (individuals, families, professional) and the possibilities of accessing them.
• E33:Establish the theoretical-practical foundations for carrying out a care programme derived from analysis of the new care demands of the different population groups requesting them.
• E34:Identify the historical science and history of nursing: concepts, general characteristics and unique features.
• E35:Understand the differences and similarities in the evolution of nursing as home care, science and profession.
• E36:Understand nursing care, the interpretation of health and illness in history: animism and magic, dualism (polytheistic and monotheistic religions), technology and scientific thinking.
• E37:Understand the historical evolution of nursing in cultural, political, health care and educational systems, being able to interrelate them with the scientific paradigms dominating at each historical moment.
• E38:Expectations for nursing in the future: Innovation and historical change as a process of reinterpreting roles and the social construction of the history of nursing: dialectic materialism and deconstructionism.
• E39:Analyse the contribution of Social and Cultural Anthropology in understanding sickness and health, highlighting the vital role played by culture in the University Master's Degree in Nursing Sciences when it comes to understanding these phenomena and thus society as a whole.
• E40:Explain the influence of cultural factors when carrying out clinical actions.
• E41:Identify the role of cultural factors in epidemiological analysis and public health policies.
• E42:Human communication. Description, foundations, subjects, aspects. Non-verbal communication.
• E43:Main foundations of the helping relationship according to humanistic philosophy. Understand and take into account the skills needed to facilitate therapeutic relationships. Describe specific intervention strategies for establishing, maintaining and terminating a helping relationship.
• E44:Know how to organise, structure, direct and finalise meetings. Types, preparation, direction and difficulties.
• E45:Group dynamics: levels of observation, individuals, conflicts, classes, organisation, development and problems that may arise.
• E46:Capacity to analyse aging theories and identify and differentiate biopsychosocial changes caused by the aging process and illness.
• E47:Identify and prevent risks caused by the aging process, illness and the disuse syndrome.
• E48:Plan and manage resources to cover the needs of the elderly.
• E49:Establish strategies for improving the quality of life in old age.
• E50:Capacity to deal with the challenges faced by current care systems to cover the needs of the population and patients when necessary.
• E51:Appropriate knowledge of the capacity to apply national and international policies.
• E52:Capacity to read scientific documents critically.
• E53:Understand the ethical principles laid down for scientific research.
• E54:Capacity to collaborate on diffusing results at scientific events.
• E55:Capacity to collaborate on identifying priority lines of research.
• E56:Understand and be able to apply the theoretical and practical principles of the Ethnography and ethnology of care.
• E57:Understand the history of health care educational systems: oral culture, written culture and pictorial culture.
• E58:Understand and master myths and religion as fundamental factors in the transmission of health care knowledge.
• E59:Identify the role of reflection, action and critical thinking in the educational context of care.
• E60:Capacity to define and interpret demographic and health care transitions.
• E61:Capacity to describe, analyse and present the sources of static and dynamic demographic data.
• E62:Capacity to define the different statistical bodies at regional, national, European and world levels.
• E63:Capacity to construct and interpret different demographic indicators based on available data sources.
• E64:Identify different theoretical models for analysing health inequalities.
• E65:Use tools for detecting health inequalities.
• E66:Identify the social, political and economic differences that influence the state of health of populations and their effect on health inequalities.
• E67:Base clinical judgement in a conceptual framework, model or philosophy of care.
• E68:Discuss the process of clinical reasoning and judgement and explore the factors that affect decision-making. Reasoning and diagnosis. Therapeutic reasoning. Clinical reasoning model of D.J. Pesut and Herman.
• E69:Analyse the process of technical rationality to reflection from action.
• E70:Reflect on a personal philosophy and manner of caring based on practical experience supported by knowledge.
• E71:Provide the theoretical foundations of the concepts of intellectual capital, knowledge management, information management and document management using computer technology as a management and research tool in the field of health care.
• E72:Analyse organisational health information systems and databases regarding the representation of the knowledge, information and data they contain.
• E73:Assess organisational health information systems and databases regarding their usefulness and options for use.
• E74:Differentiate between modern information resources and sources available on electronic media related to the health care and nursing fields.
• E75:Use Information Recovery System options (basic form, advanced, controlled vocabulary and Boolean operators or natural language) that allow one to formulate search strategies correctly on the basis of the information resource or source.
• E76:Describe the quality criteria applied to select information on the Web.
• E77:Correctly apply the quotation norms of the electronic sources and resources that comply with quality and reliability requirements in the health care domain.
• E78:Understand and apply the concepts of systemic Theory and family Therapy to nursing care.
• E79:Acquire in-depth knowledge of how families function.
• E80:Give students a basic understanding of the theoretical model and practical dynamics of the systemic model as applied to the family.
• E81:Basic understanding of the different theoretical constructs that help us to understand family dynamics and TFS.
• E82:Describe the complexity of relationships, their difficulties and problems and the different modes of communication within families.
• E83:Explain the aims of primary care and public health research. Define research methodologies and the interrelation between quantitative and qualitative research.
• E84:Define primary health care and public health. Explain the organisation, functions, activities, components and aims of the primary care and public health team.
• E85:Explain the characteristics of the sources of information for research into primary care and public health. Analyse certain systematic sources of information Describe health surveys as an example of occasional sources of information.
• E86:Describe the characteristics and applications of the epidemiological method in research into primary care and public health.
• E87:Identify the general characteristics of qualitative research and formulate a research question.
• E88:Design a qualitative study. Understand the ways of obtaining qualitative data and analysing it.
• E89:Assess the rigor of qualitative studies.
• E90:Explain the aims of research in vaccinology. Define research methodologies and the planning of vaccination programmes.
• E91:Define the management of vaccination programmes. Explain the organisation, functions, activities, components and aims of the programme.
• E92:Explain the characteristics of vaccinology information sources. Analyse systematic information sources and the bodies involved.
• E93:Describe the applications of the epidemiological method to vaccinology. Describe the application of social skills to vaccination programmes. Analyse specific situations and how to develop strategies on the ground.
• E94:Capacity to understand and recognise affective, motivational, cognitive and behavioural components, applying methods and instruments of measurement in the field of psychotherapy and personality.
• E95:Capacity to analyse and understand the overall sense of scientific texts written in English.
• E96:Capacity for effective communication when presenting work in public orally, and writing scientific articles, reports, letters requests and CVs in English.
• E97:Capacity to assess risks and actively promote the well-being and safety of all those in one's working context (including oneself).
• E98:Understand and use health sciences vocabulary in Valencian.
• E99:Capacity to take responsibility for one's own learning and professional development, using assessment and research as the means of reflecting on and improving one's performance and increasing the quality of the services provided.

• Entry Requirements and Selection Criteria
• Admission and Assessment Criteria
• Pre-enrolment and Enrolment
• Number of Places

 ENTRY REQUIREMENTS AND SELECION CRITERIA

According to the Regulations of the University of Alicante, the following requirements must be complied to have access to official taught Master’s degrees:

1. To be in possession of a SPANISH OFFICIAL GRADUATE DEGREE CERTIFICATE or other issued by an institution of higher education  within the EHEA (European Higher Education) that enables the holder to have access  to Master’s degrees in the issuing .
2. To be in possession of an officially approved  FOREIGN HIGHER EDUCATION DEGREE CERTIFICATE that had been recognised as equal to the degree that allows access to the requested studies.
3. To be in possession of a UNIVERSITY DEGREE CERTIFICATE obtained in a University or Higher Education Institution of COUNTRIES OUTSIDE THE EHEA, without the prior approval of their studies. In this case, the following should be considered:

• Non- recognised degree certificates shall require a technical report showing an equivalence statement issued by the University of Alicante (ContinUA – Continuing Education Centre), for which the corresponding fee should be paid.
• Access through this way does under no circumstances imply prior official approval of the holder’s degree certificate, nor its recognition for purposes other than studying a master's degree.

ADMISSION AND ASSESSMENT CRITERIA 

The following factors will be considered in the selection process:

1. Academic record corresponding to the qualification being presented  for admission to the Master’s Degree.

2. Personal Curriculum Vitae, assessing the following activities undertaken by the applicant:

-Experience of nursing unit management

-Teaching experience

-Experience of professional practice in health care

-Research activity

-Continuous learning

-Other achievements, with special importance being given to command of foreign languages and new technologies.

Of the places available, 3% will be reserved for students with a certified degree of disability equal to or above 33%.

 PRE-ENROLMENT AND ENROLMENT 

PRE-ENROLMENT +info

Students who wish to study for an Officially Recognised Master’s Degree at the UA should complete pre-enrolment in accordance with the deadlines and conditions specified annually.

ENROLMENT +info

Following publication of the definitive list of those admitted to the course, an email containing the user password will be sent to the students, enabling them to enrol via the Campus Virtual in accordance with the deadlines and conditions specified annually.

In the registration process, the documents issued abroad must be official, duly notorised and translated. Further information:

• http://sga.ua.es/en/academic-regulations/legalizacion/legalization-of-documents.html

NUMBER OF PLACES

Focus

A research degree: education-management-research.  Master’s Final Project 12 ECTS.  Direct access to doctorate areas of research.

Degree course specialisation profile

Introduction to research in the fields of the health sciences, clinical management and advanced academic and clinical teaching.

Perfiles Profesionales del Título

Professions for which the degree qualifies its holder

This degree does not qualify its holder for regulated professional practice.

TIMESCALE FOR IMPLEMENTATION

• https://cvnet.cpd.ua.es/webcvnet/PlanEstudio/traducirEstudioInfo.aspx?pidSolapa=10401 - 1Timescale for implementation
• Equivalence recognition procedure
• Discontinued programmes

1. Timescale for implementation of the new Master’s degree course

2. Procedure for equivalence recognition, where appropriate, between the current and the new course programme.

Conversion and credit equivalence between the various subjects on the University of Alicante’s own qualification course and those on the Master’s Degree in Nursing Sciences are detailed in the table below:

* Newly incorporated optional subjects in the course programme

** Subjects which did not exist at the time of implementing the Master’s Degree in Nursing Sciences corresponding to Royal Decree 56/2005 of the 21st January.

3. 3.  Studies being discontinued and replaced by the proposed degree course:

Master’s Degree in Nursing Sciences corresponding to Royal Decree 56/2005 of the 21st January.