Competencies and objectives

Provisional information. Pending approval.

 

Course context for academic year 2025-26

The Nursing in Community Intervention, Mental Health, Psychiatry, and Ethics course aims to equip students with the necessary skills to care for people with acute or chronic mental health problems and/or people in situations of dependency, as well as their families, using various healthcare resources, taking into account the ethical and legal issues involved in the care process.

The purpose of this course is to train nursing professionals capable of providing comprehensive care that promotes the autonomous functioning of individuals, addressing both their physical and mental health. To achieve this, it is essential to understand the processes that can affect mental health, identify the factors that influence it, and understand evidence-based nursing interventions that promote recovery, whether in community or hospital settings.

This training is framed within a biopsychosocial approach, which recognizes mental health as the result of the interaction between biological, psychological, and social factors. Community service is also promoted as an essential strategy for the promotion, prevention, and monitoring of mental health, while training students to effectively intervene in crisis situations and mental illness processes in the hospital setting.

Furthermore, the course directly contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. In particular, it aligns with SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being), promoting a comprehensive vision of psychological well-being. It is also linked to other SDGs linked to the social determinants of health, such as education (SDG 4), decent work (SDG 8), poverty reduction (SDG 1), and the creation of healthy and sustainable environments (SDG 11). Thus, the importance of training health professionals committed to a care model that takes into account the social, economic, and environmental contexts in which people live is reinforced.

 

 

Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2025-26

Specific Competences (CE)

  • E02 : Base the interventions of Health Science professionals on scientific evidence and the available resources.
  • E03 : Establish evaluation mechanisms, taking into account scientific, technical and quality aspects.
  • E04 : Understand health care information systems.
  • E05 : Apply the necessary methods and procedures in your field to identify health problems.
  • E18 : Identify and understand the experience of suffering from a chronic process (or illness) and being dependent.

 

General Competences of the Degree Course (CG):>>Nursing sciences module

  • 19 : Direct, evaluate and provide integrated nursing care for individuals, families and the communities.
  • 20 : Capacity to describe the foundations of the primary level of health and the activities to be carried out to offer integrated nursing care to individuals, families and societies.
  • 21 : Understand the function, activities and cooperative attitude that a professional needs to develop in a Primary Health Care team.
  • 27 : Educate, facilitate and support the health and well-being of the members of a community whose lives are affected by problems associated with health, risk, illness, disability or death.
  • 45 : Understand the most frequent health problems of the elderly.
  • 46 : Select care interventions aimed at treating or preventing health problems and adapt them to daily life using proximity and support resources for the elderly.
  • 53 : Understand the most relevant health problems at different stages of the life cycle, providing comprehensive and effective care, in the field of nursing.
  • 54 : Understand palliative care and pain management to provide care that alleviates the situation of advanced and terminal patients.

 

Specific transversal competences of the degree course :>>Foreign language proficiency

  • CT1 : Read and understand texts in a foreign language.

 

Specific transversal competences of the degree course :>>IT and information competences

  • CT2 : Show computer and information system skills and abilities.

 

Specific transversal competences of the degree course:>>Oral and written communication competences

  • CT3 : Show oral and written communication skills.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26

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General

Code: 27037
Lecturer responsible:
Juliá Sanchís, Rocío
Credits ECTS: 9,00
Theoretical credits: 2,00
Practical credits: 1,60
Distance-base hours: 5,40

Departments involved

  • Dept: NURSING
    Area: NURSING
    Theoretical credits: 1,33
    Practical credits: 1,06
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.
  • Dept: COMMUNITY NURSING, PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
    Area: NURSING
    Theoretical credits: 0,67
    Practical credits: 0,54

Study programmes where this course is taught