University Nursing Clinic

The Nursing discipline provides students with the theoretical and practical training needed to deliver safe, effective, and patient-centred care both in hospital settings and in the community, through a progressive educational pathway that begins in Year I with General Nursing and is consolidated in Year III through Community Nursing. Within General Nursing, students acquire the foundations of the profession and the nursing process as a standard method of practice, developing clinical reasoning, therapeutic communication, and fundamental practical skills through demonstrations, simulations, and applied work on clinical scenarios. These competencies are then expanded in Community Nursing, where students are prepared for the role of the community nurse, capable of working outside the hospital: assessing the community and vulnerable groups, identifying and prioritising health problems, planning and implementing community interventions, conducting home visits, case management, and health education, in collaboration with the family physician, social services, and local stakeholders. Teaching activities are student-centred and combine applied lectures with practical sessions and interactive case studies, aiming to build professional autonomy, ethical responsibility, and the ability to adapt to diverse clinical contexts, so that future nurses can intervene competently in patient care and in improving community health.

Course objectives:

• Developing and consolidating the nursing process as a standard method in patient care.
• Strengthening clinical reasoning, therapeutic communication, and fundamental practical skills.
• Preparing students for hospital care (General Nursing, Year I) and for community care (Community Nursing, Year III).
• Building competencies in community assessment, planning and implementing interventions, home visiting, and case management.
• Promoting safe, ethical, patient-centred, evidence-based care through multidisciplinary collaboration.