IN11T1A - PROFESSIONAL TRAINING (FIRST YEAR, FIRST SEMESTER)

The Internship, in compliance with the provisions of the Teaching Regulations in Article No. 3 "Specific training objectives and expected skills", aims to develop technical-operational, relational and clinical reasoning skills and to adopt a professional conduct that is ethically and deontologically correct.


EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
During the first-year internship, under the supervision of a clinical tutor, the student:
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- Assesses their expectations and initiates initial socialization with the nursing role;
- Identifies behavioral measures to prevent occupational risks for their own and others' safety;
- Identifies appropriate methods and tools for assessing the problems/needs of patients admitted in low/medium complexity medical/surgical settings;
- Identifies basic nursing care issues and the care priorities of admitted patients;
- Understands the professional relationship with patients and their families or caregivers.


ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- Apply the principles necessary to protect their own and others' safety (staff and patients);
- Adopt occupational risk prevention strategies;
- Ensure nursing care, based on the best available evidence, respecting safety, dignity, advocacy, and confidentiality, for patients cared for at different stages of life.
- Conduct first-level nursing assessments for compromised patterns, applying various methods such as observation, interviews, physical examinations, and consultation of direct and indirect sources;
- Record vital signs and anthropometric measurements and recognize normal/altered ranges;
- Use quantitative and qualitative measurement tools to detect and compare care phenomena and/or their risk of development (risk assessment scales and care indices);
- Identify actual or potential nursing care problems for the patient;
- Implement preventative and curative/treatment measures for pressure ulcers;
- Implements fall prevention interventions;
- Manages urinary and fecal elimination in non-self-sufficient patients.
- Identifies and prevents dehydration problems;
- Manages mobilization and transfers of non-self-sufficient patients;
- Under the supervision of the clinical tutor, administers medications by oral, sublingual, inhalation, intradermal, subcutaneous, and intramuscular routes, applying safety principles and recognizing desired therapeutic effects and adverse reactions;
- Provides the patient and/or caregiver with information to promote health maintenance and/or recovery;
- Documents the nursing care planned, delivered, and evaluated under the supervision of the clinical tutor.


JUDGMENT MAKING
- Selects occupational risk prevention strategies to ensure their own safety and that of others;
- Selects appropriate times and spaces for conducting nursing assessments;
- Identifies the care priorities of patients admitted to low- to medium-complexity medical/surgical settings;
- Assumes responsibility for their own actions and the care outcomes achieved;
- Seeks ongoing dialogue with the clinical tutor in new and/or more complex situations;
- Reports to the tutor errors or near-errors that may impact the patient's health.
- Demonstrates behavior consistent with the guidelines set forth in the Teaching Regulations and the rules of professional ethics and ethics.


COMMUNICATION SKILLS
- Activates and manages the supportive relationship with the client, their family, and significant others.
- Ensures effective communication through the use of verbal and nonverbal cues, facilitating understanding and expression of emotions.
- Supports the client in self-managing caregiving issues of medium to low complexity.
- Interacts with other professionals involved in the care process, respecting their areas of responsibility and expertise.


LEARNING SKILLS
- Critically reflects on their learning expectations with respect to clinical practice models and debriefings with the tutor;
- Critically reflects on the emotional impact of the first internship experience, the difficulties encountered, the expected and unexpected aspects, and the strategies implemented or implementable and their effectiveness;
- Discusses the experience of a supervised internship with second- and third-year students;
- Critically reflects on the healthcare/clinical situations experienced during the internship;
- Seeks supervision and feedback from the clinical tutor, teaching assistant, or senior student in clinical learning contexts;
- Reflects on the learning process and identifies their own needs for acquiring the expected skills;
- Actively contributes to their own learning by offering complementary learning experiences and activities;
- Develops independent study skills in analyzing healthcare cases.