IDENTIFYING DATA 2015_16
Subject (*) INTERNATIONAL NURSING Code 18214205
Study programme
Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (2009) (Campus Terres de l'Ebre)
Cycle 1st
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period
3 Optional AN
Language
Anglès
Department Infermeria
Coordinator
MATEU GIL, MARÍA LUISA
E-mail marisa.mateu@urv.cat
Lecturers
MATEU GIL, MARÍA LUISA
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General description and relevant information The course aims to introduce students to the concept of nursing in other cultures and teach English vocabulary related to health.

Competences
Type A Code Competences Specific
 A11 Utilitzar el judici clínic en el procés de cuidar i desenvolupar plans de cures per a arribar a els estàndards de qualitat i la pràctica basada en l'evidència.
Type B Code Competences Transversal
 B3 Critical, logical and creative thinking, and an ability to innovate
Type C Code Competences Nuclear
 C1 Have an intermediate mastery of a foreign language, preferably English

Learning outcomes
Type A Code Learning outcomes
 A11 To develop his/her understanding of the influence of historical, philosophical, ethical, economic, political and professional factors on their own and others professional cultures.
Type B Code Learning outcomes
 B3 To apreciate the intercultural aspect of the nursing profession in the XXI century and the need to adapt to it.
Type C Code Learning outcomes
 C1 Understand instructions about classes or tasks assigned by the teaching staff.

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Module I - English as the common language
within the European Union
- Health related vocabulary
- The nursing profession
Module II - Making questions
- Illness and symptoms
- Hospital admissions
- A patient's report
Module III - Activities of daily living
- Living healthy
- Communication in nursing

Planning
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Competences (*) Class hours
Hours outside the classroom
(**) Total hours
Introductory activities
1 1 2
Lecture
A11
B3
C1
12 18 30
Seminars
A11
B3
C1
18 22 40
Personal tuition
2 0 2
 
 
(*) On e-learning, hours of virtual attendance of the teacher.
(**) The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies
  Description
Introductory activities Assesment of the student's proficency in English. Introduction to the course , the assignments and the assesment.
Lecture Basic concepts.
Nursing vocabulary.
Seminars Reading English articles related to health, culture and society.
Listening and comprehension exercices.
Exercices and practice of the vocabulary related to nursing.
Personal tuition The teacher will solve the students' doubts and questions individually when needed by the students.

Personalized attention
Description
Personal attention to help the students to acomplish the objectives

Assessment
Methodologies Competences Description Weight        
Seminars
A11
B3
C1
The students will present an assignment will guarantee the achievement of the specific objectives.
40%
Others  

Prova mixta de vocabulari, redacció i comprensió escrita i oral.

60%
 
Other comments and second exam session

En la segona convocatòria es farà una prova escrita i oral.


Sources of information

Basic Grice, Tony, Oxford English for Careers. Nursing Students book, ultima, Oxford University Press
Glendinning, Eric H; Holmström, B, English in Medicine, ultima, Cambridge
Parkinson Joy, Brooker Chris, Everyday English for international nurses, ultima, Churchil Livingstone
, www.oup.com/elt/global/products/oefc/nursing1, ,

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Other comments
Basic knowledge of English to attend and participate in classes. Attendance to the classes and participation is necessary to get a qualification.
(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.