SINGLE ANNEX

CURRICULUM FOR THE DEGREE IN NURSING CAREER

1. GENERAL BASES

1.1. PURPOSE

The purpose of the Bachelor's Degree in Nursing is to train a graduate qualified to provide
personalized, comprehensive and ideal nursing care in the health care of the individual, the family
and the community, through a firm humanistic attitude and a high ethical component. and adequate
breadth and depth of knowledge of nursing, in the biological, instrumental and psychosocial areas.
You will have clinical skills and a critical and flexible attitude that allows you to develop a
permanent updating process, taking into account scientific and technological advances, as well as
working in interdisciplinary teams.

1.2. TITLES

1.2.1 At the end of the 1st. career cycle, the title of Nurse is conferred, enabling:

❖ Plan, execute and evaluate nursing care at the primary, secondary and tertiary prevention levels
of medical care.

❖ Carry out and monitor compliance with therapeutic prescriptions.

❖ Monitor the patient's signs and symptoms in order to assess and report on their status and
evolution.

❖ Carry out prior preparation of the patient for carrying out diagnostic and treatment studies and
subsequent care.

❖ Carry out actions aimed at promoting health and preventing added risks and diseases.

❖ Supervise and coordinate the nursing team in hospital and community care units.

1.2.2 . At the end of the 2nd. Career cycle the title of Bachelor of Nursing is awarded, which
enables you to:

❖ Plan, organize, direct and evaluate nursing services.

❖ Carry out studies and research related to forms of care and control of patients at the levels of
prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.

❖ Participate in health improvement and health education programs.

1.3. PLAN FEATURES:

a. General characteristics:

The Bachelor of Nursing curriculum is structured to enable solid

training in nursing practice.
The contents and learning experiences are selected in the areas of
nursing in maternal, child, adult and elderly care in community and hospital settings; so that the
area of the profession is nourished by the contents of the biological and psychosocial areas, it
applies the methodologies of administration, research and health education, trying to ensure the
principles of continuity and sequence of knowledge.

Its organization is based on the following integrative axes:

-The human being as a bio-psycho-social unit

-Health disease process

-Professional identity

b. Cycles, areas and subjects:

b.1. CYCLES: the Bachelor of Nursing degree has a study plan divided into 2 cycles:
1st. Basic Cycle

2nd. Superior cycle

b.2. AREAS: the plan is formulated based on the following areas:

-Professional

-Biological

-Psychosocial

-Instrumental

b.3. SUBJECTS: the total number of subjects is 20 (twenty).

c. 1st. Basic Cycle

The particular objective of this cycle is to train the student to plan, execute
and evaluate nursing care at the primary, secondary and tertiary prevention levels of medical care.

Total subjects: 13 (thirteen)

d. 2nd. Superior cycle

The particular objective of this cycle is to train the student to work in the
field of research in nursing, service administration and health education.

1.4. TIME BUDGET

The Bachelor's Degree in Nursing lasts 5 (five) academic years with a total of 4,200 theoretical-
practical hours of which 2,520 hours correspond to the 1st. cycle and 1,680 to the 2nd. cycle.
 Total
YEAR SUBJECT Hs. Sem. H. Annual REGIME
1st cycle
1st.
Year
*Introduction to nursing 18 500 Annual
*Biology I 8 220 Annual.
*Psychology I 2 60 Annual
*Epidemiology 2 30 1st quarter
*Nutrition 2 30 2nd quarter

840
2nd. *Nursing in care
Year of the adult and elderly I 22 640 Annual
*Biology II 4 110 Annual
*Psychology II 4 60 1st quarter
*Psychology III 2 30 2nd quarter

840

3rd. *Maternal and child nursing 26 500 1st quarter

Year *Psychology IV 2 40 1st quarter
*Deontology and Development
Prof. in Nursing 2 30 1st quarter
*Integrated Practice I 30 270 2nd quarter

840
2nd cycle

4th. *Nursing in Care

Year of the Adult and Elderly II 25 360 1st quarter
*Nursing Education 5 120 Annual
*Nursing Administration
Community and Hospital 25 360 2nd quarter

840
5th. *Theories and trends in
Year Nursing 2 30 1st quarter
*Nursing Research 15 210 1st quarter
*Thesis 13 180 1st quarter
*Integrated Practice II 30 420 2nd quarter
840
1st. cycle 2,520 hours. with 13 subjects.
2nd. cycle 1,680 hours. with 7 subjects.
Total race 4,200 hours. and 20 subjects.
2. SUBJECTS AND DELIMITATION OF CONTENT

2.1 1st. Basic Cycle

a.Professional Area

1. Introduction to Nursing
 It introduces the student to the specific area of social work in nursing. It deals with
studying the general framework of society, its institutions, family and individual with their basic
needs, health-disease process and its levels of prevention, medical care system and its levels of care.
Provides knowledge and learning experiences to understand man as a bio-psycho-social
and historical unit from an individual, family and social perspective.
It analyzes the nature of the profession through current nursing theories, establishing
the theoretical and practical foundations of nursing as a service for the care of man.
Introduces the student to the methodology of scientific research, health education, the
administrative process and the problems of mental health.
Carry out learning experiences in the community, assessing basic needs of the
individual in different community and hospital institutions and collaborating in prevention measures
for the most common conditions.

2. Nursing in Adult and Elderly Care I

It includes the study of the adult and the elderly as a bio.psycho.social unit with
medical-surgical and psychiatric conditions of greater prevalence and incidence in the country,
using the epidemiological method.
It applies the scientific method aimed at satisfying the needs of healthy and sick
individuals in self-care situations at different levels of prevention.
Participates in decision making with the interdisciplinary team related to the
comprehensive care of the patient, family and community groups.
Applies the teaching-learning process to the individual, family and community aimed
at self-care.
Uses management principles in patient care.

Conducts selected epidemiological investigations.

Clinical experiences are carried out in Outpatient Clinics, Medical, Surgical and
Psychiatric Clinic inpatient services, with community outreach.

3. Maternal and Child Nursing

It enables the student to:

-provide nursing care to the newborn, child, adolescent and mother, understanding their
family and social context, relating content and experiences of Biology, Psychology and
nursing that precede it.

-meet basic needs by applying primary, secondary and tertiary prevention measures.

-implement nursing care to the aforementioned groups, affected with the pathologies
with the highest incidence in our environment.

-Develop a health education program for a community area.

-apply administrative principles when providing nursing care.

-execute selected epidemiological investigations.

-analyze social and health problems that influence medical care in the area.

The teaching-learning experiences are carried out in: external offices of Gynecology,
Childcare, Obstetrics and Pediatrics, Tocogynecology and Pediatrics rooms; homes school and
recreational institutions.

4. Deontology and Professional Development in Nursing

This subject enables the analysis of the ethical guidelines and norms emanating from
the moral and intellectual values that govern human behavior, from the perspective of the practice
and responsibility of the nurse in relation to their professional role.
The multiple interrelationships between ethical and legal aspects, the historical
evolution of nursing and participation in schools, professional associations and guilds are discussed.
It provides for the analysis of situations extracted from reality where the nurse adopts
different attitudes in daily practice.

5. Integrated Practice I

During this theoretical-practical experience, the student integrates the knowledge

provided in previous subjects in a hospital practice, in the maternal-child and medical-surgical
areas, applying the principles of administration, teaching-learning and research. Provides
personalized and comprehensive nursing care, with an epidemiological approach, using the
scientific method to solve the problems that arise and satisfy the needs of patients and family
groups, discussing the goals achieved in interdisciplinary seminars.
The student analyzes the institutional problems in which he or she is inserted, looking
for possible solutions in collaboration with nursing professionals and others.

b. Biological Area

6. Biology I

The purpose of this subject is to develop knowledge of anatomy, physiology, biophysics,

biochemistry, microbiology and semiological principles; for the purposes of integrating and
interrelating them with each other with the subjects of the degree curriculum.

Provides the applied biological foundation.

7. Biology II

Integrates and deepens the knowledge of the Biology I subject and develops the
pathophysiological mechanisms that provide the basis for professional subjects.

8. Nutrition

It offers the student the foundations for achieving correct individual nutrition, taking into
account the different age groups.
It provides the necessary elements for the student to understand the aspects of the preparation
and management of the normal diet and its adaptation to the different socio-cultural and religious
characteristics.
It relates the knowledge provided by the other subjects that are developed concomitantly, providing
the bases for the analysis, in subsequent subjects, of the adjustments that a normal diet undergoes in
situations of illness according to the different pathologies.

c. Psychosocial Area
 9. Psychology I

It studies the conception of the subject and its insertion in the different areas of
determination, analyzing the particularity and its internal laws, its dialectical relationship with the
environment and addressing it as a bio-psycho-social unit.
The problems of working conditions, mental health and the phenomenon of migration are
analyzed.
Elements are provided for understanding the family group understood as a basic unit of the
structure of our society.
In this subject, students receive elements of psychology articulated with specific subjects in
Nursing, fundamentally integrating theory and practice, putting into play doing - feeling - thinking,
addressing in practical work the needs that emerge from the movement of theorists and the field
experiences.
10. Psychology II

It includes the description and interpretation of psychological phenomena that

transcend behaviors and personality disorders.
Through the interview, the student can understand the patient and use appropriate
strategies according to his or her illness. The hypotheses discovered by the student in contact with
the patient are configured into work guidelines with the patient.
It analyzes the pathological process of primary and secondary illness, as well as
trauma, affects, anguish, symptoms and other aspects necessary for understanding it in children,
adolescents and adults.
The psychological intensification of the topics supported by the practical task on
specific cases of experiences with other professional subjects completes the learning of the subject.

11. Psychology III

In this subject, the main characteristics of the adult and the elderly are developed in
their physical, psychological and social implications.
The mobility of roles is analyzed in relation to the subject, inserted in production and
withdrawal from it.
In the practical work, the focus is on learning how to function as a team and on the
training process of the nursing role, from the equation person – role – field of work.

12. Psychology IV

In this subject, the necessary elements are developed to address the processes of
maturation and development, characterizing the different periods of pregnancy, birth, childhood and
adolescence.
The institutions that account for the training and care of the subject in its evolution
and the role of the nurse are analyzed, implementing them technically at each particular stage.
In the practical work, the contradictions mobilized from concrete experiences in the
hospital (Maternity-Maternity-Child Center) are reworked, regarding:

*marginalization vs. insertion

*passivity vs. active intervention

d. Instrumental Area

13. Epidemiology
 It covers basic elements for the use of epidemiological concepts in the provision of health
care services.
Initiates the student in the application of the epidemiological method in activities to
contribute to the diagnosis of community needs and epidemiological surveillance.
Includes Biostatistics content for better information management.
Provides contributing content to the subjects of the professional area.

2.2. 2nd. Superior cycle

a. professional area

14. Nursing in Adult and Elderly Care II

The student deepens the study of the needs of the patient, family and community, in
relation to the physical and psychosocial imbalances caused by the conditions with the highest
incidence and prevalence in the region and the country.
Analyzes the need and proposes alternative solutions to the crisis that arises in relation
to high-risk situations.

Plans, organizes, executes and evaluates nursing actions for high-risk patients with the
most frequent clinical, medical-surgical alterations and psychiatric emergencies.
Conducts selected epidemiological research and in-service experiences with medical-
surgical clinic, psychiatry, high-risk and community patients.

15. Administration in Community and Hospital Nursing

Subject deepens the analysis of data referring to the national health situation and the
country's health care system, taking the political and social reality as a reference. Therefore, its
content and experiences cover the administration of nursing care and the administration of services,
within a hospital-community integrative context.

The evolution of nursing in Public Health and the application of basic principles of
administration and supervision of services are analyzed within a social context of interdisciplinary
and intersectoral work with community participation.

At the level of peripheral effectors and hospital, the administration of nursing services
is studied, their interdepartmental relationship, the use of applicable policies in the use of human
and material resources, nursing participation in the organization of outpatient services,
hospitalization and emergency.

The nursing supervision process, its relationship with the administration and its
functions are discussed.
Experiences are carried out in the community, and in institutionalized effectors.

16. Theories and Trends in Nursing

Through this subject the student reflects on problematic situations of professional

work.

The new trends that affect nursing practice in our country, in Latin America and in
other countries are analyzed, and nursing theories are deepened.

17. Integrated Practice II

The student consolidates the practice of nursing care administration and the
administration of a health service.
Performs a diagnosis of the health and nursing situation, develops a plan, executes
activities with priority criteria and makes the corresponding evaluation.

Directs the nursing team or health group with a view to offering comprehensive care
and participates in technical-administrative decision making in the planning, execution and
programming of nursing and health care.
 It integrates the knowledge acquired in the preceding subjects into a practice that allows
you to gradually assume the role that corresponds to the Graduate in Nursing.

b. Instrumental Area

18. Nursing Research

The relationship of research with the scientific method, theory and science is studied,
highlighting the role of research in the generation of scientific knowledge.

New elements of statistical analysis of the data are incorporated.

The stages of scientific research methodology are developed and students apply them by
developing a scientific research project related to a nursing problem.

19. Nursing Education

Addresses the problems of the teaching-learning process in health education. The

student develops the stages of the instructional model in community education programs and in
service.

20. Thesis

The Thesis is an investigation into a nursing problem.

The Bachelor's degree in Nursing concludes with a thesis whose objective is to
demonstrate the training obtained in the development of research work on nursing problems.

The student must propose a Thesis Director, who will guide him in the work he intends
to do. Likewise, you will have to attach the written acceptance of the Thesis Director, an interview
schedule that includes until the date of delivery of the final written report.

A Thesis tribunal, appointed at the proposal of the Directorate of the Department of

Health and Nursing Methodologies, will be in charge of evaluating and approving the final written
report of the Thesis.

If this report is approved, a subsequent defense of the

Thesis.
3. COORDINATION
3.1 Horizontal coordination 3.2 Vertical coordination

Regularization Approval
FIRST YEAR
1. Introduction to Nursing
2. Psychology I
3. Biology I
First quarter
4. Epidemiology
Second term
5. Nutrition

SECOND YEAR
6. Nursing in the Care of the 1
Adult and Elderly I.
7. Biology II 3
First semester 8. Psychology II
2
Second term
9. Psychology III
2
THIRD YEAR
First quarter
10. Maternal and Child Nursing 6 1-4-5
11. Psychology IV 2
12. Ethics and Professional Development in Nursing
1
Second semester 13. Integrated Practice I
6-7-8-9-10

FOURTH YEAR 14. Nursing Education 4-6-7-8-10-11 1-2-3-5

15. Enf. In Adult and Elderly Care II 4-6-7-8 1-2-3-5-13
Second term
16. Nursing Administration 4-6-7-8-9-11 1-2-3-5-13

Community and Hospital FIFTH YEAR

First quarter 1st and 2nd.
17. Theories and Trends in Nursing 10-12 year
18. Nursing Research 15 or 16 1st and 2nd.
19. Thesis 18 year
Second semester 20. Integrated Practice II
15-16 1st. Cycle
Correlativities to TAKE THE FINAL EXAM
Regularization Approval
a) Chronological b) Correlativities of course
order
1. Introduction to Nursing
2. Psychology I
3. Biology I
4. Epidemiology
5. Nutrition
6. Nursing in Adult and Elderly Care I 2-3-5 1
7. Biology II 5 3
8. Psychology II 2
9. Psychology III 2
10. Maternal and Child Nursing 7 1-4-5-6
11. Psychology IV 2
12. Deontology and Professional Development in 2-3-5 1
13. Integrated Practice I -
14. Nursing in Adult and Elderly Care II 1st and 2nd. Year-
15. Nursing Education 10-11 1st and 2nd. Year
16. Administration in Community and Hospice Nursing. 11 1st and 2nd. Year-
17. Theories and Trends in Nursing 10-12 13 1st and 2nd. Year
18. Nursing Research 14 or 16 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
19. Thesis Year 18
20. Integrated Practice II -