Belgian nursing directors visit the Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada.

Spain, 2012-June Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada has opened its doors to fourteen directors of nursing in the region of Antwerp (Belgium) with the aim to make known the health system of the Madrid community and more specifically the role of nursing and its scope of intervention in the health infrastructure of the Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada.

The visit began with the presentation by the Manager of the hospital Manuel of the bridge of the enterprise Public Hospital of Fuenlabrada to continue with the intervention of the director of nursing, Pedro Gómez, step to exhibit the level of skills of nursing in the Centre and the model of inter-branch relations which holds.

The specific characteristics of the model of teaching and training implemented at the hospital were set out by Jesus Ramos, supervisor responsible for them to then move on to develop the most innovative experiments carried out since its opening in 2004 in the field of management such as developed electronic clinical records of monographic way in her speech Isabel motto, supervisor of a hospitalization unit.

Special mention required competences shared between clinical and nursing as he thus defended him in his dissertation doctor Álvaro Páez, Chief of urology and pioneer in this form of management service. Another object of interest from Belgian managers, aspect has been the role of skilled nursing as it has pointed out the intervention of the Carmen Gil matron. The stay has been completed with a visit to the facilities.

The teaching of nursing in the Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada

The number of students with degrees related to nursing last year totaled 326 registering an increase of 11% compared to the year 2010. 173 students were for the nursing degree, 63 to the physiotherapy degree, 14 to the degree of occupational therapy and 52 were technicians in care assistants of nursing were formed in the Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada.

Regarding the teaching post degree notably 14 students who completed his master’s degree in emergency and critical care, emergency room and 10 which issued expert in nursing courses. The students came mostly from the Rey Juan Carlos University and the Universidad Europea de Madrid.