The Department of Sant Joan oriented nursing students in their incorporation into clinical practice.

San Juan, February 2012.- the unit of teaching of the Department of health Alicante – Sant Joan d ’ Alacant, in collaboration with the direction of nurses, have been drawn up a nursing students host Plan ” which aims to care for and educate the students who are they incorporate practical clinics, to anticipate some basic aspects that can contribute to a better understanding of the Department and the Office of the health profession itself.

Joining the practice of nursing is an immersion into a new world for the majority of the students, which undergoes an amalgam of feelings such as fear of the unknown, concern about the vulnerability of the patient and uncertainty before the excess of information; at the same time, it involves the satisfaction to develop the responsibilities nurses caring for people in need, receive his thanks and recognition of practitioners and teachers to guide your training ”, highlighted the teaching unit, José Luis jury supervisor.

Understand, express, accept and integrate these feelings raised, according to jury, is a fundamental task of the student in order to facilitate a more harmonious relationship with himself, with the patient, family and care team, thus contributing to a greater personal and professional growth. The Plan of reception we have designed intended them support to achieve this goal and to facilitate their integration in this formative stage ”, has stressed the teaching supervisor.

Thus, the Guide comprises, firstly, a series of organizational sections, on the Ministry of health, the AVS and the departments of health, focusing in Sant Joan. At this point, reporting to students on the mission, values, location, architectural and organisational distribution of the hospital and nursing, human resources, units management chart and the motivation of the organization policy also provides content from the point of view of the humanization of healthon the rights and obligations of the patient and the appropriate management of suffering.

This manual includes a series of observations useful at the time of the incorporation, as it is the necessary identification of the student through the card provided by your faculty or school; the allocation of each student a teaching nurse and tips for the safety of the students. Also, refers them to the guide performance of Nursing: nursing procedures manual ”, edited by the Ministry of health, which can be found in each unit nurses of the health centre. Suggestions and tips contributed by students of previous courses, together with a list of links of interest, complete this material, which is hanging in the Intranet of the Department, within the reach of all professionals. He has also provided this guide to the different campuses with a nursing degree and is there available for the students.

In the Department de Sant Joan are to benefit from this plan more than 150 students from the faculties of health sciences which teaches nursing and centres of vocational training of the health branch, engaged in practices throughout the school year.