2020_07_02_ENF_summer_school

Between June 29 and July 1, School Nursing held the seventh edition of its Nursing Summer School, an academic and cultural experience, aimed at students of Degree Nursing at the international universities with which the School has agreement. This year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the participants were unable to travel to Pamplona and the course took place online. More than 60 students from the universities of Stirling, Indiana, the Portuguese Catholic University, Illinois (Chicago), the Campus Biomedical University of Rome, Birmingham, Hong Kong and the Catholic University of America participated in the course.

The Nursing Summer School 2020 began with a session at position by School professor Amparo Zaragoza on the nurse-patient relationship in a person-centered model . Afterwards, Professor Elena Bermejo spoke to the students about the role of emotions in promoting healthy lifestyles in children. Professor Barbara de Rose, from Indiana University, gave the last session of the day. In it, she gave students an overview of current events related to global health, explained how nursing students can become more culturally aware, and encouraged them to engage in a self-reflection exercise.

On the second day, Dominick Osipowicz and Daniel Naveiro, professors at the University of Pennsylvania, spoke about the U.S. healthcare system, its strengths and weaknesses, and how it affects the health of society. In a second session, Professors Osipowicz and Naveiro opened a discussion on the role of Advanced internship Nursing in the U.S. healthcare system and the unique circumstances that lead to autonomy from internship. The final talk of the day was given by position by Professor Susan McLennon, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, who focused on the topic of moral distress among nurses and Nursing students. In her class, students were able to learn about various methods that can help reduce such distress when faced with problematic clinical situations.

The final day began with a session given by School professorsJesús Martín and Maddi Olano on the experience of families in caring for a terminally ill person at home. "Families not only contribute to filling the gaps and deficiencies in the networks of social-health services for the terminally ill at home, but they also play a crucial role in their care, providing approximately 80% of the care," said Professor Martín. And Maddi Olano added: "Nurses must shift their end-of-life care from a solely patient-centered model to a family-centered one."

Next, Professor Marcia van Riper, from the University of North Carolina at Chapell Hill, gave a session on families living with genetic conditions and the role of nurses in those situations.

Juan Muro, from the teaching internship Unit at School, closed the course with a session on what it takes to be an international nurse. During the talk, students were able to learn the differences that occur when working in different regions of the world, identified what it takes to be a patient-centered healthcare professional, and understood the importance of acquiring specific cross-cutting skills for their daily internship .

The Nursing Summer School 2020 concluded with everyone's desire to meet again next year.