Ana Choperena, professor of the School of Nursing of the University of Navarra, is in Boston continuing with the project Narratives and internship reflective: a program for the development of professional competencies in nursingtogether with international nursing expert Dorothy Jones. The purpose of the stay is to redesign the project NarratUN, as well as to present it to the nursing team of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Another of the objectives of the stay is to carry out with them an international validation of the assessment scales designed by the group NarratUN throughout this course to evaluate the narratives that have been developed through the training program. 

Professor Choperena is carrying out the stay thanks, in part, to the Fundación Caja Navarra/UNED, which has recently granted a scholarship to project.

NarratUN is a project that has started in the academic year 2016-17 and consists of the implementation of a program of training for all those nurses who are doing their specialization program in the Clínica Universidad de Navarra. Based on the tool of the clinical narrative, the nurses have reflected in their texts significant cases that they have experienced in their daily internship and which has allowed them, in the context of reflexivity internship, to reinforce certain aspects core topic of the relationship established between the nurse and the person being cared for, such as respect, intentional presence and knowledge of the patient. Likewise, the training program included theoretical training , discussion groups and personal interviews.