Fallece la catedrática María Jesús Narvaiza, profesora de la Escuela de Enfermería de la Universidad de Navarra
María Jesús Narvaiza, professor at the School of Nursing of the University of Navarra, dies
Professor María Jesús Narvaiza, professor at the School of Nursing of the University of Navarra, passed away on May 8 after a long illness.
Born in Comillas (Cantabria), he studied Medicine at the University of Navarra, where he also obtained the Degree doctorate. She later specialized in Hematology and Hemotherapy at the University of Zaragoza. Since 1977 she has been linked to the School of Nursing at the University of Navarra as Professor of Medical-Surgical Nursing and Director of department Nursing from 1996 to 2002.
After studying at the University of the Basque Country to obtain his degree Chair, he returned to campus in Pamplona. During the first years of his professional career at work he combined his work at professor with his work as a doctor at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra. Dr. Narvaiza has authored or co-authored more than 50 works on Nursing, some of them related to the hospitalization of the elderly or the emotional and psychosocial repercussions in the lives of Parkinson's patients.
Those who knew her will remember her as a discreet, serene, hardworking teacher. She always available both at classroom and at laboratory , where she arrived punctually to fill the blackboard with letters and diagrams, at the same time that she was developing the contents. He loved teaching so much that he never left class to improvisation. Perhaps that is why, over the years, he confessed, "When I climb the stairs from Hexagon Building to classroom, I feel the same responsibility as the first day".
He was a much-loved person among the students and his colleagues at work. Not only for his sensible and accurate contributions, but also for his style: close, affectionate, available, partner and wise. Because he knew how to work with rigor and oriented his life to the essentials, in ideas and in conduct.
As she herself pointed out during the tribute paid to her by the University in June 2007, she learned her way of working from Dr. Ortiz de Landázuri, "who taught me, among many other things, to work with the utmost care for the patient and the family, and that there are no illnesses, only sick people".
Professor María Jesús Narvaiza received the Silver Medal of the University of Navarra in 2000.