348 students from the School of Nursing begin the second semester of the e-practicum, a pioneering training internship system that involves 508 professionals during this 2014-2015 academic year. This is a computer program specifically designed by the academic center that facilitates the management and the development of their Tutored Clinical Practices (Practicum)".

For Virginia La Rosa, coordinator of Practicum, "the human component of our profession requires nurses who acquire a scientific knowledge and are able to reflect, make decisions and foresee necessary interventions from agreement to the needs of each person". She continues, "the e-practicum financial aid helps our students to shape their critical thinking in a progressive and continuous way, and to achieve adequate feedback from their tutors (nursing professionals), which is so important in any reflective process".

In this way, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students of Degree in Nursing are supervised and advised by a team multidisciplinary composed of nurses from reference letter, supervisors, mentors, teachers and managers. These professionals attend to the students in the 80 Teaching Units of the various health centers in Navarra with which the academic center has agreements with partnership. Thus, the students can rotate their training as future professionals at the Clínica Universidad de NavarraThe students can rotate their training at the San Miguel Clinic, the Padre Menni Clinic, the San Juan de Dios Hospital, the Navarre Health Service SNS-Osansunbidea and various Geriatric Social Health Centers.

Use of new technologies for another way of nursing education

The e-practicum is an informatics tool created to favor the development of the practical training process of Nursing students. It consists of a system that allows the management of the entire internship, from the assignment of students to their modules and learning units to online communication with all the agents involved. At the same time, it allows for an in-depth formative-evaluative process of the student thanks, mainly, to the reflective diaries, a unique guide of self-assessment elaborated by the student that, together with the evaluations of the nurse mentor and the nurse of reference letter make up the final grade of student.

Juana María Senosiáin, professor manager of Practicum I, explains that "this pioneeringtool enables the student an active and participatory learning with which it achieves the professional skills necessary to provide a global and individualized nursing care focused on the patient".