title: [Educational innovation on the practices for the subjects of community nursing, mental health nursing and geriatric nursing].
abstract: The new European space for higher education requires changes in education manners as well as execution. One of the main challenges is for the students to acquire competence in their professional life. For that purpose they require knowledge, but also skills and a proactive attitude towards learning. In this paper we tell the experience of the Virgen de las Nieves School of Nursing in Granada, with regards to the integration of the practices for the subjects of Community Nursing III, Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, and Geriatric Nursing, which are taken in the third year of the Diplomatura en Enfermería degree. Said practices, which were previously being offered separately within different contexts, will be merged in the same program whose scope will be Primary Care. We believe that the experience has been very positive by looking both at the results and the satisfaction of the students and the professional lecturers. It has been achieved an increase in the number of community care practice hours, and students have managed to acquire more autonomy in their learning and to incorporate critical reasoning in their education. In the methodology used, they have been the main evaluators and protagonists in their learning process, seeking the implication of professionals and teaching tutors in this change. The consensus on the objectives and methods, along with the obstacles which had to be overcome, constitutes one of the most interesting aspects of this experience.
authors.affiliation: Escuela Universitaria Virgen de las Nieves, Granada. cristina.heierle.sspa@juntadeandalucia.es
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Heierle Valero
authors.forename: María Dolores
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Cano-Caballero Gálvez
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guillamet Lloveras
authors.forename: Matilde
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Celma Vicente
authors.forename: José Ignacio
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Garach Mirasol
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education*