The Faculty of Nursing at the University of Girona has for years had a solid network of international relations with other nursing faculties in Europe and the rest of the world. This network facilitates the exchange of students from different courses, who teach and promote joint studies with other universities.
International mobility enables students to get to know other university and health systems, as well as different professional approaches. It also helps develop multicultural skills, improves personal skills such as confidence, capacity of resolution and decision-making, creativity and flexibility, and notably enriches communication and language skills.
We are pleased to see how, every academic year, there is growing interest in doing an exchange period at our Faculty, an institution committed to an academic culture based on health and focused on the individual.
There are various mobility programmes by means of which you can come as an exchange student:
- ERASMUS+ for Studies
- ERASMUS+ for Traineeships
- PROMETEU
- SICUE
The Bachelor's degree in Nursing allows various subjects to be done in English:
Practicum 4
The content for this subject is developed in the advanced hospital area, where clinical placements in various hospital services are carried out. It allows students to take on and consolidate professional skills integrating clinical practice with knowledge, skills and nursing attitudes, based on the people-centres principles and values. In all healthcare areas and at all levels where placements are carried out, while the usual vehicular language is Catalan or Spanish, students have a tutor who uses English as a means of communication to facilitate the student’s learning and integration.
Practicum 5
This subject includes professionalising practises through a rotational clinics in hospitals and other care centres. It allows students to acquires professional values, care communication skills, clinical reasoning, clinical management and judgement, as well as care for people with prevailing health problems in the areas of obstetrics, gynaecology, paediatrics, critical patients, emergencies, geriatrics and the surgical unit.Person-centred nursing knowledge, skills and attitudes are also integrated into professional practical.In all healthcare areas and at all levels where placements are carried out, while the usual vehicular language is Catalan or Spanish, students have a tutor who uses English as a means of communication to facilitate the student’s learning and integration.
Problem-based learning (PBL)
It is important to underline that the faculty offers the possibility of Problem-based Learning in English in the first, second and third year of the Degree in Nursing.This methodology is developed through work on cross-cutting cases that make up the content for the different subjects in each academic year.
Before arriving:
Once you have completed all the steps of the process shown on the OI website, you should fill in the Faculty of Nursing's specific application documents and prepare the following documentation:
- Learning agreement (choose it according to the programme you are doing the exchange through):
- Health and civil-liability insurance
- European Healthcare Card
- Certificate confirming you have no criminal record for sex-related crimes
- Copy of your passport
- Copy of your national ID card
- Telephone number
A copy of all these documents has to be sent by email to: pim.areasalut@udg.edu