The current nurse profession has been influenced by socioeconomic changes and the evolution of the discipline itself. This has led to the incorporation into the practice of nurse of philosophical models based on scientific evidence, which have made it necessary to promote nursing leadership as a key element in the development of the nursing profession.

The knowledge that is generated from nursing research is used to improve professional practice, the quality of care and achieve optimum results and efficient and efficient nursing interventions.

The nursing professional needs to integrate the concepts of management, health policy, model and health system, and how these factors influence the quality of processes and their impact on the healthcare system.

• Analyze the differential characteristics that identify the Nurse profession and reflect on the professional behavior and its characteristics.
• Identify professional nursing competencies.
• Know the need for professional development and career.
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• Generate motivation for leadership in the nursing profession.
• Know the scientific method and work based on the scientific evidence applied to the nursing profession.
• Distinguish research methods and recognize the instruments that are used
• Know how to make a bibliographic search through the databases proposed and evaluate the information of the different documentary sources.
• Set up a research project, which includes the research questions or hypotheses and the objectives.
• Learn to make oral communications using verbal and non-verbal language.
• Recognize the implications of the different conceptual models in nursing practice.
• Describe the concept and the agents to participate in the health policy of the government and describe its function and its influence.
• Identify the formulation of policies related to the governance of the health system and health services, and how it can affect the development of professional nursing in the healthcare system.
• Know the different models of organization of healthcare companies.
• Know different ways to finance the health system.

The subject is organized:
• Activities aimed at the classroom with the participation of students.
• Tutored activities, dedicated to case seminars.
• Individual work dedicated to the elaboration of the evaluation activities, reading of resources uploaded to the campus.

The subject has a classroom in the virtual learning environment as a tool for teaching and communication support

Each of the continuous assessment activities must be exceeded with a minimum score of 5 in order to approve the continuous assessment. Otherwise you will have the option of the final evaluation.

The student who does not pass one or more of the continuous assessment activities, has the option of carrying out the final evaluation of the suspended activity. All the activities must be exceeded with a minimum score of 5 to be able to opt for the average of the course.

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The teaching staff reserves the right to make an oral test about any delivery to validate the final mark, both in continuous evaluation and final evaluation.