Health Sciences Division Programs
Medicine
The Medicine program of the Health Sciences
Division of Universidad del Norte, created on September 14th
of 1974, seeks to form integral professionals in the medicine
field, with an optimal scientific-humanistic preparation in
order to solve health-related issues of the community and
understand the health-sickness problems, not only from the
individual point of view, but from the social and collective
one. Also, we seek to develop an individual with a high ethical
sense and social responsibility that contributes to the scientific
development of the region and the country.
Professional Profile: We seek for to form
an integral doctor, with an optimal scientific, social and
humanistic preparation, with capacity to assimilate and to
incorporate all the advances that the technology and the scientific
researches offer, and with a clear and precise sense of the
medical ethics and the social responsibility.
Action fields: A general doctor can evolve
in different levels from hospitable and pre-hospitable attention,
to working with the community, as well as in basic sciences,
and investigation. Its primary target is to improve the condition
of life of our society, focusing in diverse ways: the communitarian
and private medical practice in the different areas of general
or specialized Medicine; the administration of physical and
human resources in health, (clinics, hospitals, health centers
and medical services); the formation of new doctors and the
community through teaching; and scientific research.
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Nursing
The primary objective of the program is to
form a leading professional with a management focus, with
solid scientific, technical, social, humanistic and ethical
principles that will contribute to the elevation of the quality
of life of a specific population in order to provide attention
on an individual, familiar and communitarian level. The Nursing
program of Universidad del Norte will prepare its student
to:
- Value the specific situation of the persona, through
a systematic analysis of the environment that surrounds
them, of its social behavior and of their physiological
responses, to offer individualized attention.
- Work in coordination with families and community in
the identification and solution of health problems, and
in evaluate the consequences of the actions produced by
the subject in matter.
- Coordinate all health actions on an individual, familiar
and communitarian level, with other members of the nursing
team and other professionals.
- Manage individual attention required by a group of
patients in any of the stages of the health-sickness process.
- Promote inter-sector participation in work destined
to improve of general life conditions of families and
communities.
- Promote the development of the profession and existing
practices through active participation in professional
organizations.
- Execute clinical, epidemiological and social investigations
oriented towards the increase of knowledge towards the
human body and its health, its interaction with the environment
and the improvement of services to the population.
- Manage health programs that will contribute to the
optimization of the services offered to the individual,
the family and the community.
- Apply values and ethical principles that will reflect
the service and attention given by the nurse to the individual,
family and community.
By the proper characteristics of their formation,
the graduates of the program have capacity to evolve in the
following areas, among others:
- Hospital: In attention to people in services of internal
medicine, surgery, pediatrics, OBYGN, intensive cares,
neurology, and neurosurgery, psychiatry and geriatrics,
etc.
- Educational: Directing faculties or schools of infirmary
or as infirmary aids and/or participating in the qualification
of doctors, engineers and other professionals.
- Communitarian: Designing, executing and directing programs
of promotion and prevention of diseases to familiar and
communitarian groups.
- Industry: Coordinating programs of occupational health
and/or executing actions in medicine, hygiene, and work
safety.
- Administrative: Managing health institutions in the
public or private sectors and coordinating the functions
of the infirmary team in the primary, secondary and tertiary
level.
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