UIC Barcelona welcomes first-year students, involving them in a day for the development of nursing leadership. UIC Barcelona in its Nursing degree has been working for 3 years now to equip the new generations and make them leaders in the medical care field. For this, the nursing degree has managed to unify all the competences of the degree in 4 Core competences. Leadership is a systemic competence that needs others to be exercised effectively.
These are:
– Emotional intelligence, students need support to learn to better regulate their emotions.
– Strategic thinking, students must learn to capture, evaluate and discriminate ideas, to promote new points of view and propose solutions.
– Impact and influence, students must identify their ability to impact others, in addition to knowing their communication style, knowing how to transmit and listen.
– Teamwork, students must develop the ability to work together, planning and involving the group in decision-making.
On the first day, students complete a test to find out their personality profile (DISC test), and carry out a series of workshops to break the ice and create a good atmosphere. This is just the beginning of a whole series of activities that await them throughout their four years.
The DISC tool allows students to begin to get to know each other, allowing students to identify which behaviors predominate in them.
Based on the DISC tool, teams are created where the different personality profiles are represented, as occurs in real life, so that students develop both Core competencies in both group tutorials and individual consultancies in a transversal way. In turn, all the subjects of the degree have been transforming educational methodologies so that, from all angles, nursing studies exude the essence of leadership.