Project: Innovative Skills for Nurses
Funding Programme: Erasmus+ Programme, Cooperation partnerships in higher education
Project number: 2022-1-RO01-KA220-HED-000087854
Coordinator: Celeste Antão – Este endereço de email está protegido contra piratas. Necessita ativar o JavaScript para o visualizar.
Global Financial: 66.230€
Start Date: 01.10.2022
End Date: 30.09.2025
Official Web-site: https://innoskillsnurses.umfst.ro/index.php
Context
The motivation that backs up the Innovative Skills for Nurses project is related structural issues with national healthcare systems that came to light, with the COVID pandemic.
The project focuses on designing of complete educational programme, including comprehensive curricular solutions, high-standard practical training, skills development proposals at national and EU levels, to achieve excellence in the Specialist (SN) and the Advanced Practice Nurses (APN) qualification.
Aims
The main objectives of the project are:
- Develop an innovative Curriculum to be implemented in all partner universities for the training of Specialist Nurses (SN) and Advanced Practice Nurses (APN)
- Provide trainers and lecturers of in-service and student nurses with innovative digital teaching skills and methodologies that fit a student-centred approach in order to meet the students’ learning needs and reduce mismatches
- Create an online Repository of digital and virtual reality-based scenarios and diagnostic challenges to be used as teaching and learning sources to qualify nurses
Target Groups
The project is addressed to:
- Trainers and lecturers
- Students nurses
- In-serve nurses
Project Results
The main project results include:
- An innovative Curriculum for the qualification of Specialist Nurse and the Advanced Practice Nurse
- An online e-learning package on the application of modern online digital teaching techniques, on the use of medical virtual reality techniques to qualify Specialist Nurse and the Advanced Practice Nurse
- A Repository of digital and virtual reality-based learning scenarios and problem-solving diagnostic challenges to allow the development of important practical skills
Participating partners:
- Universitatea de Medicina, Farmacie, Stinte si Tehnologie George Emil Palade din Tirgu Mures, Romania
- Instituto Politecnico de Braganca, Portugal
- Klaipedos Universitetas, Lithuania
- Pixel – Associazione Culturale, Italy
- Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis, Greece
- GCS ES Rhena, France
Article Project:
Antão, C.; Antolí-Forner, A.; Fernandes, H.; Alves, S.B.; Pimentel, H. Current Nursing Education Considering Southern
Europe’s Reality and Legal Framework: A Two-Phased Research Approach. Nurs. Rep. 2023, 13, 1342–1353.
https://doi.org/10.3390/nursrep13040113
