They are differentiated by professional skills, years of study and fields of action. These are the bachelor’s degree in Nursing (third level) and the Higher Technician in Nursing (third level). The first is taken at universities and takes an average of four years of study, while the second is a purely technical degree, with two years of study, which is done in accredited technological institutes recognized by national authorities.
Thus, the senior technician in Nursing will be able to perform under the professional supervision of the Nursing graduate (who studies four years at a university).
The Higher Technician in Nursing career is one of the most demanded in the Bolivarian Higher Technological Institute of Technology (ITB)who has been training technicians for 20 years.
The graduate or graduate has a training of skills to work in a specific area of public and private health services, with professional skills to care for the patient, says Dr. Rosangela Caicedo Quiroz, dean of the Faculty of Health and Social Services of the ITB .
“(The graduate) provides basic nursing care by specialty to healthy people, sick people, family and community, at the three levels of health care; with responsibility, ethical, moral, political and ideological principles, as a member of a nursing team”, adds Caicedo Quiroz.
This technician is the ideal person to integrate multidisciplinary health teams, since he becomes a therapeutic instrument and a technical expert to work at the three levels of health care, with an emphasis on the community, says the dean.
Espíritu Santo University Technological (TES), in Guayaquil, is another of the institutions with growing demand in the Higher Technician in Nursing career. Health professionals transfer their knowledge to students, in addition to teaching and using up-to-date technological tools and equipment in the workplace.
“The student will be able to assess and identify changes in a patient’s health, will be able to administer safe medication, will be able to move around the surgical area, among other areas. The Higher Technician in Nursing can share their knowledge in hospitals or health centers where they can apply all their skills to the work of a nurse”, says Luissana Jiménez Fuentes, director of the Higher Technician in Nursing program at TES.
The Argos University Technological promotes the training of senior health technicians in technical careers in Nursing, Medical Emergencies, Comprehensive Care for the Elderly, Comprehensive Child Development and Physical Rehabilitation.
Its students strengthen their classroom training with the community outreach project called Medical Brigades, where they bring free preventive health care under the direction of their teachers. From January 2021 to April 2022, 2,827 patients in rural areas of the provinces of Guayas and Los Ríos have benefited.
The importance of empathy and communication with the patient are essential aspects in the training and development of students’ soft and professional skills. Since the nurse is the one who takes care of the physical and emotional integrity of the one who is caring for her, we cannot leave her needs aside
Monserratt Bustamante Chan, academic vice-rector of Argos
More technological details that offer a Higher Technician in Nursing career
Bolivarian Technological (ITB)
Tuition cost: $80 per semester.
Cost for academic periods: $125 per month (6 months lasts each academic period).
Modality: face-to-face in all vocational training subjects.
Duration of the technical career: two years or four semesters or academic terms.
Schedules: morning, evening and night. Also, intensive on weekends.
Technological Spirit Santo (TES)
Tuition cost: $100 annually. And $140 per subject.
Modality: face-to-face
Duration of the technical career: two years, which are divided into four modules of eight weeks each, per year, and open every three months.
Schedules: morning and night. You have to take and pass the pre or leveling course.
Degree in nursing
Graduates of the Nursing Degree from the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil (UCSG) come out with vast theoretical and practical knowledge to work in first, second and third level health institutions or set up their own human health care company. one of the universities that offers this degree, one of the five most demanded in Ecuador.
Due to their extensive knowledge, graduates can validate their degree in other countries and practice as a Nursing professional, is exposed in the UCSG, which highlights its accreditation by the Higher Education Quality Assurance Council (Caces), in addition to its trajectory in training leaders for the country and who venture internationally.
The face-to-face classes of the Nursing Degree begin this May 16, and those interested can apply until May 9.
There are 840 Nursing students at UCSG. And it has the capacity to receive 160 students in the first cycle, with infrastructure such as classrooms and simulation laboratories; basic science laboratories such as anatomy, biochemistry and parasitology.
Nursing at UCSG
Title: Graduate in Nursing.
Duration: 4 and a half years or seven semesters until the professional area and one year of internship, with a stipend for interns given by the health institutions where they have to do their internships.
Requirements: Copy of identity card, bachelor’s degree, conduct certificate, basic services form.
Costs: Entrance exam $90. Pensions starting at $214. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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