Mission

The Nursing program's mission is to comprehensively train human talent in Nursing with quality, with a spirit of responsibility, high ethical values in the qualified provision of Nursing care to contribute to the development and well-being of the person, family and community in the situation of health in which they find themselves and the social and ecological context in which they are immersed.

Vision

The Nursing program seeks to lead in 2030 the comprehensive training of Nursing professionals in our region and the country according to the health needs and priorities that society demands of Nursing, promoting its development and its permanent improvement within a framework legal, moral and ethical.

Beginning

The School of Nursing coordinates its principles in accordance with the mission and the PEI through a plurality of integrated actions and interactions, constituting an axiological environment so that an academic and educational community is shaped and consolidated.

Values

The Nursing Program of the University of Sinú Elías Bechara Zainúm - Cartagena Section was created by Agreement No. 002 of February 15, 2001, a rule issued by the Honorable Superior Council of the institution, this program is attached to the Faculty of Sciences de la Salud and received its first Qualified Registry through Resolution No. 6798 of November 1, 2006, added by Resolution No. 1266 of March 16, 2007 issued by the Ministry of National Education.

Posterior a la obtención de su primer registro calificado el programa inicio sus labores académicas en la Ciudad de Cartagena el 09 de febrero de 2007 con un pequeño grupo de estudiantes con vocación y con la intención de lograr formarse profesionalmente como enfermeros. A la fecha el programa de Enfermería ha contado con 4 directores de programa, la Enfermera y Magister en Educación Ruth Ballestas Uribarren, primera directora del programa, quien además participo en la creación de la especialización en enfermería neurología y neuroquirúrgica , posteriormente en 2013- II toma la dirección de la escuela Gloria María Navarro Arquez, Enfermera Especialista en Cuidados Intensivos, en abril del 2014 al 2021 asumió el cargo de la escuela la enfermera Guillermina Saldarriaga Genes, Enfermera, Magister en Gerencia del Talento Humano y Magister en Salud Sexual y Reproductiva, desde esa dirección se gestaron 2 programas interdisciplinarios: Maestría en Salud Pública y Maestría en epidemiologia, además de dos especializaciones: Enfermería Materno Perinatal y Cuidado de Enfermeria em Urgencias. A partir de septiembre de 2023 a la fecha asumió la dirección de la escuela la Enfermera y Magíster en educación con mención en pedagogia Martha Liliana Gómez Rojas.

The Nursing program of the Universidad del Sinú was born taking into account that nursing is a liberal profession and a discipline of a social nature, whose subjects of care are the person, the family and the community, with their socio-cultural characteristics, their needs and rights. , as well as the physical and social environment that influences health and well-being.

The exercise of the nursing profession has the general purpose of promoting health, preventing disease, intervening in treatment, well-being and contributing to a dignified life of the person and bases its practice on solid and updated knowledge of the biological, social sciences. and humanistic and in their own Nursing theories and technologies, this is how the nursing professional exercises his practice within an interdisciplinary, multiprofessional and transdisciplinary dynamic, and contributes to the sectoral and intersectoral work his knowledge and skills acquired in his university training and updated through experience, research, and continuing education.

Taking into account the above context, the nursing professional performs their functions in the areas where the person lives, works, studies, recreates and develops, and in the institutions that directly or indirectly provide health care.

In this sense, the mission of the nursing program is to comprehensively train human talent in nursing with quality, with a spirit of responsibility, high ethical values in the qualified provision of nursing care to contribute to the development and well-being of the person, family and community in the health situation in which they find themselves and the social and ecological context in which they are immersed.

Tomando en consideración los avances del programa de enfermería, en el año 2014 se presenta a la Asociación Colombiana de Facultades de Enfermería ACOFAEN, esta asociación envía una delegación para la verificación de las condiciones de calidad, la delegación estuvo integrada por la enfermera Miriam Duran Parra presidenta de ACOFAEN y el enfermeiro Oscar Javier Vergara Escobar secretario de la misma, es así como se recibe la aprobación para ingreso del programa en período de transitoriedad, esta categoría permite voz, pero no votación; sin embargo, pertenecer a dicha comunidad facilita el intercambio de experiencias y saber que fortalece el quehacer entre pares de tan connotadas cualidades éticas y académicas.

In 2019, after two self-assessment processes and the implementation of improvement plans (2016 and 2018), the Nursing program presents the documents established by Decree 1295 of 2010 for renewal of the qualified registration, the program was presented to the Ministry of National Education - MEN and receives a visit from the academic peers designated by the MEN on July 27 and 28, 2020 in order to renew its qualified registration, evaluate and analyze by the Colombian State the contributions and relevance that the program generates in the Educational System, this is how on July 21, 2021 Renewal of the Qualified Registration of the program is granted for 7 years.

The Nursing program has not only envisioned training from the undergraduate level, but has also worked so that its standards and competencies go beyond this level, which is how in 2018 it began its processes to submit to evaluation by of the Ministry of National Education to receive qualified registration at the postgraduate level. To date, the Program has two (2) master's degrees attached to its structure in the following order:

• On April 4, 2019, registration is received to offer the Master's program in Epidemiology - Resolution No. 003550
• On October 22, 2020, registration is received to offer the Master's program in Public Health - Resolution No. 019923.
• El 24 de mayo de 2023, se recibe registro para ofertar el programa de Especialización em Enfermería Materno Perinatal – Resolución 008546.

Related to being:

• Capable of assessing the general and Nursing health situation of the person, family or community in which they work.
• Able to criticize and communicate relevant concepts about Nursing diagnoses and interventions, to find a place in the health situation that the person, family or community presents.

Knowledge related:

• Able to identify, locate and interpret knowledge in the scientific, political, cultural, technological, social context and at a national and international level.
• Able to combine their humanistic and ethical knowledge, with the scientific-technical ones, when exercising their profession.

Related to doing:

• Able to provide efficient and quality Nursing care, according to each health situation experienced by the person, the family or the community, where they exercise their professional role.

Related to being:

• Able to estimate the educational needs of people, healthy or sick, in the natural environment and situation in which they find themselves.
• Able to assess the importance of teaching in the formal or non-formal training of human talent in Nursing.

Knowledge related:

• Capable of acquiring, contrasting, applying and evaluating the necessary knowledge to develop educational actions, according to the requirements presented by the people or the social context.

Related to doing:

• Able to work as a teacher in educational health processes for the population, as well as in the training of human talent in Nursing.

Related to being:

• Capable of valuing their role as leader in conducting Nursing or health services in general, as well as in the work teams that are formed.
• Able to estimate the importance of leading the right decision making, oriented to quality management and social service.

Knowledge related:

• Able to understand, analyze and apply the knowledge they possess when exercising their role as leader in the processes of administration and management of health services and Nursing.

Related to doing:

• Able to perform as a leader of health services and Nursing itself.

Related to being:

• Able to assess the importance of research, for the creation and verification of knowledge, as well as for proposing solutions to society's health problems.
• Able to estimate the importance of adopting research as a work tool to keep relevant and updated the knowledge necessary for optimal professional practice.

Knowledge related:

• Able to understand, analyze and apply knowledge about the scientific method to carry out orderly and reliable research studies.

Related to doing:

• Able to investigate about Nursing care, new forms of interventions, and their quality.

• Nurse (o) hospital services for children, adolescents, women and adults and older adults.
• Community services nurse for primary care, outpatient care and home care in the different entities and sectors of society
• Nurse in emergency services and intensive care.
• Nurse in Psychiatry and Mental Health services.

Resolution: 16729 of November 20, 2013. Valid until May 20, 2022

Resolution: 013125 of July 21, 2021. Valid until July 21, 2028

Nursing

• CRITICAL READ: 30%
• SOCIAL AND CITIZEN WOMEN: 20%
• NATURAL SCIENCES: 30%
• ENGLISH: 20%