The School of Nursing received international certification for its good clinical practices

The process was carried out with the Ontario Nurses Association of Canada (RNAO), which has accredited career excellence in the care of patients and their families.

Author: Carlos Martínez Ramírez | October 26, 2023

The UTalca School of Nursing has been certified by the Nurses Association of Ontario of Canada (RNAO) for good clinical practices and commitment to patient care.

For Rector Carlos Torres Fuchslocher, this certification establishes consistency with the work carried out by the Faculty of Health Sciences, oriented towards quality and excellence. “Certifying ourselves as an academic institution that adopts these best practices is consistent with what our clinical centers are doing, and we hope it is a path that will lead us to higher quality and better patient care,” he said. -he emphasized.

This distinction is part of the Good Clinical Practice Program (BPSO), a global initiative of the Canadian organization, where a series of good clinical practice guidelines are developed which include recommendations for nurses, interprofessional teams of health, educators, leaders and legislators. improve outcomes for patients and their support networks.

This was explained by the director of the School of Nursing, Minerva Astudillo Olivares, who emphasized that, during this certification process, “we had to integrate these guides into the program, that is- that is, teaching them to students and training student champions, who are student leaders, but we also had to train our academics in this area.

In this sense, the fourth year nursing student of this university, Libna Alvarado Novoa, took over as president of the BPSO Champion Student Movement of the institution. The future nurse underlined that this program made it possible to generate “numerous cases of learning and promotion of these good practice guides. We visited retirement homes, hospitals and also carried out awareness-raising activities at university level. “It was all a joint effort with the teachers.”

Finally, the general coordinator of the BPSO program at UTalca, María Ester Muñoz Sánchez, explained that this certification process “has been a wonderful experience. Being able to integrate good practice guides and be able to implement them in everything that constitutes the curriculum of our career is a great success. In addition, this body gives us the opportunity to work with other universities and thus promote nursing and give it the value it deserves.