Mission

Contribute to the transformation of society, with emphasis on the Pacific Region, by training professionals in Nursing Care with a humanistic and ethical approach through teaching, research and extension with quality and social responsibility.

Vision

To be a School of Nursing recognized for its disciplinary, humanistic and ethical training committed to the professional practice of caring for people and their environment and to the development of research. 

The Academic Nursing Program of the Universidad del Valle is based on the idea that health is fundamental for the quality of life, therefore, a commitment to the development of this purpose is the training of nursing professionals equipped with theoretical and practical and humanistic tools that allow them to provide effective solutions. Therefore, the following objectives are proposed:

• To train nursing professionals with attitude, knowledge and disciplinary, social and research skills, who take integral care of people, families, communities and the environment.
• To promote the student's development in the cognitive, affective, ethical, aesthetic and political dimensions, during the basic and professional cycles, which will allow him/her to act integrally as a person, citizen and professional in society.

Minimum Admission Scores according to State Tests ICFES

Professional Profile

The training offered by the Academic Nursing Program enables its graduates to:

• Caring for individuals, families and communities throughout the life course in accordance with humanistic principles, ethical values, critical and reflective thinking.
• Manage health promotion, disease prevention, treatment and rehabilitation in individuals, families and communities.
• Perform care management functions in projects and programs of health institutions and territorial entities, based on the analysis of the determinants of well-being and quality of life of individuals, families and communities.
• Participate in the design and management of research, projects and programs that contribute to the improvement of social dynamics in health.

Occupational Profile

The Nursing professional will be able to exercise his activity as:

• Nurse in the different levels of complexity of institutional, educational and community health services.
• Health services manager and/or coordinator.
• Member of research groups.
• Independent nurse.

General Program Competencies

• Lead care based on disciplinary models and theories, basic and social humanistic sciences, through essential nursing processes for the preservation of life and the maintenance of health of individuals during the life course, families and groups, in diverse environments.
• Manage services and resources for nursing care in accordance with the concept of health as a right and current policies related to health promotion, risk prevention, disease intervention and rehabilitation of individuals, families and groups within the framework of quality guidelines.
• Assume nursing care with autonomy, empathy, ethics, responsibility, social commitment and respect for the rights of individuals, families and groups according to the cultural environment in order to promote, preserve and recover health.
• Apply knowledge, skills and attitudes inherent to the development of research activities for the resolution of care and professional practice problems.

According to the provisions of Resolution 048, Academic Council of March 14, 2019, the structure of the Academic Nursing Program is organized in two cycles: Basic y Professional, which include in a cross-cutting manner the components of General Training. 

The Basic and Professional cycles are conceived as the set of moments, experiences and formative experiences, complementary and articulated, expressed in the curriculum throughout the training process. 

El Basic Cycle, (41% of the Program's credits) provides the interdisciplinary foundations that serve as the basis for the Professional Cycle(59% of the credits of the Program) and this, in addition to becoming the horizon of the first one, provides the conceptual, methodological and procedural elements that enable the integral exercise at a professional level and makes possible the appropriation of the changing knowledge of the specific professional field of the academic program.

Subjects are organized into:Basic Subjects (AB), Professional Subjects (AP), Professional Electives (EP).

• The Basic Subjects provide the theoretical and methodological foundations and practical skills necessary for professional training. 
• The Professional Subjects give specificity to the nursing profession as a result of the experiences, traditions and agreements established by the academic nursing communities. 
• The Professional Electives allow to deepen in a certain area or field of Nursing.

Extracurricular activities are all those that allow students to strengthen their integral formation and participate more actively in university life, such as participation in film series, concerts, theater plays, art festivals, study groups, attendance to congresses and other events. 

The General Training, which corresponds to 20% of the total credits of the program, corresponds to the set of curricular and extracurricular activities that favor the integral development of the student as a person, citizen and professional, in its cognitive, affective, ethical, aesthetic and political dimensions. The curricular and extracurricular training activities respond to the principle of curricular flexibility and the student will choose from the offer for all academic programs. 

The components that make up the General Formation are: 

• Social and citizenship training: promotes the understanding of the complex social dynamics of the contemporary world and the formation of a political subject that recognizes diversity and interacts in a responsible manner, through the formulation of questions and problems that go beyond disciplinary boundaries and allow for a reasoned dialogue between values, methods and visions.
• Artistic and humanistic: promotes the development of sensitivity and aesthetic enjoyment, the appreciation of the arts in their multiple manifestations and specific cultural and social contexts; the exercise of interpretation and analysis of historical, philosophical, political and literary works; the creation of critical texts and the active participation of students in cultural life. 
• Healthy lifestyles: promotes care for oneself and others, respect for the common good, reasoned coexistence, recognition of diversity, physical, recreational and sporting activities leading to integral wellbeing and the construction of a university community with a sense of identity.
• Language and communication: A set of training activities aimed at strengthening linguistic skills in Spanish and other languages, allowing effective communication, access to diverse scenarios of social and cultural interaction and the construction of knowledge in general and specific academic contexts.
• Technological scientist: set of formative experiences in the understanding of the knowledge and practices of the techno-scientific sphere. It seeks comprehensive and transdisciplinary learning of the forms of reasoning inherent to logical-mathematical thinking; the knowledge generated at the frontiers of science and its articulation with technology; critical reflection on the history of natural sciences and technological innovation, transfer and appropriation. 

The Basic Cycle,is developed in the first four semesters, comprises 41% of the credits, and includes the areas of Basic Sciences, Disciplinary, Social Humanistic and General Formation, and has the following objectives: 

• Generate a logical thought process and creativity through the analysis of physical and natural phenomena.
• To promote competencies for the interpretation of the cultural processes of society, to understand ethical, legal and humanistic principles. 
• To promote the development of a positive behavior towards oneself and society through integral education.
• To favor the analysis of the biological aspects of human beings and the relationship with their psychosocial development.
• To favor the integral analysis of life situations and the implications of the individual as a human and social being. 

The Professional Cycle, is developed between the fifth and tenth semester, comprises 60% of the credits, and is distributed in the Disciplinary Area, Research, Basic Sciences, and General Training, with the following objectives:

• Generate competencies in nursing students to act with initiative and autonomy, assuming their responsibilities with ethical and human sense, respecting and advocating for the rights and duties of individuals and communities.
• To favor the development of a humanistic vision in nursing students, in order to assume responsibility for the care of individuals, families and communities in health situations, taking into account cultural, biological, psychosocial and spiritual aspects.
• To provide nursing students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to perform the functions of the profession: teaching, assistance and research, with optimum quality.
• To offer students formative experiences in management processes in institutional health programs and in independent practice with individuals, families and groups in natural and institutional settings.
• To generate basic competencies in disciplinary and interdisciplinary research oriented to generate new knowledge and technologies to contribute to the development of the profession and to improve or maintain the health conditions of the population.

 See Curriculum Structure (Spanish)