Basic skills

• BS6 - Understanding and having knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.
• BS7 - Students know how to apply the acquired knowledge and develop their ability to solve problems in new or little known environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.
• BS8 - Students are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgments based on information that, being incomplete or limited, include reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities associated with the application of their knowledge and judgments.
• BS9 - Students know how to communicate their conclusions and the ultimate knowledge and reasons that sustain them to specialized and non-specialist audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.
• BS10 - Students possess the learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a way that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.

General skills

• GS1: Ability to integrate knowledge about the current context of pediatric hospitalization, developing Child Life as a model of care focused on children, adolescents and families.
• GS2: Ability to recognize and evaluate the different situations of stress that children, adolescents and their families present during the hospitalization process, and/or undergo medical tests and techniquesand throughout the different stages of the evolutionary process.
• GS3: Ability to carry out an analysis of traditional care models that allow designing new therapeutic interventions in order to improve professional practice.
• GS4: Ability to identify and apply research methods and procedures in Health Sciences, adapted to the Child Life care model.
• GS5: Ability to apply management techniques, management and evaluation of teams of care for children, adolescents and families, interdisciplinary and/or multiprofessional.
• GS6: Capacity to lead, design and evaluate research projects in the field of paediatric care, both within and outside the hospital.
• GS7: Develop theoretical and methodological reflections and proposals aimed at the prevention and treatment of situations of vulnerability of children, adolescents and families, from a perspective focused on respect for human rights, the values of democratic culture, cultural diversity and gender.
• GS8: Capacity to design care programs based on the Child Life model in pediatric hospitals or in pediatric units of general hospitals.
• GS9: Capacity to develop care models based on creativity and innovation, aimed at improving the quality of care.
• GS10: Ability to establish pedagogical and therapeutic communication with children, adolescents and their families.

Specific Skills

• SS1: Ability to innovate and develop improvement proposals in the field of paediatric hospitalization.
• SS2: Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care plans integrating the specific part of Child Life, basically psychosocial care.
• SS3: Ability to assess quality standards in the field of paediatric hospitalization.
• SS4: Ability to identify stressful situations and contexts for the sick child and adolescent, hospitalized or not, and for their families.
• SS5: Ability to respond to situations of stress, pain, emotional impairment and terminal illness of children and adolescents, taking into account the participation of their families.
• SS6: Ability to identify educational strategies in the pediatric hospitalization process.
• SS7: Ability to identify and plan appropriate specific therapies in each situation.
• SS8: Capacity to lead, design, develop and evaluate research projects to facilitate evidence-based practice in the area of Child Life or Paediatric Psychosocial Care.
• SS9: Ability to enhance interdisciplinary work with other team members, professionals and volunteers.
• SS10: Ability to identify social risk factors in childhood during the process of hospitalization and/or illness.