Description

This program will enable you to acquire technical skills and abilities in expert examination nursing, through a powerful audiovisual system and the opportunity to do online simulation and/or specific specialization workshops” 

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This professional master’s degree allows students to unite the scientific application with the practical part already practiced, adding at the same time an adaptation to new technologies with the implementation of online education. It enables students to learn the basic principles required to study forensic thanatology, forensic pathology, forensic sexology, forensic toxicology, forensic psychiatry, damage assessment, anthropology, and criminology.

This high-level specialization meets the needs of professionals who demand adequate knowledge to enable them to carry out forensic assessments and expert reports, as well as the ability and fluency to ratify their opinion and understand the stages in legal proceedings when required. At the same time, it offers students the opportunity to learn how to assess not only personal or bodily injury, but also to quantify negligence, assess and determine disabilities.

Currently, law firms and private clients require a forensic expert examination for most of their procedures. It is for this reason, in addition to the lack of existing professionals, that TECH considers it appropriate to implement a correct, up-to-date, and especially useful syllabus for daily practice in this professional area.

The program includes practical activities to facilitate students' acquisition and mastery of the theory learned, supporting and complementing the knowledge acquired in the theoretical teaching. The contents are presented in an attractive and dynamic way and in multimedia packages that include videos, images and diagrams that serve to reinforce knowledge.

After passing the assessments for the professional master’s degree, graduates will have acquired the necessary professional competences to conduct quality and up-to-date praxis.

With this specialization you will learn to identify whether injuries are vital, perimortal or post-vital, quickly and effectively”

This professional master’s degree in Expert Appraisal and Personal Injury Assessment for Nursing contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

  • Case studies presented by experts in Expert Appraisal and Personal Injury Assessment for Nursing
  • The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
  • Practical exercises where the self-assessment process can be carried out to improve learning
  • Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies
  • Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
  • Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

This professional master’s degree is the best investment you can make when selecting a refresher program, for two reasons: in addition to updating your knowledge of Expert Appraisal and Personal Injury Assessment for Nursing, you will obtain a qualification endorsed by TECH Technological University”

The teaching staff includes professionals from the field of Forensic Nursing, who bring their experience to this program, as well as renowned specialists from leading scientific societies. 

Thanks to its multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, professionals will benefit from situated and contextual learning, namely, a simulated environment that will provide immersive learning programmed to learn in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise throughout the program. For this purpose, professionals will be assisted by an innovative, interactive video system developed by renowned experts in the field of Forensic Nursing who also have extensive teaching experience.  

Increase your decision-making confidence by updating your knowledge through this professional master’s degree"

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Throughout these months of specialization, you will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to classify types of blood stains and correctly process samples"

Objectives

The program in Personal Injury Expert Examination and Assessment Nursing is designed to help nursing professionals act in forensic and legal environments when their clinical experience is required. The knowledge acquired in the development of the points of the syllabus will drive the professional from a global perspective, with full capacity to achieve the proposed goals. Students will fully develop their skills in the field of nursing, which is versatile, global and essential, and a high demand for professionals. To this end, TECH establishes a series of general and specific objectives to fulfill future graduates’ expectations.

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This professional master’s degree is designed for you to update your knowledge in Expert Appraisal and Personal Injury Assessment for Nursing, with the use of the latest educational technology, to contribute with quality and confidence to decision-making in this new field” 

General Objectives

  • Update knowledge through special training and interest in the field of Expert Appraisal and Personal Injury Assessment for Nursing
  • Promote work strategies based on a comprehensive approach to the expert witness as a reference model to achieve expert-level excellence
  • Encourage the acquisition of technical skills and abilities, through a powerful audiovisual system, and the possibility of development through online simulation workshops and/or specific training
  • Encourage professional stimulation through continuing education and research

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Introduction to Forensic Nursing

  • Identify the most common data collection techniques
  • Develop a protocol to follow for emergencies
  • Analyze the most effective tools to treat patients
  • Define the different research techniques used in forensic nursing

Module 2. Causes and Phenomena of Death

  • Define the process for conducting criminological examinations
  • Identify the main causes of death in patients
  • Extend patients’ lives

Module 3. Forensic Pathology I

  • Define the medical-forensic aspects of personality disorders
  • Define the relevant aspects for the identification of possible aggressions
  • Define the relevant aspects for the identification of possible aggressors

Module 4. Forensic Pathology II

  • Define secondary pathologies in aggressors and their physical characteristics
  • Identify aggressor behavior

Module 5. Damage Assessment

  • Explain the mechanism of the most common vehicular traffic accident injuries
  • Define the mechanisms of death

Module 6. Investigating Accidents

  • Describe the process of forensic evidence collection
  • Explain the principles of storing and transporting samples
  • Describe the different cadaveric phenomena
  • Identify whether injuries are vital, perimortal or postvital

Module 7. Forensic Science

  • Explain the process of removal of the body
  • Define the process of assessment of expert evidence
  • Describe the code of ethics of the judicial expert

Module 8. Criminology

  • Explain the principles of forensic genetics
  • Define the concept of chain of custody
  • Analyze possible fraud in the event of claims and accidents
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Professional Master's Degree in Expert Appraisal and Personal Injury Assessment for Nursing

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In the healthcare field, the practice of physical impairment assessment is considered an impartial tool that helps in the identification of an individual's bodily conditions as a reaction to a temporary or long-lasting harmful event. Therefore, the function of health professionals is to be trained in this specific branch that allows them to attend and understand the different causes of bodily injuries and the legal implications that may arise from the different types of findings. In the Professional Master's Degree in Expert Appraisal and Personal Injury Assessment for Nursing, professionals will be trained in the analysis of the different stages of an investigation, so that with the utmost rigor of medical and legal sciences they can practice in the best possible way. The curriculum includes several clinical and legal cases, based on real patients, where they will have to investigate, create one or multiple hypotheses, and provide a solution to the situation presented. In the same sense, skills for professional practice will be stimulated, thus having the ability to analyze, weighing information, issuing reports, and finally, written or oral communication skills.

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This program is developed over one year and consists of eight modules, in which you will delve into the initiation to forensic nursing, causes and phenomena on death, damage assessment, accident investigation, criminology, among other topics. All of the above was designed with the objectives of updating knowledge and promoting work strategies based on models in the forensic consecution, as well as understanding each part of the curriculum from a global and assertive perspective. The teaching staff will guide the enrolled students to comprehensively understand the context in which the trauma of a body is located, as well as study the possible origin of the injuries, from circumstantial and tangible evidence to subsequently respond to the criminal and civil implications, and thus in this way can be established with objectivity positions about any theory and communicate an opinion.