Breve viagem multicultural

Description

This report reflects the path followed in different training programmes of the 2º Master Course in Nursing - Specialization in Infantile Health and Pediatrics, from the Institute of Sciences of the Health of the Portuguese Catholic University: Child Health Care, Medicine/Surgery services, Neonatology and Paediatric Emergency, aiming to develop and to strengthen the competences required to intervene in more complex nursing care to newborns, children and adolescents (up to the age of 18 years old). They are these abilities that allow an understanding of the children and family and of the health processes/illness the one that more is displayed, as well as of the answers that present in specific situations thus to intervine in accordance with its necessities. The main focus on the different training programmes – Multiculturalism in Health Care – reflects a social phenomenon – immigration, that has become more evident on the Portuguese health care units’ dynamics. Portugal integrates a great diversity of cultural groups. Therefore, strategies to facilitate their knowledge and activities to promote a humanised care were developed for each training programme as a means to assure quality in the heath care provided to those groups, which is a universal right. The Chinese community, almost unknown, was subject to a brief approach and intervention in order to identify and understand practices related to their health and illness.

Period	24 Apr 2012
Held at	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Degree of Recognition	Master