Abordagem da via aérea à pessoa em situação crítica

: relatório de estágio

Abstract

As part of Masters Course in area of Specialization in Medical-Surgical Nursing, comes the preparation of this report in order to describe the skills developed/acquired through various activities implemented not only for the career in context working in intensive care units, as throughout postgraduate training in the context of Emergency Room and Anesthesiology Department, to obtaining the title of Nurse Specialist in Medical-Surgical Nursing. The final work is based on a critical-reflexive methodology on practice. It also includes the theoretical conceptualization in various contexts of clinical praxis, and development of nursing as a discipline. It is considered the Theory of Transition Meleis (2010), the main conceptual support of this report, in that it puts the person on the centrality of nursing care, which in interaction with the environment, you need a booster for a positive experience the transition process health/disease. I define my intervention in skills Nurse Specialist in perspective responding to the Person and his Family, with nursing interventions that can be classified in its outcome, as actions that promote, facilitate or recovering health dyad Person/Family. The theme of the report relates to interventions by nurses in airway management in critical ill patients. This fact has motivated many of the activities on stage, while forming and the reasons for conducting the Systematic Review of the Literature that helped identify the "state art". Reports the nursing care provided to a person in critical condition, while maintaining the basic functions, preventing injuries and increasing the potential for recovery of the person throughout the anesthetic process and also in the context of urgency. It highlights the difficulties encountered in moments of learning and reflection, within the strategies and host communication with the person and their family; exposes the importance of evidence-based practice, by analyzing methodologies of nursing work, dynamics of teams nursing, drafting and analysis of standards, protocols and procedures, promoting quality of care and safe practices. This report includes three different perspectives, in three different contexts of nursing care, establishing a direct approach on the intervention of the Specialist Nurse as a model for action, change agent, in advanced approach to several issues and as a reference in care of excellence.

Date of Award	9 Jul 2014
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Patrícia Pontífice-Sousa (Supervisor)