Competências especializadas em enfermagem médico-cirúrgica

: contributos de um percurso

Abstract

The clinical practice settings are by excellence places where the nurse mobilizes, integrates and combines multiple and heterogeneous knowledge. This ability enables the development a set of skills, which in case of clinical nurse specialists, are structured in four common domains: (i) professional, ethical and legal responsibility; (ii) continuous quality improvement; (iii) healthcare management and (iv) professional learning development. These were the domains that guided the critical and reflexive appraisal on the learning experiences developed during the traineeships, carried out in the Emergency Department and Intensive Care Polyvalent Unit of a Hospital in Northern Portugal, which served as basis for the creation of this report, which falls within the scope of the Curriculum Unit – Final Stage and Report, included in the 13th Master's Course in Nursing with a Specialization in Medical Surgical Nursing from the Critical Care Nursing field, at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. The objectives of this report are to present the skills development pathway of the clinical nurse specialists in Medical Surgical Nursing, as well the recognition of competencies in the area of Pre-Hospital Nursing, through the conceptual framing of the professional expertise of clinical nurse specialist, the reflexive analysis of the learnings developed on the training grounds and, finally, the evidence of competencies recognition in Pre-Hospital Nursing. In this regard, I resorted to bibliographic research and critical reflexive analysis of the formative journey undertaken in both training contexts. Having completed the journey, I consider that the reflexive analysis of the activities developed on the training grounds will allow future decision making close to the level of expertise that is required of the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Medical Surgical Nursing from the Critical Care Nursing field.

Date of Award	28 May 2021
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Vasco Silva-Neves (Supervisor)