This document is based on a placement of Pediatrics’ health care that took place between 19/04/2010 and 29/01/2011, in different caring contexts for child and family. This becomes with the purpose of showing the acquisition, development and integration of the several skills that will lead to a master’s degree in Nursing, in the main area of infant and child health care. Thus, as knowledge instrument, its primary purpose is to provide, in a global and coherent way, a synthetic and objective description of the work/activities undertaken in the different contexts of the placement. In order to achieve the aim and specific objectives of the placement, scientific, technical, cultural and human skills were developed as Nurse Specialist in Pediatric and Child Health in the areas of specialized care, care management and services, training and research. The placement took place at the Health Center of São Martinho do Bispo in Coimbra (Module I - Child Health) and at Santo André Hospital in Leiria (Module II- pediatric service and Module III - Pediatric Emergency and Unit of Pediatric and Neonatal Special Care. The methodology used was descriptive and reflexive. The critical and reflexive component is present throughout this document and it intends to convey the intent of the activities developed and performed. The meaning of the lived experiences and the enriching contribution has provided advanced and specialized nursing care, in a holistic perspective, to the child, adolescent, family and community. This work presents the acquisition, development and integration of skills/knowledge for advanced nursing care to newborns, children and adolescents, especially aimed at promoting the development and adaptation to health and disease processes. The focus of privileged nursing chosen was the safety promotion and accident prevention in children, transversal to the entire placement, for reasons connected with their social and professional relevance. Social, because childhood accidents, represent an important public health problem, despite of the development of the scientific-technological knowledge and the advances in medicine. Safety culture as it always existed. However, it is necessary to maintain this culture. It seems clear that to grow in safety it requires the development and consolidation of a social culture of security. Professional, because daily as a nurse practicing in a pediatric service, a significant number of children victims of accidents is faced. This is an emerging focus and highly sensitive to the intervention of a Specialist Nurse in Pediatric and Child Health, as a professional with knowledge, skills and abilities to a real understanding of the children´s growth and development, in their familiar and social environment. Children represent the future and ensure their safe growth and healthy development must be a primary concern of society in general and of health professionals in particular. So, at this stage of the placement, a multimedia presentation of transversal character was elaborated, entitled “Criança + Segura! Sem segurança ?? Sinto muito…”
Date of Award | Jun 2012 |
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Original language | Portuguese |
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Awarding Institution | - Universidade Católica Portuguesa
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Supervisor | Constança Festas (Supervisor) |
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- Nursing
- Nurse specialist
- Pediatrics and child health
- Child
- Promotion
- Child safety
Criança+Segura!: sem segurança?? : sinto muito...
Teixeira , P. F. (Student). Jun 2012
Student thesis: Master's Thesis