Imobilização da pessoa com suspeita de traumatismo vertebro-medular

Abstract

The present report arises within the scope of the 15th Master’s Degree in Medical-Surgical Nursing in the Specialization area of the Person with Critical Illness at the Nursing School (Lisbon) of the Institute of Health Sciences from the Portuguese Catholic University and it aims to obtain a master’s degree and the title of nurse specialist in medical-surgical nursing in the area of person with critical illness. On it I intend to describe the goals and activities conducted in the internships: master skills, common competencies and specific competencies of nurse specialist acquired and developed in those contexts through a descriptive and critical-reflective methodology using bibliographic research for scientific substantiation. Virginia Henderson’s theory of human needs was the theoretical support for this report and the practice of nursing care to the person with critical illness in the internships. Regarding the structure of this report, in the introduction some essential concepts are defined. Next, in the first chapter, it is produced a scoping review about the immobilization with backboard of adults with suspected spinal cord injury in pre-hospital care and emergency department for the development of master skills, specifically in research. In this academic and professional path internships were carried out in two units: neurocritical intensive care unit and medical-surgical intensive care unit in a hospital in the Lisbon area and in the second chapter a characterization of both internship units is made. In the third chapter I expose the goals defined for each internship and highlight the activities carried out to achieve them through their description and reflective analysis in order to develop master’s skills and competencies of a specialist nurse in medical-surgical nursing for person with critical illness, highlighting the anticipation of instability, administering complex therapeutic protocols and prevention and control of infection. Lastly, in the conclusion, a reflection is made on the professional development achieved based on the skills acquired and developed along this path, reckoning that this path has contributed for de dynamic evolution of my specialized nursing practice.

Date of Award	4 Dec 2023
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Sérgio Deodato (Supervisor)