Na conquista da especialização em enfermagem

Abstract

The report refers to the 3rd Nursing Masters Course, with specialisation in Medical Surgical Nursing in the traineeship curricular unit. The completion of this report has allowed the continuation of the internship project, which was based on the general objectives stated in the internship supervision guide. The report is divided into four main areas: care, care management, professional, ethical and legal responsibility and learning. In each one of these areas the activities and achievements of the internship, the learning process, the activities and the objectives attained during the internship, difficulties and strategies to overcome problems so as to achieve a higher level of quality and complexity in the boundaries of Medical-Surgical specialisation and other problemsolving strategies were all approached in a reflexive manner. In developing the report, we used a descriptive methodology, based on the internship project, the internship supervision guide, observation, reflection and literature related to various issues. The guidance and the enlightening discussions with the orientator teacher were also of the utmost importance. The main purposes of the report are to determine how and to what extent the objectives were achieved, to give visibility to the activities, to reflect critically upon the learning process by reporting more complex problematic situations, and last but not least to show how the acquisition and development of skills was accomplished. The implementation of this project not only contributed to the development of knowledge and skills, but also to the fundamentation of health care as well as the development of technical and scientific expertise, thus contributing to our development, not as mere providers of care, but as future Nursing specialists in the Medical-Surgical area. In short, it is fair to say that learning focussed on the following aspects: the management of nursing care in the specialization area, the development of specific knowledge, the demonstration of critical awareness to the problems of professional practice related to the client/family; the adequacy of different methods for analyzing complex situations according to an advanced academic perspective, the formulation and analysis of problems of wider complexity related to an independent, systematic and critical training in Nursing.

Date of Award	2013
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Patrícia Coelho (Supervisor)