O enfermeiro especialista em enfermagem médico-cirúrgica na promoção do projecto de saúde do cliente crítico

Abstract

The present Report illustrates the path taken along the Probation of the second Master Degree in Nursing, and has referential integrity for the conclusion of the Specialization in medical-surgical Nursing. It fits in the Curricular Unit Report, and it constitutes a critical and reflective written testimony of the developed activities to acquire and to expand specific abilities in that area.The Probation consisted of a total of 750 hours divided in three Modules so that the developed abilities had contributions of distinct realities, such as the services of Surgery (Unit 2) and Emergency of the Hospital of Santo António, included in the Centro Hospitalar do Porto, and the Unit of Special Care/Burns of the Hospital of Prelada.The main goal of this document is to describe the activities developed in each module of Probation and demonstrate the acquisition of specific abilities in the area of medical-surgical Nursing. In order to achieve it this Report is divided in two distinct parts. In the first one it is described the process of development of abilities, through the exposition of the developed activities and its integration in the Project of Probation traced initially. In the second part it is proven the reflective capacity through the presentation of an innovative perspective on the role of the nurse specialist in medical-surgical Nursing: it will be the professional who not only steps in to attenuate the critical situations but, above all, to prevent them. On the other hand it evokes the plan of health of the critical patient as an ethical-deontological referential. The document culminates with the presentation of health indicators sensitive to the care of the nurse specialist in medical-surgical Nursing.The entire document is transversally supplemented with critical reflections and the demonstration of the capacity to integrate knowledge in practices and to adjust behaviors up to the excellence as nurse specialist in medical-surgical Nursing.

Date of Award	2012
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Maria Rocha (Supervisor)