(Re)centrar os cuidados centrados na família em enfermagem de saúde infantil e pediátrica

Abstract

This report aims to describe and analyze the personal and professional experience and the competences of the candidate to Specialist Nurse, following the completion of internships in children health and pediatric nursing. The internships were designed to develop the trainee’s general and specific competences in children/youth health nursing. Another aim was to promote and support the development of Family Centered Care (FCC) practices in healthcare facilities. The clinical practice – Module I “Child Health” was held at Centro de Educação para o Cidadão Deficiente (CECD, Mira Sintra) and at Direcção-Geral da Saúde. The clinical practice – Module III was held at a Pediatric Emmergency Department and at a Neonatal Care Unit from two hospitals in Lisbon. The description and analysis of the training experiences are structured according to the stages of health planning. The Report also identifies and discusses the specific and general competences of child health nursing developed by the trainee within the following domains: (1) professional/ethical and legal responsibility; (2) quality improvement; (3) management of care; (4) development of professional learning; (5) conception of nursing care for the child/young and family. In the domain of research, the Report describes two descriptive-correlational studies performed during the practice clinic. These studies aimed to: (1) identify the nurses’ perception about the practices of FCC; and (2) analize the factors that influence these perceptions. The results of the study suggest that nurses identify organizational and individual difficulties in the implementation of FCC. The Report is concluded with a discussion of the implications of the results of the studies for nursing research and practice, as well as for the development and implementation of FCC practices. The discussion also focuses on the complexity of current contexts of child/youth and family health care, and the resulting need to consider the development of competences of specialist nurses as a continuing learning process

Date of Award	20 Sept 2012
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Lília Rosa Alexandre Vara (Supervisor)