Relatório

Abstract

This report has a double purpose, first to describe the route taken in the context of traineeship modules recommended by the curriculum, “Professional Nursing Master’s degree in Medical- Surgery Specialization”, by the Institute of Health Sciences, Portuguese Catholic University and second to evidence the skills development of Nurse Specialist from this route, which will be mobilized for my professional praxis. The traineeship featured three separate modules, which were performed at the Centro Hospitalar de Setúbal, EPE, by the following chronological order: Module III (Geriatric Nursing – optional nature), held in the context of professional practice Orthopedic I of Hospital Ortopédico Sant'iago do Outão; Module I (Emergency Service) and Module II (Intensive care/Intermediate) both performed at Hospital de São Bernardo, in the Emergency Service and Intensive Care Service, respectively. During the course of the three modules of traineeship, I chose to direct my learning towards the family / informal caregivers of elderly hospitalized clients. This choice was based on the new challenges in healthcare, particularly due to the phenomenon of population aging, the contingency and social changes. In Module III - Geriatric Nursing, the activities developed focused on planning and implementing the project “Caring to a household - a tripartite partnership” promoting Education in Health through the interaction elder client/ informal caregivers /nurse. Besides this project, I drew up a training activity and a poster regarding “Pressure Ulcer Treatment”, directed towards the uniformisation of nursing procedures. On the other hand, Module I - Emergency Service, the development of this traineeship was mainly under the care of the family / informal caregivers of elderly clients in urgent / emergent situations. In regard to the service’s needs, I organized the training activity “Approach to politraumatized client: techniques in trauma”, as well as a manual of procedures concerning the politraumatized client in emergency. My aim was to make nursing professionals aware of these good practice guidelines. Finally, in Module II, I promoted the development of skills related to “Communication of Bad News”, minding how limited we are as professionals in these issues. I also established a procedure guideline “Regarding welcoming the family in Intensive Care Service”, with the purpose of optimizing the process by involving all the intervenients. The accomplished projects, in the course of the traineeship modules, has allowed the development of skills in approaching the client/family, taking into account it’s complex needs, as well as implementing projects capable of contributing to better Nursing healthcare

Date of Award	Apr 2011
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Filipa Veludo (Supervisor)