Excellence in Care goes through high quality nursing care, based on scientific evidence and a critical and reflective attitude on the part of nurses to the human responses to life processes, allowing the living healthy transitions and, access to culturally appropriate care. This document is part of the Curricular Unit - Report, inserted in the 9th Master's Degree Course in Nursing with Specialization in Medical-Surgical Nursing, of the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, it is focuses on the Curricular Unit – Clinical Practice in Medical- Surgical Nursing, which took place, chronologically, in Prehospital emergency Care (Module III) in intensive care (Module II) and in the Emergency Department (Module I). This experience allowed me to acquire an overall knowledge of the critical patient, from prehospital care to admission to the accident and emergency and, finally to an intensive care unit. With the intention to provide specialized and transcultural care of the critical patient, I performed part of my internship in Brasil, to developed knowledge about the different values of caring, beliefs, culture and behavior patterns. The completion of this report comes after the end of the internship, aims to present my course of acquisition and development of Specialist Nurse Practitioners in Medical-Surgical Nursing, using a descriptive and critical-reflective methodology on the activities developed. It is divided into four parts: Introduction, where I frame the report, the stage and its modules, as well as the objectives outlined; Characterization of clinical practice locations; Skills Development, organized by the Common Competency Domains of the Specialist Nurse, established by the Order of Nurses, always bearing in mind the Specific Skills of the Specialist Nurse in Medical-Surgical Nursing and finally, the Conclusion, where I summarize my professional development in the light of Skills acquired and, the contributions of the researches and the training carried out. I considered it pertinent to carry out a bibliographic review on the basic and additional precautions for infection control, an integrative review of the literature on prevention of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome, as well as, a community training - Inform for Save - that contributed to my personal and academic enrichment. After completing this course, I consider that I have acquired skills to provide specialized care in the area of Medical-Surgical Nursing, developing a reflexive practice and decisionmaking, based on the code of ethics and the ethical principles that regulate the profession, as well as, the scientific evidence of the way to promote an autonomous and reflexive practice, as opposed to a practice based on behavioral modeling.
Date of Award | 13 Jul 2017 |
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Original language | Portuguese |
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Awarding Institution | - Universidade Católica Portuguesa
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Supervisor | Maria Rocha (Supervisor) |
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Um cuidar especializado e transcultural do doente crítico
Moreira, A. D. F. R. (Student). 13 Jul 2017
Student thesis: Master's Thesis