Rehabilitation Nursing: Phenomena and interventions in neurological process

Code: ENF14518M

7 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/189 hours

Scientific Area: Nursing

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

3. Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

5. Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Learning Goals

To understand the importance of integrating knowledge for a global and multidisciplinary intervention in people with neurological and neuro-traumatic situations likely to generate incapacity, disadvantage or disability; acquire specific knowledge with a view to the well-being and functionality of the person with neurological and neurotraumatic problems; acquire knowledge to intervene in patients and families, in order to facilitate the transition in the health/disease process and/or to the role of caregiver; understand the contributions of mobilization and therapeutic positioning for the conservation of muscle and joint capacities, know mobility techniques and specific rehabilitation nursing.
It is expected that at the end of the course, students have developed skills that allow them to diagnose needs, implement practices and evaluate the results of rehabilitation nursing care conceived from movement therapy.

1.The person with neurological and neurotraumatic affections
- Introduction; impact of the neurological affections. Rehabilitation Nursing to persons with neurological affections, with neurosurgical and traumatic affections.
- Rehabilitation Nursing to children with particular health condition.
- Assessment of the person and specific nursing diagnoses (nursing phenomena, instruments for evaluation and classification); planning of care for people with alterations of functionality.
- Empowerment of the person and the family: techniques promoting psychomotor development and functionality, continuity of care in a perspective of interdisciplinary intervention.
2.Simulated practice of therapeutic mobilization, therapeutic positioning; gait analysis¸ gait with assistive devices; mobility with wheelchair; transfers and mobility in bed; getting up from bed; self-care training in activities of daily living and training of the person and family in specific techniques.

Teaching Methods

Active collaborative methodologies, centered on student learning, are prioritized: Problem-based learning (PBL), Clinical case-based learning (CBL), Flipped classroom, and peer learning dynamics. The critical, transparent, and ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools is permitted, under guidance and in proposed activities. The use of AI to replace individual performance during assessments, to produce critical analyses, scientific interpretations, or conceptual syntheses is not permitted (Reference for the use of AI at UÉ).
The methodology in simulated practice in laboratories includes demonstration, supervised training, and autonomous skills training with an emphasis on the stages of diagnostic assessment, intervention, and outcome indicators.

Assessment

Students can choose between continuous assessment or final assessment. Continuous assessment is conducted through theoretical review work, a structured concept map according to the stages of the nursing process (40%), and a presentation with oral argumentation (60%). The assessment criteria are available in the MOODLE area.
The final assessment is conducted through an individual exam. In both options, the minimum passing grade is 9.5 points.
The guiding document for the assessment activities and their respective assessment criteria are available in the UC's MOODLE area.