2023

Clinical Traineeship in Family Health Nursing

Name: Clinical Traineeship in Family Health Nursing
Code: ENF14468M
15 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/405 hours
Scientific Area: Nursing

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

The Internship in Family Health Nursing aims to provide students with the development and consolidation of skills in the context of Family Health Nursing.

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Goal:
- To develop and consolidate skills in Family Health Nursing.

Skills:
- To increase competences of clinical reasoning in the field of the provision and management of nursing care to the family, throughout its life cycle and at different levels of prevention;
- To understand the health-disease process of the family as a care unit in different contexts and how its structure and dynamics influence it;
- To develop competences that allow to plan, intervene and evaluate in an efficient and effective way interventions in the promotion and recovery of the family welfare, in complex situations;
- To increase competencies that allow the elaboration of a family intervention project.

Contents

- Community intervention in health promotion and disease prevention for the family as a care unit, and for each of its members, throughout the life cycle and at different levels of prevention;
- Intervention in the promotion and recovery of the family well-being, in complex situations;
- Application of clinical reasoning in the field of family nursing care delivery and management (Assessment/diagnosis; Planning; Execution and Evaluation);
- Family Nursing Assessment using specific instruments;
- Family Nursing Intervention using specific strategies.
The total hours of the UC include 40 hours for reporting.

Teaching Methods

The Clinical Training takes place preferably in Family Health Units and Personalized Health Care Units, under the responsibility of the teacher and supervision of a nurse specialist in these functional unit (if there is no Nurse Specialist in Family Health Nursing, it should be a Nurse Specialist in Community Nursing).
The teacher is responsible for guidance, pedagogical supervision and final assessment.
The assessment results from the evaluation of two components, the clinical component (50%) (hetero-assessment (35%) and self-assessment (15%)) and the preparation of a report (50%), where the diagnostic assessment is presented, analyzed and substantiated. of families, as well as the family pattern and that expresses the health assessment/diagnosis of these same families, taking into account their needs, priorities and contexts.
The student will have a success if the final classification is equal or superior to 10 values.