Nursing Internship for the person in Critical Situation

Code: ENF14487M

15 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/405 hours

Scientific Area: Nursing

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

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

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

Learning Goals

- Provides care to the person/family in a critical situation in specific care contexts (monovalent ICU, extra and intra-hospital emergency and diagnostic, intervention and therapeutic units;
- Manage the administration of complex therapeutic protocols to the person in critical condition;
- Makes the differentiated management of pain and well-being to the person in a critical situation;
- Develop clinical practice to the person/family in critical situation in specific care contexts;
- Identifies the focus of instability in the person/family in a critical situation.
- Generate interpersonal communication in the therapeutic relationship with the person/family in critical situation
- Participates in continuous improvement processes for the prevention and control of IACS and security policies in health institutions.

This internship assumes the articulation and integration of contents from the different curricular units that preceded it. As a whole, it configures a set of knowledge to be mobilized and deepened by the student in the activities to be carried out in the period of clinical practice, developed in a real situation of providing care to the person/family experiencing complex processes of critical illness and/or organ failure, in the context of monovalent intensive care units, in extra and in-hospital emergency teams and in diagnostic, intervention and therapeutic units.
The total hours of the UC include 40 hours for preparing the Report.

Teaching Methods

Clinical practice will take place under the guidance of a nurse specialist in medical-surgical nursing, with pedagogical supervision of a specialist professor in the same area, aiming at personalized teaching that encourages reflection, problem solving and research. The student must prepare a case study about a person cared for during the internship period. Continuous assessment involving the different stakeholders in the process, namely: student, supervisor nurse and teacher responsible for pedagogical supervision and final classification. In the assessment methodology two components are considered: clinical competences and research competences, both subject to assessment. The first ones are evaluated by the student's performance and the second ones through a written work (case study), being 50% the weighting of each component. The clinical component includes student self-assessment (15%) and supervisor and teacher hetero-assessment (35%).
This CU cannot be performed by exam.