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

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

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

Methodologies focused on student learning are favored, both in participative expository times and in individual work. The analysis of cases will be used to ascertain the critical sense and the discussion to discuss plans of intervention.
The professional and personal experience of the students will be called for their participation.
The practice will be simulated in a laboratory and accompanied by specialists to provide the development of specific technical skills for rehabilitation.
The evaluation in the theoretical-practical component can be continuous or by final exam and the laboratory component will be subject to continuous evaluation.