Clinical Nursing VIII: Insertion in the Work Environment

Enfermagem Clinica VIII: Integração à Vida Profissional

Curse code:9500413

Aida de Jesus Correia Simões

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

Goals:

• Provide an opportunity for integration, solidification and development of Nursing interventions performed and apprehended throughout the course, projecting each student to the beginning of their professional activity.
• To mobilize and integrate the different knowledge and skills in order to allow a transition from the student to the professional role.

Skills:

• It assumes responsibility and responds by its actions and the judgments that elaborates, recognizing the limits of its role and its competence.
• It acts in accordance with the Code of Ethics and other applicable legislation, engaging in ethical decision-making.
• It uses knowledge and techniques in an appropriate manner, bases its decision and action, incorporating research results.
• Applies critical thinking and problem solving techniques.
• It addresses the person / client, family and community in a holistic perspective taking into account the multiple determinants of health and provides relevant information to help achieve optimal levels of health and rehabilitation.
• Recognizes the potential of health education in nursing interventions and acts to empower the family and community to adopt healthy lifestyles.
• Applies knowledge about resources for health promotion and education, uses appropriate teaching-learning strategies and evaluates processes and results, participating in teamwork.
• Continuously and systematically carries out the Process Steps - data collection, planning, execution and evaluation - consistently communicating the relevant information in a correct and understandable way, respecting its area of competence and the limits of the professional relationship with the client.
• Initiates, develops and suspends therapeutic relationships with the person/client and/or caregivers, through the use of appropriate communication and information, promoting their empowerment and autonomy.
• Uses the information resources available in an effective and appropriate manner with the person/client, peers and multiprofessional team.
• Acts according to the principles of safety, promotes a safe environment of care, using communication, evaluation, and strategies of quality assurance, risk management and infection control.
• Establishes and maintains constructive working relationships with nurses and other multidisciplinary team, identifying and valuing their roles and capabilities.
• Participates with health team members in making decisions regarding the person/client, taking into account the different perspectives.
• Knows the principles of delegation and uses support strategies, when supervising, assuming its responsibility.
• Promotes and maintains the professional image of nursing and contributes actively to its development, valuing the research and continuous improvement of the quality of health care and nursing.
• It analyzes and evaluates its practices regularly, assertively, taking responsibility for their learning.

Suggested Bibliography:

• Benner, P.; Standard, D.; Hooper-Kyriakidis, P. (2011). Clinical Wisdom and Interventions in Acute and Critical Care: Thinking-in-Action Approach (2 ed.). New York: Springer Publishing Company.
• Bulechek, M.; Butcher, K.; Dochterman, M. (2010). Classificação das intervenções de enfermagem (NIC). Rio de Janeiro: Elsevier.
• Conselho Internacional de Enfermeiros & Ordem dos Enfermeiros (2016). CIPE® versão 2015. Loures: Lusodidacta.
• Castro, H. (2011). CIPE Versão 2 – Classificação internacional para a prática de enfermagem. Edição Portuguesa: Ordem dos enfermeiros.
• Chalifour, J. (2008) A Intervenção Terapêutica: os fundamentos existencial-humanistas da relação de ajuda (volume 1). Loures: Lusodidacta.
• Henderson, V. (2007) – Princípios básicos dos cuidados de enfermagem do CIE. Lisboa: Lusodidacta.