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The Institutional Repository (Veritati) is a reference platform for those who want to access scientific production, as well as master's dissertations and doctoral theses, developed within the scope of the teaching and research activities of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP).

As part of the RCAAP project (Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal), it aims to preserve and disseminate scientific production, thus increasing its visibility and impact.

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Cuidado especializado de enfermagem à pessoa em situação crítica

Publication . Pereira, Lisete Maria Ponte; Rabiais, Isabel Cristina Mascarenhas

This internship report is within the scope of Medical-Surgical Nursing Master's Degree, in Critically Ill Person area. This document has the purpose to describe, analyze and demonstrate the process and development of common and specific skills of the Specialist Nurse by resorting to the reflective methodology, in order to provide the basis for awarding the title of Master and Specialist Nurse. The literature review was carried out using the Scoping Review methodology proposed by the Joanna Briggs Institute, entitled “Competencies Profile of the Intra-hospital Emergency Team Nurse’s: A Scoping Review”. It aimed to map the extent, variety and nature of the literature on the competencies of the Intra-hospital Nurse Emergency Team, according to the competences of a Master in Nursing, set out in article 15 of the Regime Jurídico dos Graus e Diplomas do Ensino Superior (Decreto-Lei n.º 65/2018, 2018). The Scoping Review aimed to provide a theoretical basis for the selection, training, and development of nurses' competencies towards quality cares in this specific context and, thus, for the area of Critical Nursing Care. The practical component of the Master's consisted of an internship in an Intermediate Care Unit, Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Service, all of which were multi-purpose. For each internship area, objectives and activities were set to promote learning and competencies development for specialized nursing. The Regulamento das Competências Comuns do Enfermeiro Especialista and the Regulamento de Competências Específicas do Enfermeiro Especialista em Enfermagem Médico-Cirúrgica of the Ordem dos Enfermeiros were the basis of the developing competencies in Critical Nursing Care process analysis. The theoretical framework to the entire process was Patricia Benner's theory, From Novice to Expert. By the end of this course, it is possible to state that the objectives and competencies set out above were achieved and I am committed to continuous professional development.

2024-04-05Master thesis

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Estratégias dos enfermeiros na gestão do stress no cuidado especializado à pessoa em situação crítica

Publication . Nogueira, Inês Carvalho; Ribeiro, Patrícia Cruz Pontífice Sousa Valente

Concern about how we feel in the exercise of our profession is often put to one side, particularly when it comes to delicate issues that require change and even confrontation with peers in order to improve care. Over time, we've seen some concepts emerge that need clarification, such as stress. This concept, although subjective, is present in the provision of nursing care and can condition it, given that nurses are increasingly required to increase their productivity, often without adequate human and material resources. The importance of rapid decision-making and the management of stressful situations during the provision of care to people in a critical situation led to this scoping review, which sought, through the available scientific evidence, to find out the strategies used by nurses to manage stress. This final report duly describes and reflects the experience I had in the three internship contexts I worked in, initially in a general emergency department and then in a pre-hospital emergency department. In these contexts, my specific objective was to help improve the nursing team's ability to respond by acquiring strategies used to manage stress when caring for critically ill people and their families, which led to my practice during my internships, adapting it to the specific characteristics of each location. The activities carried out along the way are the result of the project work carried out in each context, which have allowed me to reflect clearly and substantiatingly in this report on the competences developed, specifically those of the Specialist Nurse in Medical-Surgical Nursing in the area of Nursing Specialisation for the Critically Ill Person. Conceptually, I anchored myself in the paradigm of transformation, specifically in the School of Caring, based on Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring. Caring is based on scientific, ethical, technical and relational competences aimed at improving the provision of specialised care in a holistic way to the person in critical condition and their family.

2024-04-04Master thesis

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Ser enfermeiro especialista : da conceção à concretização

Publication . Costa, Ana Rita Gonçalves Araújo da; Marques, Rita Margarida Dourado

This report is part of the Master’s Degree in Nursing, specializing in MedicalSurgical Nursing: People in Critical Situations, at the Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde e Enfermagem from Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and illustrates the path I took in developing my skills at an academic, professional and personal level. “Being a Specialist Nurse: from conception to realization” reproduces the path I took in search of specialized nursing for people in critical situations. It aims to portray and explain, in a critical-reflective way, the process of acquiring and consolidating common and specific competences, contextualizing the internship sites and carrying out a description and analysis of the experiences and most significant learning of the internships in the Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit. It is a detailed look at the care provided to patients, responding to their needs and those of their families, designing, implementing and evaluating nursing diagnoses and interventions. It is a dynamic process, narrated in the chapters that follow, revealing the reflections on advanced practices, the activities developed and the skills acquired. It identifies opportunities for improvement and the development of problemsolving strategies, based on theoretical support and critical reflection. Believing that understanding the origin, rationale and problematization of bathing throughout the ages will allow us to understand and face the challenges of the present in the prevention of Surgical Site Infection, “Nursing Intervention: Preoperative Bathing Focused on a Historical and Documentary” is a systematic review of the literature, including text and opinion evidence. Using the critical-reflective methodology, this report shows the academic path developed in the search for specialized and advanced, yet humanized care. It shares reflections on the path taken, the implications for professional practice and the main individual contributions.

2024-03-18Master thesis

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O cuidado confortador na enfermagem especializada

Publication . Estevam, Mariana Rita Monteiro; Ribeiro, Patrícia Cruz Pontífice Sousa Valente

This report is intended to describe and analyze the development and improvement of skills and activities acquired and developed as a specialist nurse during internships. Internships that took place in a Permanent Service of a Private Hospital in Lisbon and in an Intensive Care and Recovery Unit of a Hospital in Lisbon. The postgraduate training in nursing assumes an extremely important role in the construction and development of nurses and in the consequent provision of quality care, optimizing the combination of knowledge with the development and certification of scientific, technical, ethical and relational competences. For the design of this document, the methodology used was based on a descriptive and reflective analysis of the experiences experienced in the context of the development of specialized competencies, appropriate to clinical practice, in the area of Medical-Surgical Nursing, based on the assumptions defended by Katharine Kolcaba's Theories of Comfort and Afaf Meleis' Transition Theory. Comfort was the transverse axis that was underlying the stage sites. Not only in promoting the comfort of the patient, in its holistic aspect, but also of the nursing student and nurse, sensitizing the team to the theme of Burnout syndrome. A Scoping Review was conducted with the purpose of mapping the existing scientific evidence regarding risk factors as well as possible strategies to prevent Burnout syndrome in nursing students. This is an extremely important issue, considering that this syndrome has been increasing among this population and may compromise the future of students as well as the profession itself, since today's students are the nurses of tomorrow.

2024-03-05Master thesis

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Responsabilidade do enfermeiro na restrição física da pessoa em serviço de urgência

Publication . Costa, Paula Alexandra Coimbra; Fernandes, Sérgio Joaquim Deodato

The Nurses Deontological Code states that Nurses must practice the profession with the adequate scientific and technical knowledge, with respect for life, human dignity and for the health and well-being of the population, taking all measures to improve the quality of care and nursing services, as well as contributing to dignify the profession (Ordem dos Enfermeiros, 2015a). With the goal to increase my scientific and technical knowledge, as well as developing relation, communication and ethical skills, in order to improve the quality of care provided, I enrolled in a Masters Degree in Critical Care Nursing. The Critical Care field is the one I choose to develop my skills as a Specialist Nurse given that it’s the field I’ve been working at since the start of my career and also the one in which I feel more comfortable, identify with and want to learn more about. This report aims to describe and analyze the activities and skills developed during the internships, as well as to link them to my growth as a Specialist Nurse in Critical Care Nursing. The internships happened in an Emergency Service in a central hospital, an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and an observational internship in a Hemodynamic Laboratory. There will be a presentation of the specific objectives to reach in each context, as well as the activities to achieve such objectives. A scoping review was conducted about “Nursing responsibility in physical restraint in the emergency unit – a scoping review”. Physical restraint is a subject talked about in Nursing for decades, always debated because of the implication of human rights and the duty to protect and maintain the patient’s life.

2024-02-22Master thesis

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