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- Perceção dos enfermeiros de unidades cuidados intensivos sobre futilidade terapêuticaPublication . Casqueira, Raquel Sofia Ruela; Fernandes, Sérgio Joaquim DeodatoThe main purpose of this Report is to highlight my journey of developing skills as a Specialist Nurse in Medical-Surgical Nursing in the area of Nursing for the Person in Critical Situation and Master in Nursing, throughout the Curricular Unit Final Internship and Report of the 15th Master's Course in Medical-Surgical Nursing: Nursing for the Person in a Critical Situation, from the Lisbon School of Nursing of the Catholic University of Portugal. Based on the objectives outlined in the internship projects, this report intended, from a critical and reflective perspective, to give visibility to the main activities carried out in the different internship fields that took place in the context of an Emergency Service and an Intensive Care Unit. Regardless of the distinction verified in the internship contexts, they demanded specialized care for the person in critical situation and family with a practice essentially developed by Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring. As a future Master in Nursing, it seemed pertinent to me to develop a theme that concerned me, that would meet an answer to some questions that I had already had during my professional practice. The development of medical and health sciences, with the consequent need for technological complementarity with the care provided, has notoriously caused an increase in survival. Very positive advances, but nonetheless a challenge for nurses. In Intensive Care Units, the multidisciplinarity and existing devices seem to offer an extension of life. However, do they guarantee quality of life? Thus, the research question arises: For nurses who work in adult intensive care units, what are their perceptions of therapeutic futility in critically ill patients hospitalized in an intensive care unit?