Abstract
Objective: To report the experiences and activities carried out by nursing students during practical activities in the Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Room at a referral hospital. Methods and results: This is an experience report of students from the nursing graduation course during the practical activities of the subjects Integral Attention to Health II, High Complexity module in Emergency and Intensive Care Unit of a reference state hospital in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, in the period from 18 November to 08 October 2015. The experience provided the students a dimension of the nursing care in the high complexity services. Thus, the results have been described considering the procedures and knowledge used and the concept of this experience to the students in the hospitals. Conclusion: During the development of the training activities, it is observed an important learning both individually and in groups of students. The progress in achieving the nursing care, the application of the clinical reasoning associated with the referenced theoretical basis are increasingly set in carrying out the practice. Keywords: Nursing Students; Critical Care Nursing; Intensive Care Units; Emergency Medical Services.
Highlights
Training activities in the nursing course are of great importance for the formation of the student
Aiming at the quality of education, the mission of the Nursing course at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte – UFRN is to provide training to ensure the nurses expertise, ethics, and politics to work in the work process in Nursing, in all levels of comprehensive health care, with resoluteness, quality, and humanity
The objective of the subject of Comprehensive Health Care II, in the High Complexity module was to stimulate the clinical reasoning to promote care systematized to critically ill patients and a critical, reflective, creative and ethical, developing skills in nursing care in the Intensive Care Unit and in urgent and emergency situations in the Emergency Room and emergency care units [3]
Summary
Training activities in the nursing course are of great importance for the formation of the student. According to research [2], the internship is where the professional identity of the student is generated, built and described. It aims to the development of an experienced, reflective and critical action and, it should be planned gradually and systematically. The nursing graduation of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) provides internship opportunities for the students, from basic care to high complexity in referral hospitals in the state of Rio Grande do Norte (RN). The student gets professional experience in real situations of life and works in the community, the basic health care and the outpatient and hospital area [3]
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