Postgraduate Diploma in Intensive Care and Emergency

Objetivos do Curso

The Regulation for the Professional Practice of Nurses determines, in paragraph 6 of article 9, that “the

nurses contribute in the exercise of their activity in the area of management, research, teaching,

training and advice, for the improvement and evolution of the provision of nursing care”.

In this context, nursing practice in emergency intensive care is crucial

to ensure effective and integral support to the person, at any stage of the life cycle, family and

community in a critical situation.

The Postgraduate Course in Intensive Care and Emergency aims to contribute

for the development of skills of health professionals to work with the patient

in critical condition.

Condições de Acesso e Ingresso

Graduates in the area of health sciences.

Saídas profissionais

The health professional provided with the Postgraduate Diploma in Intensive Care and Emergency must ensure the necessary skills to manage professional skills, embedded in multidisciplinary teams, making the care safer and autonomous in stressful conditions as the threshold between life and death.

Regime de Estudo

Presencial

Língua(s) de aprendizagem/ Avaliação

Portuguese

Objetivos de Aprendizagem e competências a Desenvolver

It is intended that health professionals working in Intensive Care and

Emergencies in order to respond to the following objectives:

- Analyze management practices in health organizations;

- Identify innovative individual and team management, leadership and supervision strategies;

- Taking care of the person in emergency, exception and catastrophe situations;

- Conceive, in conjunction with the strategic level, emergency and catastrophe plans

- Understand the role of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in

response to Emergency, Exception and Catastrophe situations;

- Conceive differentiated intervention plans in adapting to transition processes

health/illness resulting from a situation of critical illness and/or organ failure and its

family/significant person;

- Implement planned interventions aimed at surveillance, monitoring and therapy,

preventing complications and adverse events arising from a situation of critical illness and/or

organic failure that lack advanced means of intervention;

- Evaluate the results of interventions based on the responses of the person, family and caregivers to

experiencing a situation of critical illness and/or organ failure;

- Differentiated management of the pain and well-being of the person in a critical situation and/or bankruptcy

organic, optimizing responses;

- Demonstrate knowledge and skills in advanced life and trauma support;

- Demonstrate knowledge and skills in situations of brain death and maintenance

hemodynamics of potential organ and tissue donors;

- Demonstrate knowledge and skills in situations of kidney failure.

Coordenador do curso

- Mário Rui Correia Branco - mario.branco@essnortecvp.pt

Enquadramento Legal da Qualificação

Decree-Law no. 74/2006, of 24 March, amended and republished by Decree-Law no. 65/2018, of 16 August