Professional clinical practice with report - Module I

Code:

UC413

Acronym:

E-MI

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Nursing

Instance: 2025/2026 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Gestão de Sinais e Sintomas
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Rehabilitation Nursing

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MER	13	Official Syllabus	1	-	15	225	420

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

• To acquire skills to carry out an individual professional development project, meaningful and applicable in the clinical context of rehabilitation nursing.


• To promote personal accountability in the construction of the respective itineraries and professional life projects, in a perspective of lifelong learning and the promotion of an entrepreneurial spirit.


• To promote individual professional guidance, integrating the development project with the respective personal, social contexts and, in particular, with the work contexts.


• To promote the integration of students in advanced professional practice spaces in the area of rehabilitation nursing.


• To promote professional awareness of the role of the specialist nurse.


• To develop and consolidate a professional development project that is relevant for the integrated application of knowledge inserted in the area of rehabilitation nursing; as well as the deepening of clinical skills in the same area as advanced professional practice.

Learning outcomes and competences

• Demonstrate the ability to design and execute an individual professional development project that is meaningful and applicable within the clinical context of rehabilitation nursing.


• Exhibit personal accountability in constructing professional pathways and life projects, fostering a lifelong learning perspective and an entrepreneurial mindset.


• Effectively integrate individual professional guidance by aligning the development project with personal, social, and, particularly, professional work contexts.


• Successfully engage in advanced professional practice environments within the field of rehabilitation nursing.


• Demonstrate a heightened professional awareness of the role and responsibilities of the specialist nurse in rehabilitation nursing.


• Develop and consolidate a professional development project that reflects the integrated application of knowledge specific to the field of rehabilitation nursing.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Completion of the curricular units within the specific core of the 1st and 2nd semesters of the first year of the Master's Degree in Rehabilitation Nursing.

Program

Module I takes place in clinical contexts with formative suitability, in accordance with the technical-scientific principles defined by ESEP and recommendations from the Order of Nurses. The scientific advisor, both in module I and module II, of the professional clinical practice, is a professor at ESEP, with a PhD degree and, necessarily, holder of the title of specialist in Rehabilitation Nursing. In parallel, each student will have a local clinical tutor specialist in rehabilitation nursing. During module I of the clinical practice of a professional nature, students will have to experience, in an equitable way, the contexts of clinical practice considered mandatory by the Order of Nurses, namely:

Neurological process - Total of 100 hours of contact, distributed as follows:

• Vascular Process 45 hours (45%);
• Degenerative Process 25 hours (25%);
• Traumatological Process 30 hours (30%);

• The contexts of the clinical practice of the neurological process, applying the percentage proposed by the OE, comprise:

  • 70 hours in Hospital or rehabilitation center;
  • 11 hours at RNCCI;
  • 7 hours in Pediatrics.

Cardiorespiratory process - Total of 60 hours of contact, distributed as follows:

Respiratory Process 36 hours (60%);

Cardiac Process 24 hours (40%).

The contexts of clinical practice in the cardiorespiratory process, applying the percentage proposed by the OE, comprise:

• 30 hours hospital or rehabilitation center;
• 23 hours at home or UCC / ECCI;
• 7 hours pediatrics.

Ortho - traumatological and rheumatological process - Total of 40 hours of contact, distributed as follows:

Orthopedic / Rheumatological process 24 hours (60%);

Traumatological process 16 hours (40%).

The clinical practice contexts of the ortho-traumatological and rheumatological process, applying the percentage proposed by the OE, comprise:

• 26 hospital or rehabilitation center;
• 7 hours at home or UCC / ECCI
• 7 hours sport

Total contact hours of Module I = 200 Hours.

In first module, the student will outline and consolidate a professional development project in the area of rehabilitation nursing.

Mandatory literature

Schon , Donald A.; The reflective practitioner : how professionals think in action. ISBN: 0-465-06878-2
Meleis , Afaf Ibrahim; Theoretical nursing : development and progress. ISBN: 0781736730
Orem , Dorothea E.; Modelo de Orem : conceptos de enfermería en la práctica. ISBN: 0801660645
Hoeman , Shirley P.; Enfermagem de reabilitação : prevenção, intervenção e resultados esperados. ISBN: 9789898075314

Teaching methods and learning activities

Seminars that constitute spaces for the presentation and discussion of individual professional development projects for each of the students, as well as reflections "about action" around the challenges of clinical practice in a differentiate context.

A clinical practice component that, in addition to integrating each of the students within the scope of advanced professional practice in the field of rehabilitation nursing, will deepen differentiated clinical competences, namely in terms of care conception. In addition to the above, it is intended that students develop clinical skills based on "problem-based" learning and "real clinical cases", in a permanent dialectic between "theory and practice".

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	60,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	25,00
Elaboração de projeto	100,00
Estudo autónomo	95,00
Realização de Estágio	200,00
Total:	420,00

Eligibility for exams

Obtaining attendance status requires completing 200 hours of internship and attending at least 75% of the seminars sessions.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final grade for the curricular unit is determined by 60% from the continuous assessment of the internship and 40% from the internship project.