II INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING

Portugal, Coimbra - 13, 14 and 15 March 1997

The President:  NIDIA SALGUEIRO


PROVISIONAL PROGRAMM

Addressed to: Nurses of every category and working area
Place: Auditórios dos Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra

Associao de Enfermeiros Especialistas em Enfermagem
Médico-Cirúrgica ( AEEEMC )
Avenida Bissaya Barreto, Apartado 52 
3000 COIMBRA - PORTUGAl



Programm organization - informative note:



The present programm is on a preliminary level. The subjects' order may
be changed and other sub-topics will certainly be introduced, according
to the projects received.

1. The activities will develop in the following way:
    - Important themes introduced by a Lecture ( A ) under the
    responsibility of a national or foreign personality, invited by AEEEMC.
    - Communications of research works ( B ) and free communications ( C ),
    fitting the theme. They will be grouped in sub-topics, according to
    their contents.
    - Themes with a pluri-dimensional approach in small groups, with
    experts in the subject or individualities of recognized merit by their
    life experience, from the country and abroad, invited by AEEEMC.
    - A debate will follow each presentation.

2. The communications B and C will happen in three rooms
simultaneously. There is a fourth room especially reserved for the
presentation of subjects, which may not be directly related to the main
themes, but considred of interest by the Scientific Comission, and also
for the presentation of videos/films or meetings with the personalities
present in the Congress.

3. Projects in the form of bills/posters ( D ), videos, films, slides
( E ) will be exhibited during the Congress, on day and place to indicate.

4. There will also be an exhibition of reception brochures of health
institutions ( national and foreign institutions ), during the
Congress.

5. The communications' summaries, bills and others ( B, C, D, and E )
must be sent to the President of the Congress until 31 December 1996.
You will be informed of the selection results until 31 January 1997.

6. Prizes will be awarded to the research works ( 1st, 2nd, 3rd and
youth prize, in money and honourable mentions ) by the Jury's decision.
A prize will be awarded to the best bill/poster and reception brochure
by the Jury and the members of the Congress.



Participation Rights



The members of the Congress have the right to:

    . Information about the Congress.
    . Participate in the contests with their own or group projects and
    to be informed of the results.
      The Scientific Comission intends to publish the ones with a
      higher level.
    . Folder with supporting material to the Congress.
    . Brochure with summaries of the communications.
    . Allusive medal ( worth more than 2.000$00 ).
    . Coffees.

. Entertainment programm
  - Cultural soire and rice pudding ( "arroz doce" ) - Dinner, followed
  by a dancing party ( 14/03/97 ) - Cultural visits - Others

. Participation conditions in the Congress activities
  - Sitting place ( limited inscriptions ) - Simultaneous translation -
  Means of transport when necessary


Aim:
	To dignify the level quality of nursing care.


Goals:
	. To develop the Nursing activity.
	. To promote research work.
	. To think about Nursing care.
	. To view the nurse role at the  turning of the century.




13 March/97

     8.30H		Opening of the Secretariat
			Official Opening

     9.30H		Opening Lecture
			"The Scientific Care: New Challenges for Nurses
				at the Turning of the Century"

    10.30H		Coffee break

    11.30H		The Hospital, The Patient, The Family/Significant People
    Lecture		-In a holistic vision of Nursing
  Communications	. Visiting patients, as a therapeutic intervention
     B and C		. Others, fitting the theme

    13.00H		Lunch break

    14.30H		1. Nursing Teaching and Nurse Formation
    Lecture
    Communications	. What means Nursing and to be a Nurse - C.S.E.
			students presentations
     B and C		. Schools autonomy, their educational projects
			and C.S.E. study plans
			. The Clinical Teaching in health units or the
			nursing student in health units?

		      .The Specialized Nursing in "Caring" and "Administering"
			. Others

			2. Administration of Nursing Services

			. The Nurse Manager and the search of excellency
			Note: Communications B and C, fitting themes 1
			and 2, simultaneously in the several rooms

    16.00H		Research in Nursing - another way of care
    Lecture

    21.00H		Cultural Soirée and rice pudding



14 March/97

     9.00H			 The Human Pain
     Lecture
Communications		. The pain; threats to self-image and
    B and C		self-concept; changes of the image of the body;
			the loss - of significant people, organs,
			functions or things - the mourning; the
			stigmatization/discredit; the shame
			. The nursing cares and treatments implying great pain

			- The bath of the burnt patient
			- The chemotherapy

			These are some suggestions of work which can be
			centred in the patient and family, or in the nurses.

    11.00H		Coffee break

    11.30H		The organ transplantation and the transplanted
			patient - medical, legal, sociological and
			nursing intervention perspectives

    13.00H		Lunch break

    14.30H		The problematic of infectious diseases, at the
    Lecture		end of the century
    Communications	Communications fitting this subject (Tuberculosis,
     B and C		Aids, Hepatitis )

    16.00H		The written communication in Nursing -
    Lecture		the guarantee of care continuity

    20.00H		Dinner, followed by a dancing party


15 March/97

     9.00H		The calamities - what answer?
     Lecture
   Communications	. Health structures and others which can be
      B and C		mobilized when there are big calamities and accidents
			. The emergency and the hospital urgency
			. Others

    11.00H		Coffee break

    11.30H			 The Health Service
    Lecture
  Communications	. Intervention of health technicians regarding
    B and C		the Elementary Health Care and the Hospital Care

    13.00H		Lunch break

    14.30H		Ethics and Life

			. A pluri-dimensional approach by Portuguese
			and foreign individualities

    16.00H		Official closing session, with the delivery of
			prize awards and presentation of conclusions