Project in Community and Public Health Nursing

Code: ENF14491M

2 ECTS

Duration: 30 weeks/54 hours

Scientific Area: Nursing

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

The curricular unit aims are:
• To develop a logic of articulation between the master's competences, those specific to the specialization area and the student's interests in terms of their professional and academic development.
• To build a differentiated path, in an academic and professional context, framing the project, in which there is development of a problem in the context of Community Nursing and Public Health chosen by the student, relating it to the course units.
This Curricular Unit appeal to the student's responsibility for his / her path, promoting self-reflection, personal and professional development as well as in the construction of a personalized path. It is also intended to reinforce the awareness that student is the builder of his project, based on an active learning path that supports his training as a specialist.

The syllabus of the Curricular Unit varies from student to student, according to their training path (including the course structure, internships and interests), in conjunction with the advisor.
Nevertheless, it is possible to predict that, in general, the UC program will be materialized in the student's work program, considering the project stages, the competence profile of the Specialist Nurse in Community Nursing and Public Health, the structure of the course and their interests.

Teaching Methods

This Curricular Unit is essentially based on the implementation of active methodologies, namely that of PjBL (Project Based Learning).
The CU includes an initial orientation seminar to promote the realization of the project.
Afterwards, there will be tutorial guidance, including the student and advisor, who define a personalized work program, taking into account the concrete project of the first.
The advisor will be chosen by the student, accompanying him / her along his / her training path including the clinical component (Stages and Report).
The evaluation focuses on the project protocol in Community Nursing and Public Health developed by the student, in the area of specialization including his area of interest, presented and discussed with a project jury (two evaluators). It is intended that the student prepare a project and synthesize it for presentation, in pitch format.