Nursing
Master Degree
Ano Letivo 2024/2025

Course Overview

This master degree intends to develop knowledge and skills to a specialized intervention in a nursing domain, pointed out in high levels of clinical judgement and decision making, considering humans answers to life processes and health problems; to promote an increase in healthcare, with resource to investigation, to an evidence-based pratice and ethical and deontologic references; to capacitate to clinical governance, the leadership of teams and projects, as well as supervision and care management, in diferent contexts of clinical practicing; to contribute to the development of the subject and specialized training.

Specialization Areas:

Community Health Nursing and Public Health Nursing
Community Nursing in the Family Health Nursing Area
Rehabilitation Nursing
Child Health and Pediatric Nursing
Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing
Medical-Surgical Nursing, in the area of Critical Care Nursing
Medical-Surgical Nursing, in the area of Palliative Care Nursing

Course in Association/Partner Institutions:

Instituto Politécnico de Beja - Escola Superior de Saúde
Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco - Escola Superior de Saúde Dr. Lopes Dias
Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre - Escola Superior de Saúde
Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal - Escola Superior de Saúde
Universidade do Algarve - Escola Superior de Saúde

Organic Unit: S. João de Deus School of Nursing

Duration: 3 Semesters/90 ECTS credits (90 required in curricular units)

Language: Portuguese

Regime: Presencial

CNAEF Areas:

Nursing and caring (723)

Study Plan

A3ES Accreditation

Career Prospects

Liberal exercise of the job in public or private institutions; General Hospitals; Specialized Hospitals; Health Clinics; Schools, Medical/Nursery Clinics; Companies.

Specific Entry Requirements

Conditions for access to this course, cumulatively As exposed in the article nº 17 of the decree-law nº74/2006, in its current republishing, the students can apply to this study cicle: a) Title holders of a nursing degree or the legal tantamount. b) Title holders of a foreigner superior academic degree in Nursing, processed in the sequence of a first cycle of studies organized according to the principles of the Bologna Process by a State that subscribes to this Process. c) Title holders of a foreigner superior academic degree in Nursing that is recognized as satisfying the goals of the level of a degree licenced by the scientific organ statutorily competent of the institution where one wants to be admitted. d) Holders of a school curriculum, scientific or professional, recognized as having capacity to the attainment of this cicle of studies, by the scientific organ statutorily competente of the instutition where one wants to be admitted. e) Being a holder of the professional title of a Nurse. f) To the assignment of the title of specialist by the professional Order, in the terms of the article 12th da Portaria nº 268/2002, dated 13th of March, it?s required at least two years of professional exercise as a nurse, to the date of the appliance to the degree. The knowledge refered to in the lines b) and d) have only effect in the access of the cycle of studies to the masters degree and does not give the student equivalence to a licenced degree, or the recognition of that degree.