CP1.Biomechanics and movement analysis
1.1. Anatomic axes and planes
1.2. System of levers
1.3 Types of muscle contraction
1.4. Strength and muscle tone
1.5 Kinetic chains
1.6. Assessment of functionality and implications for CEER
CP2: Functional anatomy
2.1. Functional groups
2.2 Articular Movements
2.3 Joint Range of Motion
2.4 Joint Mobilization
2.5. Gait
2.6 Implications for RN.
CP3 Ergonomics
3.1 Center of Gravity
2.2 Basis of Support
3.3. Correct Posture
3.4. Resources facilitating the process of reconstruction / maintenance of functionality
3.5 Ergonomics in care – Stretching; adaptation to the care environment; energy conservation techniques

CP1.Neurological Area
1.1 Anatomy, histophysiology and semiology of the nervous system (NS)
1.2. Physiopathological processes of the neurological system
1.3. Neurologic examination and complementary diagnostic tests in the neurologic area
CP2.Cardiorespiratory area
2.1. Anatomy, histophysiology and semiology of respiratory and cardiovascular system
2.2. Physiopathological processes of the respiratory and cardiac system
2.3. Complementary examinations of diagnosis in the cardiorespiratory area
Musculoskeletal area
3.1 Anatomy, histophysiology and semiology of the musculoskeletal system
3.2. Physiopathological processes of the musculoskeletal system
3.3. Complementary examinations of diagnosis in musculoskeletal area

CP1. Conceptual framework of nursing care
1.1 Development of nursing: discipline and profession
1.2 Characterization and standards of knowledge in nursing
1.3 Quality Standards of Specialized Nursing Care
CP2. Nursing and advanced practice
Concepts and evolution of advanced practice.
2.2 Professional development
2.3 Applicability of knowledge in advanced practice.
2.4 Models of advanced practice
CP3. Nursing and Law
CP4 Care centered person groups and communities
4.1. Nursing practices and models applied to advanced specialized nursing
CP5 – Classified language for the practice of rehabilitation nursing
5.1 Nursing diagnoses
5.2 Sensitive indicators to the specialized nursing care
CP6. Outcomes and visibility of nursing care
6.1 Information systems in nursing
6.2 Taxonomy in nursing in the area of specialization in rehabilitation nursing

CP1. Management and organization of health care
1.1 The various levels of health care management
1.2 Integrality of care and client-centered care
1.3 Patient Safety and Risk Management
CP2. Management and leadership of people 2.1.
2.1 Leadership processes and conflict management in clinical settings
2.2 The delegation
2.3 Secure endowments in Nursing
2.4 Supervision
2.5 Professional Performance and Performance Evaluation
CP3. Jurisprudence, policies, and health systems
3.1 Specificities of health care organizations
3.2 Health System Reforms
CP4. Clinical governance and quality management in health
4.1 Quality and development of health services
4.2 Concepts, models, and tools for management and quality in health
4.3 Health outcomes: Indicators for better nursing practice

CP1 – Ethical principles in health care
1.1 Rationale of Clinical Ethics. Bioethical principles. Ethical, ontological and legal issues of praxis.
CP2 – Ethical decision making
2.1 Decision making process in nursing in the resolution of problems associated with situations of specialized practice.
CP3 – The Code of Ethics of Nursing and the Regulation of Professional Practice in the context of specialized nursing practice
3.1 The ethical values and legal aspects inherent in nursing practice.
CP4 – Ethical, deontological and legal issues of specialized practice in rehabilitation nursing

CP1.Introduction to the models of social and family intervention, social responses and institutional models
CP2.Psychosocial impact of disability on the person and relational contexts (coping strategies and styles)
CP3.Concept of families, assessment and intervention of the EEER in family health context in situational crises
CP4.Transition to the Role of Caregiver
CP5.Nursing Practice: Hospital Referral Network and RNCCI; NGO’s and self-help groups as health and social answers to families with
people with disabilities
CP6. The practice of EEER in the scope of health and social action in the service of people with disabilities
CP7. Advanced nursing intervention in the preparation of returning home, continuity of care and home care
CP8. Health promotion in the family context, workplace, and primary health care organizations
CP9. Physical accessibility,assessment of context and applicable legislation

1.2 The history of health and disease, its connection with the RN taking into account the promotion of the person’s autonomy and social
reintegration
1.3 The rehabilitation nurse as a member of multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary team
CP2 – Rehabilitation nursing
2.1 Models and specific theories in RN
2.2 Quality standards of RN care
2.3 Regulation of common and specific competences of RN.
2.4 Clinical decision making process in RE.
CP3-Indicators of quality sensitive to the care of RN
3.1 Quality indicators sensitive to Specialized Care in RN: structure, process and result
3.2.Information Systems in RN (ontology and document standard)
CP4.Minimum Summary of Data in RN
4.1 – Production of indicators sensitive to Specialized Care in RN
4.2. Minimum Data Summary in RN

CP1 – Evidence Based Practice (EBP)
1.1 EBP and Decision Making
1.2 Methodologies for evidence synthesis
1.3 Systematic Literature Review (SLR)
1.4 Methodological quality assessment
1.5 Review protocols
CP2 – Research designs and their stages
2.1 Paradigms of scientific research in nursing
2.2 Stages of Research
2.3 Techniques/Instruments of data collection
2.4 Psychometric study of instruments
2.5 Ethics in Research
CP3 – Methods of data analysis
3.1 Descriptive/inferential statistics: Statistical Programs
3.2 Presentation, analysis and evaluation of quantitative data
3.3 Assumptions of data analysis in qualitative research
3.4 Programmes for qualitative data analysis
3.5 Analysis/Interpretation of Study Findings
CP4 – Principles of constructing a research project and report
CP5 – Communicating research results
5.1 Scientific writing and dissemination of results
5.2 Writing scientific articles

CP1 Human Sexuality
1.1 Concepts
1.2 Models of Approach
1.3 The Importance of the Partner
CP2. Sexuality and Rehabilitation Nursing
2.1. devices and procedures of functional re-education
2.2 Intervention of the rehabilitation nurse after cardiac/respiratory event
2.3 Intervention of the rehabilitation nurse in women with breast/cervical cancer
2.4 Intervention of the rehabilitation nurse after vertebro-medullary injury
2.5 Intervention of the rehabilitation nurse in the person with stroke
2.6 Intervention of the rehabilitation nurse in the person with prostatectomy
2.7 Intervention of the rehabilitation nurse in the person with ostomy
2.8 Intervention of the rehabilitation nurse in the person with hip arthroplasty

Students must choose one of the following curricular units:

• Rehabilitation nursing: Classical and complementary techniques

CP1. Prevention of musculoskeletal injuries and massage therapy
Prevention programs of musculoskeletal injuries
Types of massage
Principles of myofascial therapy
CP2 – Application of neuromuscular bands (BN)
Properties of BN, Principles of application and effects of BN
Indications and contraindications of BN
CP3 – Application of electrotherapy
Definition of electrotherapy
Effects of currents in human body
Low and medium frequency currents
Galvanic currents
CP4 – High frequency currents
Definition of tecarterapia
Electrical principles of tecarterapia, its effects and its contraindications.
tecarterapia in practice
CP5 – Application of vacuum therapy
Principles of application and effects of vacuum therapy
CP6 – compreflossing technique application
Principles of application and effects of compreflossing technique
CP7 – Application of electro puncture and dry puncture
CP7.Principles of application and its effects
CP8 – Ultrasound effects on the body

• Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Trends and Challenges in Rehabilitation Nursing

CP1. Concepts of innovation, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial process;
CP2. Characteristics of the entrepreneur in RN: attitudes and interpersonal, cognitive and strategic skills;
CP3.Current trends and opportunities: demographic, social, technological, scientific and economic challenges of entrepreneurship;
CP4. EEER practice in Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship: quality of care, self-efficacy and positive attitude;
CP5. Scientific evidence as a promoter, desideratum and resolving factor in the practice of entrepreneurship and innovation in EEER;
CP6. The role of nursing associations and regulatory authorities in practical situations of entrepreneurship and innovation in RN;
CP7. Planning an innovative service/product: Feasibility; The resources: investment and sources of funding; Registration of patents

CP1 Diagnostic Judgment
1.1 Diagnostic criteria in RN at motor, sensory, cognitive, cardiac, vascular, respiratory, feeding, elimination, and
sexuality taking into account human responses throughout the life cycle .
1.2 Fundamental principles and concepts of cardiac and respiratory rehabilitation and physical exercise
1.3 Assessment and data collection tools as facilitators of the decision making process
1.4.International classification of functionality
1.5.Focus of RN diagnosis activity at different levels
CP2: Therapeutic Judgment
2.1.Therapies of RE at motor, sensory, cognitive, cardiac, vascular, respiratory, feeding, elimination and sexuality levels
2.2 Prevention of complications, readaptation and functional re-education
2.3 Prescription of physical activity and exercise
2.4. Manual and instrumental therapeutic techniques
2.5. Physical accessibility, client satisfaction, health promotion, well-being and self-care and promotion of social inclusion

CP1. Fundamentals of rehabilitation nursing
CP2. Environmental, social and human responses to the person with disabilities
CP3. Human kinesiology
CP4. Anatomo-physiopathological processes
CP5. Process of care
CP6. Rehabilitation Nursing and Sexuality
CP7. Advanced Nursing
CP8. Nursing Research
CP9. Management
CP10. Ethics and deontology. The total clinical component of the neurological process practice is 378 hours, comprising 252 contact hours which corresponds to 2/3 of
the total hours, maximum contact hours admitted by the Portuguese Nurses Order, notice no. 3915/2021, published on 3 March 2021.
The contact hours integrate the vascular (126H); degenerative (50H) and traumatologic (76H) processes.
The remaining 126 hours are hours of internship for students’ autonomous work.
Of the 23 OT, 18h are for the completion of the Final Report of the course and 5h for clinical supervision by the teacher

CP1 Planning a research study.
CP2 – Literature search/critical appraisal of scientific evidence
CP3 Formulating a research question in the area of rehabilitation nursing.
CP4 – Designing a research study in rehabilitation nursing
CP5 – Scientific writing in the development of a research project

CP1 Fundamentals of RN; CP2 Environmental, social and human responses to the person with disabilities; CP3 Human kinesiology; CP4 Anatomo-physiopathological processes; CP5 Process of care; CP6 RN and sexuality; CP7 RN: classic and complementary techniques; CP8 Innovation and entrepreneurship: current trends in RN; CP9 Advanced nursing; CP10 Research in nursing; CP11 Management; CP12 Ethics and deontology. CU of 622 H. 311H of contact (50%): comprise 162H in cardiorespiratory process [respiratory (40%) and cardiac (40%)]; 95H in orthotraumatologic process [orthopedic/reumatologic (40%) and traumatologic (40%)]. 54H (20%) for therapeutic option and techniques. Of the 188 OT, 182H are for completion of the Final Report and 6H for clinical supervision. The Report covers the clinical component of the course (Internship I and II) emphasizing the research in RN totaling 200 OT for the completion and discussion of the report.

CP1 – Operationalization of a research study in the area of rehabilitation nursing.
1.1 Bibliographic research / critical appraisal of scientific evidence
CP2 – Methodologies for qualitative / quantitative data analysis
2.1 Descriptive/inferential statistics: statistical software
2.2 Presentation, analysis and evaluation of quantitative data
2.3 Assumptions of data analysis in qualitative research
2.4 Qualitative Data Analysis Programs
2.5 Analysis/Interpretation of Findings from Qualitative Studies
CP3 – Principles to be observed when writing the dissertation report
CP4 – Communication of research results
4.1 Scientific writing and dissemination of results
4.2 Writing scientific articles