
Community Nursing – Area of Nursing Community Health and Public Health
Community Nursing – Area of Nursing Community Health and Public Health
Programme Introduction
Community Nursing – Community Health and Public Health Nursing, is an emerging and pressing area, not only because of thepublic health context that we live in, but also because it is the clinical area that has as main focus the prevention of disease andpromoting the health of communities.
Access to this training, at the master’s level, enables professionals to a level of professional demand and clinical rigor, based on anevidence-based practice, which allows them to integrate differentiated multidisciplinary teams with a clear contribution to thecommunity’s health gains.
This master programme responds to the training needs of the community, at the same time that it responds to the actual health challenge, not only in the district, but also nationally.
Programme Coordinator
Teresa Madalena Kraus Brincheiro Hüttel Barros
coord.mec-escsp.ess@ipleiria.pt
School
City
Language
Type
Length
Vacancies
General and International student contingent: 20
Notice
Edital 2024 (PT Doc)
DGES certification
Link to Registration
(updating)

Objectives
The Master in Community Nursing – Area of Community Health and Public Health Nursing, intends to train Specialist Nurses in Community Nursing – area Community Health and Public Health Nursing, namely:
- Develop a professional, ethical and legal practice in the area of the specialty;
- Develop compettences the field of continuous quality improvement;
- Develop compettences in the field of care management;
- Develop compettences in the field of professional learning development;
- Establishes, based on the Health Planning methodology, the assessment of the health status of a community;
- Contributes to the process of empowerment of groups and communities;
- Integrates the coordination of Health Programs at the community level and in achieving the objectives of the National Health Plan:
- Cooperates and perfornms epidemiological surveillance of geodemographic scope of a population or community.
Study Plan
- 1. Year
- 2. Year
ID | Name | Semester | ECTS | Length |
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Advanced Nursing | 1S | 4 | 36 h | |
CP1. Conceptual framework of nursing care | ||||
Nursing Investigation | 1S | 3 | 32 h | |
CP1 – Evidence-based practice (EBP) | ||||
Advanced Nursing Management | 1S | 3 | 32 h | |
CP1. Nursing care management and organization | ||||
Nursing Ethics and Deontology | 1S | 2 | 18 h | |
CP1 – Ethical principles in health care | ||||
Community Health and Public Health Nursing I | 2S | 5 | 60 h | |
CP1. Community health and intervention in groups: empowering groups and communities | ||||
Environmental Health | 1S | 3 | 29 h | |
CP1.Impact of Climate Change on Health | ||||
HealthPolicy and Clinical Governance | 1S | 5 | 55 h | |
CP1. Primary Health Care in Health Policy in Portugal and Europe | ||||
Epidemiology and Biostatistics | 1S | 5 | 47 h | |
CP1. Conceptual framework of epidemiology; | ||||
Community Health and Public Health Nursing II | 2S | 6 | 64 h | |
Primary Health Care: Promoting Literacy and Self-care | 2S | 2 | 26 h | |
CP1. Health Literacy: priorities and objectives | ||||
Health Plannig | 2S | 5 | 54 h | |
CP1. Conceptual framework of Planning in health policy as an instrument of management and change | ||||
Internship in Community Health and Public Health Nursing I | 2S | 15 | 125 h | |
Naturally, the syllabus converges to the objectives defined by the Order of Nurses (Regulation No. 428/2018), with the aim ofstudents developing the profile of specific skills of the specialist nurse in this area. | ||||
Elective | 2S | 2 | 24 h | |
Choose one of the following UC: Palliative Care in Community Context CP1 Philosophy and principles of PC Community Health Nursing Intervention in Active Aging CP1. Conceptual framework and determinants of active aging in GerontoGeriatrica Nursing |
ID | Name | Semester | ECTS | Length |
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Insternship/Project/Dissertation | 1S and 2S | 30 | 200 h | |
Entry Requirements
- Holders of a Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent qualification, in Nursing;
- Holders of a foreign higher academic degree, conferred following a 1st cycle of studies in Nursing, organized according to the principles of the Bologna process by a State adhering to this Process, with a duration of 240 ECTS;
- Holders of a foreign higher education degree who is recognized as meeting the objectives of a nursing degree by the Scientific Council of SHS;
- Holders of a scientific or professional curriculum who see the respective title / curriculum previously recognized by the SHSTechnical-scientific Council.
- Holders of a Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent qualification, in Nursing;
- Holders of a foreign higher academic degree, conferred following a 1st cycle of studies in Nursing, organized according to the principles of the Bologna process by a State adhering to this Process, with a duration of 240 ECTS;
- Holders of a foreign higher education degree who is recognized as meeting the objectives of a nursing degree by the Scientific Council of SHS;
- Holders of a scientific or professional curriculum who see the respective title / curriculum previously recognized by the SHSTechnical-scientific Council.
Accreditation
State: Accredited
Number of years of accreditation: 6
Publication date: 31/07/2021
State: Accredited
Number of years of accreditation: 6
Publication date: 31/07/2021
More Information
Contacts:
E-mail: estudante.internacional@.ipleiria.pt
Contacts:
E-mail: estudante.internacional@.ipleiria.pt
Application Fee
60€
60€
Enrolment Fee
General contingent: 50 €
International student contingent 100 €
General contingent: 50 €
International student contingent 100 €
Tuition Fee
General contingent 2.000 €
International student contingen 3.000 €
General contingent 2.000 €
International student contingen 3.000 €
