
Medical-Surgical Nursing – Area in Nursing to the Person in Critical Condition
Medical-Surgical Nursing – Area in Nursing to the Person in Critical Condition
Programme Introduction
This Master is awarded to the student who demonstrates:
- Care for people in an emergent critical condition;
- Manage the administration of treatment protocols;
- Manage the interpersonal communication that underlies the therapeutic relationship with a person/family regarding the high complexity situation of their health condition;
- Does the management of differentiated pain and well-being of the person in critical condition;
- Design, in conjunction with the strategic level, disaster or emergency plans;
- Plan the specific response to persons in an emergency situation or a multi-victim disaster;
- Design a prevention and infection control plan;
- Displays the ability to review and critical analysis, ability to autonomous organization and planning with a view to solving problems in new situations, ability to research and application of concepts to the practice, planning and time management, ability to teamwork,ethical behavior, motivation and initiative.
Programme Coordinator
Maria dos Anjos Coelho Rodrigues Dixe
coord.memc-epsc.ess@ipleiria.pt
School
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Vacancies
General and International student contingent: 25
Notice
Edital 2025 (PT Doc)
DGES certification

Objectives
- Acquire scientific knowledge in the field of nursing for people in critical situations;
- Develop specialized nursing interventions for medium and high risk patients, integrating the family in the healthteam;
- To take care of the person and the family experiencing complex processes of critical illness and/or organ failure;
- Dynamize the response in emergency, exception and catastrophe situations;
- Maximize the prevention, intervention and control of infection and antimicrobial resistance in the person in criticalcondition and/or organ failure;
- Stimulate the construction and diffusion of knowledge in the area of nursing to the person in critical situation;
- Promote the capacity to make ethical decisions;
- Stimulate change and innovation processes in the light of scientific knowledge and research;
- Know the strategies and the importance in the management of resources in the provision of care;
- Develop skills for the organization and evaluation of Nursing care.
Study Plan
- 1st Year
- 2nd Year
ID | Name | Semester | ECTS | Length |
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The Person in Critical Condition and/or Organ Failure | 1st Semester | 3 | 30 h | |
CP1. Conceptual framework of the person in critical condition | ||||
Complex Processes of Critical Illness and/or Organ Failure | 1st Semester | 7 | 96 h | |
CP1: Complex processes of critical illness and/or organ failure related to: | ||||
Nursing the Person in Critical Condition and/or Organ Failure | 1st Semester | 8 | 96 h | |
CP1- Care focused on the person in critical condition (CSP) and organ failure in various contexts | ||||
Applied Research Methodology | 1st Semester | 3 | 30 h | |
CP1 – Evidence Based Practice (EBP) | ||||
Nursing Management | 1st Semester | 3 | 30 h | |
CP1. Management and organization of nursing care | ||||
Advance Nursing | 1st Semester | 4 | 36 h | |
CP1. Conceptual framework of nursing care | ||||
Ethics and Deontology in Nursing | 1st Semester | 2 | 20 h | |
CP1 – Ethical Principles in Health Care | ||||
Relationship and Communication in Health | 2nd Semester | 4 | 62 h | |
CP1.Interpersonal relationship in health | ||||
HAI (Healthcare-Associated Infection) Prevention and Control | 2nd Semester | 4 | 32 h | |
CP1. Epistemology of prevention and control of HAI | ||||
Nursing in Emergency, Exceptional and Catastrophic Situations | 2nd Semester | 4 | 40 h | |
CP1. Conceptualization of health care in emergency, exception and catastrophe situations | ||||
Care Supervision | 2nd Semester | 3 | 32 h | |
CP1. Clinical supervision in nursing | ||||
Elective I | 2nd Semester | 15 | ||
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ID | Name | Semester | ECTS | Length |
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Elective II | 3rd Semester | 30 | ||
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Entry Requirements
Entry and admission requirements:
- Holders of a bachelor’s degree in nursing, or legal equivalent;
- The holders of the 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 that adheres to this process;
- Holders of a foreign higher academic degree or those with a scientific or professional curriculum who have their respective degree/curriculum previously recognized by the ESSLei’s (School of health Sciences-Polytechinc of leiria) Technical-Scientific Council (according to the terms of Article 17.º of Decree-Law N.º 74/2006, of March 24, asamended). This recognition is only valid for the access to the study cycle leading to the master’s degree, and does notgrant the holder the equivalence to the degree of first degree course or the recognition of that degree.
Entry and admission requirements:
- Holders of a bachelor’s degree in nursing, or legal equivalent;
- The holders of the 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 that adheres to this process;
- Holders of a foreign higher academic degree or those with a scientific or professional curriculum who have their respective degree/curriculum previously recognized by the ESSLei’s (School of health Sciences-Polytechinc of leiria) Technical-Scientific Council (according to the terms of Article 17.º of Decree-Law N.º 74/2006, of March 24, asamended). This recognition is only valid for the access to the study cycle leading to the master’s degree, and does notgrant the holder the equivalence to the degree of first degree course or the recognition of that degree.
Accreditation
State: Accredited
Number of years of accreditation: 6
Publication date: 20/05/2022
State: Accredited
Number of years of accreditation: 6
Publication date: 20/05/2022
More Information
Contacts
E-mail: studywithus@ipleiria.pt
Contacts
E-mail: studywithus@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 €
