Community Nursing, in the area of Family Health Nursing

Master’s Programme

Considering the family as a unit of care, and that the Community Health Nursing Specialist Nurse in the area of Family Health Nursing, this Programme promotes its empowerment by focusing on the family as a whole and its individual members throughout the life cycle and their transitions; and Manages, articulates and mobilizes the resources necessary to provide family care, from the two specific competences of the Community Nursing Specialist Nurse, in the area of Family Health Nursing, the following learning objectives merge:

Take care of the family as a care unit and of its members throughout the life cycle and at different levels of prevention;
Lead and collaborate in intervention processes within the scope of family health nursing.

Programme Coordinator

João Manuel Graça Frade
coord.mec-esf.ess@ipleiria.pt

Reference

2070

School

Health Sciences

City

Leiria

Language

Portuguese

Type

Evening

Length

3 Semestres

Vacancies

General and International student contingent: 20

Notice

Edital 2025 2v (PT Doc)

DGES certification

Link to Registration

Objectives

Programme

Develop a systemic view of family functioning by perceiving it as a process of transformative coevolution between systems and contexts;
Understand the references and theoretical foundations of Family Nursing;
Acquire knowledge that enhances the ability to make decisions in the process of family assessment and intervention;
To equate the contributions of the Family Assessment and Intervention Models in the development of Family Health Nursing practices;
Provide specific care at different stages of the family life cycle at the primary, secondary and tertiary prevention levels;
Play the role of expert in the health team in Family Health Nursing;
Promote the ability to make ethical decisions;
Stimulate processes of change and innovation in the light of scientific knowledge and research;
Streamline the construction and diffusion of knowledge in the area of Family Health Nursing

Study Plan

ECTS: 90

1º Ano
2º Ano

1º Ano
ID	Name	Semester	ECTS	Length
	Advanced nursing	S1	4	36 h
CP1. Conceptual framework of nursing care 1.1. Nursing Development: discipline and profession 1.2. Characterization and Patterns of Nursing Knowledge 1.3. Quality Standards of Specialized Nursing Care CP2 Nursing and advanced practice 15/10/2019 NCE/19/1900176 — Apresentação do pedido – Novo ciclo de estudos https://www.a3es.pt/si/iportal.php/process_form/print?processId=d4c1f049-e506-4b18-839c-5d89e4cff22b&formId=ecae5745-753a-cca6-31dd-5… 8/54 2.1. Advanced Practice Concepts and Evolution 2.2. Professional development 2.3. Applicability of knowledge in advanced practice 2.4. Advanced Practice Templates CP3. Nursing and Law CP4. Customer Centered Care in Family Health 4.1. Nursing practices and models applied to specialized advanced nursing CP5.Language classified for family health nursing practice 5.1.Nursing diagnoses 5.2.Specific sensitive nursing care indicators CP6. Results and visibility of nursing care 6.1 Nursing Information Systems 6.2. Family Health Nursing Taxonomy
	Nursing Research	S1	3	32 h
CP1 – Evidence Based Practice 1.1 Evidence-based practice and decision making 1.2 Evidence Synthesis Methodologies 1.3 Systematic literature review 1.4 Methodological Quality Assessment 1.5 Review Protocols CP2 – Research Drawings and Phases 2.1 Paradigms of scientific research in nursing 2.2 Research Steps 2.3 Data Collection Techniques / Instruments 2.4 Psychometric study of instruments 2.5 Research Ethics CP3 – Data Analysis Methodologies 3.1 Descriptive / Inferential Statistics: Statistical Programs 3.2 Presentation, analysis and evaluation of quantitative data 3.3 Data analysis assumptions in qualitative research 3.4 Qualitative Data Analysis Programs 3.5 Analysis / interpretation of findings from qualitative studies CP4 – Project Construction and Reporting and Research CP5 – Communication of Research Results 5.1 Writing of scientific articles
	Nursing Ethics and Deontology	S1	2	18 h
CP1 – Ethical Principles in Health Care CP1.1 – Rationale of Clinical Ethics. Bioethical principles. Ethical, ontological and legal issues of praxis. CP2 – Ethical Decision Making CP2.1 Nursing decision-making process in solving problems associated with specialized practice situations. CP3 – The Nursing Code of Practice and the Regulation of professional practice in the context of specialized nursing practice. The ethical-deontological values and legal aspects inherent to the nursing exercise. CP4 – Ethical, deontological and legal issues of specialized practice in community health nursing: the family nurse / family health nursing.
	Advanced Nursing Management	S1	3	27 h
CP1. Nursing Care Management and Organization 1.1 The various levels of nursing care management 1.2 Comprehensive care and customer-centered care 1.3 Patient safety and risk management CP2 People Management and Leadership 3.1. Clinical context leadership and conflict management processes 3.2 The Delegation 3.3 Secure Nursing Appropriations 3.4 Professional Performance and Performance Evaluation 3.5 clinical supervision CP3. Jurisprudence, Health Policy and Systems 1.1. Health Organization Specifics 1.2. Healthcare Reforms CP4. Clinical Governance and Health Quality Management 2.1. Quality and development of health services 2.2 Health management and quality concepts, models and tools 2.3. Health outcomes: Indicators for better nursing practice
	Sociopolitical and epistemological references	S1	6	56 h
CP1.Sociopolitical and epistemological references 1.1 – International and national references of family health nursing CP2 Social and family health policies 2.1 – Epistemological and family health nursing references. CP 3 – Family Nursing Theories 3.1 – Family Development Theories 3.2-Theories of family systems: from the notion of system to a systemic view Theoretical triangle: General Theory of Systems, Theory of Communication; Human and Cybernetics; 3.3- Structural School, Transgenerational Model, Strategic Models, Narrative Models, Therapies conversational collaborative, Solution-centered therapy.
	The Family as a Care Unit	S1	7	65 h
CP1. The Family as a Care Unit CP1.1Structuring Concepts: Family (s), Transforming Families, and Family Health Nursing CP1.2. Families, culture (s), gender and power CP1.3Family transitions: developmental, health-disease, and situational CP1.4. Family nursing care process CP1.5 Caring for Informal Caregivers, Autonomy / Dependency, and End of Life CP1.6. Evidence-based practice around the family as a care unit.
	Communication and interaction	S1	5	47 h
CP1. Communication and relationship: 1.1. Communication in the therapeutic relationship 1.2. Self-knowledge and therapeutic use of self CP2 Communication in the crisis 2.1. Concepts and theories of crisis intervention 2.2. Communication models in the crisis 2.3. Communicate in the grieving process CP3. Team communication and referral 3.1. Intrainstitutional Communication 3.2. Extra-institutional communication CP4. Health Information Systems 4.1. Family Nursing Taxonomy 4.2. New technologies and communication in family health nursing CP5. Promotion of Family Health Nursing through the Media 5.1. Communicate through the media 5.2. Advocate for family health nursing
	Models and techniques of family assessment and intervention	S2	8	74 h
CP1. The Family as a Care Unit CP1.1Structuring Concepts: Family (s), Transforming Families, and Family Health Nursing CP1.2. Families, culture (s), gender and power CP1.3Family transitions: developmental, health-disease, and situational CP1.4. Family nursing care process CP1.5 Caring for Informal Caregivers, Autonomy / Dependency, and End of Life CP1.6. Evidence-based practice around the family as a care unit
	Individual throughout the life cycle, inserted in the family, at different levels of prevention	S2	7	65 h
CP1.Individual throughout the life cycle, inserted in the family, at different levels of prevention CP1.1. Anthropobiopsychosocial, cultural and spiritual care in the context of: Child and youth health Sexual and reproductive health Adult and Elderly Health CP1.2. Management of chronic disease, self-care and literacy CP1.3. Evidence-based practice around the individual in the fa
	Stage I (Family Care Nursing in the context of USF/UCSP)	S2	8	108 h
CP1. Competences analysis of the nurse specialist in the field of Family Health Nursing CP2 Analysis of family health nursing intervention focuses using classified language CP3. Family nursing process with practical application based on family intervention models
	Stage II (Family Care Nursing in the context of USF/UCSP)	S2	7	94,5 h
CP1. Design, organization, delivery and supervision of specialized nursing care to the family in complex situations, with the mobilization and application of scientific evidence nursing theoretical references and all the syllabus covered in the course. CP2 Empowerment of the family as a whole and its individual members throughout the life cycle and its transitions CP3. Reflection on the practice of family health nursing care to complex situations

2º Ano
ID	Name	Semester	ECTS	Length
	Internship and Internship Project	Anual	30
Professional nature internship in Family Care Nursing in the context of USF or UCSP with Final Report CP1. Analysis and reflection of specialized nursing care CP2 Contextualization of the professional internship CP3. Preparation, presentation and dissemination of the internship report Project CP1. Situation diagnosis: Identification of problems in different family health contexts CP2 Interdisciplinary coordinated intervention planning CP3. Intervention Strategies: Stakeholder coordination and integration CP4. Family health intervention: multidisciplinary and multicultural contexts CP5. Project Impact Assessment 5.1. Assessing the effectiveness of problem solving 5.2. Final project report writing and communication of results

Entry Requirements

Academic and professional, where it appears as condition specifies the classification of the degree in nursing; graduate and masters in nursing and other postgraduate courses;
Vocational training courses developed in the last 5 years;
Functions performed in the health field;
Participation in the elaboration health programs;
Publications and communications
Length of service as a nurse.
The weighting of these 6 components should give a rating ranging from 0 to 20 values.

International Student
All information related to the international student application should be consulted on our International Students webpage.

Accreditation

State: Accredited
N. years of accreditation: 6
Publication date: 31-07-2020
Accreditation A3ES

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E-mail: studywithus@ipleiria.pt

Application Fee

60€

Enrolment Fee

Contingente geral: 50€
Contingente estudante internacional: 100€

Tuition Fee

Contingente geral: 2000€
Contingente estudante internacional: 3000€

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Community Nursing, in the area of Family Health Nursing

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