Master in Medical-Surgical Critical Care Nursing

The Master’s Degree in Medical-Surgical Critical Care Nursing is part of the ESEP’s post-graduate training policy, within the framework of a strategy aligned with its statutory mission. The course is based on the articulation between research, teaching and providing a response to the population’s health needs.

This master’s degree is part of the ESEP’s post-graduate training offer, with a strong orientation towards the development of advanced skills, predominantly clinical in nature, with a focus on human responses to health problems and life processes associated with “critical situations”, with a focus on making evident the contribution of nursing care to health gains for the population.

This course, respecting the core of the ESEP’s educational and scientific project, meets, among other aspects, the requirements and principles of analysis of the specialised training in Nursing of the Nursing Order (NO), namely in what concerns the possibility of later attribution of the professional title of Specialist Nurse to the holders of the Master’s Degree in Medical-Surgical Critical Care Nursing.

Learning outcomes

• To further improve the knowledge on the theoretical fundamentals of nursing in the context of complex processes of critical illness and/or organ failure, which allow the development of critical thinking about specialized nursing care in Nursing;
• To acquire ethical and deontological knowledge that allows the development of scientific, technical and human competencies to provide nursing care to people in critical situation;
• To contribute to the training of nurses with competencies for the production ad application of advanced scientific knowledge, as well as for autonomous, reflective decision-making based on the best available evidence;
• To develop research capacity as a process of knowledge transformation;
• To contribute to the training of nurses in coordination competencies of nursing teams and managing “vulnerale cases”, in a perspective of providing care to clients, throughout a “continuum” of care.