Master in Medical-Surgical Palliative Care Nursing

The Master’s Degree in Master in Medical-Surgical Palliative 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 interconnection between research, teaching and responding to the health needs of the population.

This Master’s Degree has as its reference the Nursing Order Training Plan for specialised training in Community and Family Health Nursing.
The Course, which is also in line with the national plan for mental health and the most recent WHO guidelines for this area, has a strong orientation towards the development of advanced competencies, predominantly clinical in nature, with a focus on human responses to health problems and life processes, associated with palliative care, with a goal of making evident the contribution of nursing care to the population’s health gains in this area.

The course respects the requirements and principles of analysis of the specialised training in Nursing of the Nursing Order (NO), namely as regards the possibility of later awarding the professional title of Specialist Nurse to those who hold the Master’s Degree in CMedical-Surgical Palliative Care Nursing. This course will contribute to the training of professionals who constitute critical mass for the development of autonomous and collaborative activities in the area of community health and public health nursing, based on their skills in health planning, epidemiology and biostatistics, and the production and use of the best scientific evidence, among others. It is intended to be relevant for collaboration in the implementation of health policies and in primary health care organization policies. Finally, it is also intended to be relevant to the creation, implementation and evaluation of health projects aimed at health promotion, disease prevention and community care.

Learning outcomes

• To investigate the area of palliative care;
• To develop projects that improve the quality of palliative care;
• To comply with national and internation guidelines related to the education and training of 2nd cycle in palliative care;
• To develop skills for the professional practice of palliative care in line with that proposed by the Order of Nurses in diferente ethical and deontological contexts, in hospital teams and commu-nity support teams in palliative care. The educational project of the course is part of ESEP’s scien-tific and cultural project, aiming to develop students’ skills in care design and clinical decision-making based on nursing ontology and e4nursing.