Master’s Course Structure

Aug 24, 2024

The Master’s Degree in Nursing, with its two Areas of Concentration, consists of 24 credits:

  • 16 credits in compulsory subjects – common to both areas, with 3 in complementary axis subjects, which broaden the common instrumental base in Research;
  • 2 credits in electives from the flexible axis, teaching internships, complementary activities, in subjects from the PEN Master’s Degree, from other UFSC stricto sensu courses or in validated subjects from other courses (respecting the regulatory limits for validation);
  • 6 Dissertation credits.

CURRICULUM

Area of Concentration 1: Health Care and Nursing in the Human Living Process Concentration Area 2: Education, Work and Management in Health and Nursing
Common Compulsory Subjects – Area 1 and 2 (fulfill 16 credits)
  • Theoretical and Methodological Foundations for Research in Health and Nursing – 4 credits
  • Theoretical-Philosophical Concepts in Health and Nursing – 3 credits
  • Education, Work and Management in Health and Nursing – 3 credits
  • Quantitative Research in Health and Nursing – 3 credits
  • Qualitative Research in Health and Nursing – 3 credits
DISSERTATION – 6 CREDITS
Common electives Master’s and Doctorate (fulfill 2 credits)
  • Special Topics in Research – 1 to 2 credits
  • Special Topics in Health and Nursing – 1 to 2 credits
  • Teaching Internship – 2 to 3 credits
  • Convergent Care Research (PCA) – 3 credits
  • Sociocultural History in Education, Health and Nursing – 3 credits
  • Teacher Training and Development in Health and Nursing – 3 credits
  • Care in acute health situations – 3 credits
  • Public policies in women’s and newborn’s health care – 3 credits
  • Ethics and bioethics in Health – 3 credits
  • Clinical Research in Health Care and Nursing – 3 credits
  • Writing Scientific Articles – 3 credits

Complementary Activities:

  • Complementary research activity – 1 to 2 credits
  • Complementary activity in extension – 1 to 2 credits

Total: 24 credits. Maximum time to complete the course: 24 months.

COURSE SYLLABUS


NFR 3310000 – Theoretical and Methodological Foundations for Health and Nursing Research – 4 credits

Syllabus: Scientific thought. Epistemology and the history of science. Research as a tool for intervention in reality. Research designs. Qualitative and quantitative studies in nursing and health. General stages of scientific research. Ethics in research.


NFR 410083 – Theoretical-Philosophical Concepts in Health and Nursing – 3 credits

Syllabus: Different epistemological currents of thought in health and nursing. The evolution of knowledge in health and nursing. Theoretical references in the current context of health and nursing care. Ethics and the health and nursing profession.


NFR 410084 – Education, Work and Management in Health and Nursing – 3 credits

Syllabus: Scenario of professional practices in health and nursing – historical, sociological and political dimensions. Training in health and nursing. Public policies and management in education, health and nursing. Managerial skills in health and nursing.


NFR 410030 – Qualitative Research in Health and Nursing – 3 credits

Syllabus: Qualitative research projects: bases, trends and methodological perspectives. Theoretical and methodological background for the development of the dissertation project. Data collection and analysis strategies.


NFR410031 – Quantitative Research in Health and Nursing – 3 credits

Syllabus: Quantitative research projects: bases, trends and methodological perspectives. Theoretical and methodological in-depth study of quantitative research designs. Data collection strategies. Parametric and non-parametric data analysis methods.


ELECTIVES

NFR3341001 – Convergent Care Research Methodology – 3 credits

Syllabus: Research-intervention projects: bases, trends and methodological perspectives. Convergent care research. Theoretical and methodological depth for the development of the dissertation project. Data collection and analysis strategies.

NFR 510078 – Care in acute situations – 3 credits

Syllabus: Nursing care for people in acute and emergent situations in the process of living, becoming ill and dying. Health promotion and accident prevention. Evidence-based practice.

NFR 510074 – Public policies in women’s and newborns’ health care – 3 credits

Syllabus: Historical and political aspects related to the health of women and newborns. Contextualization of government programs, current legislation and the contribution of nursing in the area.

NFR 410086 – Ethics and bioethics in Health and Nursing – 3 credits

Syllabus: Ethical-philosophical reflection on issues in the field of health and nursing. Bioethics as a field of interdisciplinary knowledge and political action. Conceptual bases of bioethics. Bioethics and Biopolitics. Values, argumentation and moral deliberation as critical tools for professional practice in health and nursing.

NFR410085 – Sociocultural History of Education, Health and Nursing – 3 credits

Syllabus: Nursing as a historically constructed practice. History of therapeutic practices and training in health and nursing. The historical relationship between professional practice and social structure, health policies, paradigms of knowledge production and health policies. Objects of study, theoretical and methodological approaches in history. Teaching the history of nursing and developing a critical awareness of the profession.

NFR510116 – Clinical Research in Health Care and Nursing – 3 credits

Syllabus: Principles of clinical research in health and nursing, semi-experimental and experimental studies. Issues identified in clinical practice and aimed at analyzing the effects of nursing actions and interventions with an impact on people’s health. Principles and methods of clinical research for the quality and safety of health care. Ethical aspects, standards for planning, recording and reporting clinical trials.

NFR510066 – Teacher Training and Development in Health and Nursing – 3 credits

Syllabus: Theoretical and philosophical aspects of teacher training in nursing and health. Critical and reflective teacher training. Concepts, assumptions and trends in teaching and learning. Analysis of education policies. Evaluation in teaching. Teaching-service integration.

NFR510102 – Writing Scientific Articles – 3 credits

Syllabus: Rules and stages for writing and developing scientific articles. Criteria for evaluating manuscripts submitted for publication in scientific journals. Criteria for authorship of scientific articles. Challenges and commitments in scientific publishing. Ethical aspects in preparing and finalizing a scientific article.

Special Topics in Research – 1 to 2 credits

Syllabus: Development of current, controversial and/or innovative themes of interest to research, production and dissemination of knowledge in health and nursing. Of interest to society, professional organizations and science in the context of health and nursing. Note: This subject is offered on the initiative of the program, in response to demands raised with a group of students (at least 5 students), or due to opportunities for exchange of professors and projects. It will have a specific syllabus, according to the chosen topic.

Special Topics in Health and Nursing – 1 to 2 credits

Syllabus: Development of current, controversial and/or innovative topics of interest to health and nursing, in different social contexts. Note: This subject is offered at the initiative of the program, in response to demands raised with a group of students (at least 5 students), or by opportunities for exchange of teachers and projects. It will have a specific syllabus, according to the chosen topic.

Teaching Internship – 2 to 3 credits

Syllabus: Participation in teaching activities at secondary, undergraduate or postgraduate level. Application of innovative teaching and learning methodologies/technologies. Inter-institutional exchange of curricular and/or extra-curricular activities.

Complementary research activity (ACP) – 1 to 2 credits

Syllabus: activities developed by the postgraduate student which, upon proof of their relevance to the researcher’s training, can be validated. Each postgraduate student can add up to 4 credits in different CRAs. PEN will regulate the types of PCA and credits to be awarded in a specific normative instruction.

Complementary activity in extension (ACE) – 1 to 2 credits

Syllabus: activities developed by the postgraduate student which, upon proof of their relevance and relevant differential for academic training and social insertion, can be validated. Each postgraduate student can add up to 4 credits in different ACEs. The PEN will regulate the types of ACE and the credits to be awarded. For example: organizing national or local events; offering extension courses; presenting a paper at an event abroad.

DISSERTATION credits – 6 credits

This is the development of activities to deepen the theory and methodology of the course’s final work.