The Graduate Program in Nursing (PEN) at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) achieved concept 6/7 (course concept/maximum concept on the CAPES scale) in the last triennial evaluation in 2012. It was created in 1976 with a Master’s Degree and has offered a Doctorate since 1993. In terms of its scope, the program has consolidated its significant regional, national and international presence.
In terms of social insertion and national solidarity, this program has played an outstanding role, promoting the graduation of masters and doctors through Expanded Courses with the Postgraduate Promotion Network of the Southern Region (REPENSUL) in the 90s. With the creation of the Network linking five Hubs in the Southern Region to the promoter UFSC, namely: Federal University of Paraná, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Federal University of Santa Maria, Federal University of Pelotas and the University of Rio Grande Foundation. This movement has boosted postgraduate studies and the number of masters and doctors, as well as the creation of the Application for New Course Proposals (APCN) in these five Hubs. Therefore, the development of postgraduate studies in the Southern Region is due to PEN/UFSC, which has spared no effort to achieve the reality that is now consolidated.
With regard to its international solidarity, from its creation in 1976 to the present day, PEN/UFSC has awarded degrees:
- 18 Masters, of which: seven from Peru (Giovanna Mercado Torres, Narda Estela Calsin Chirinos, Gladys Amelia Velez Benito, Lita Miriam Moore Espinoza, Maria de Jesus Hernandez Rodrigues and Anita Hernandez Rodrigues and Justina Contreras Choque), two from Costa Rica (Nora Agnes Vega Villalobos and Jaime Alonso Caravaca Moreira), 01 from Argentina (Carlos Alberto Medrano), four from Portugal (Ana Filipa Marques Vieira Cascais, Jenifer Adriana Domingues Guedes, Paulo Jorge dos Santos Almeida and Pedro Miguel Garcez Sardo), one from Ecuador (Marlene de los Angeles Segovia Herrera), three from Angola (Alexandrino Sansunga Simão, Silvano Cameia, Wilson Lukamba).
- 18 Doctors four from Colombia (Maria Marlene Montes Valverde, Marta Lucía Vasques, Clara Virginia Caro Castillo and Maria Angelica Arzuaga Salazar), two from Chile (Alejandrina Arratia Figueiroa and Maria Soledad Rivera), 02 from Costa Rica (Nora Agnes Vega Villalobos, Jaime Alonso Caravaca Morera), two from Argentina (Josefa Aida Delgado and Carlos Alberto Medrano), four from Peru (Maria de Jesus Hernandez Rodrigues, Gladys Carmela Santos Falcón, Lita Miriam Moore Espinoza and Narda Estela Calsin Chirinos) and one from Uruguay (Raul Fernando Sotelo Prandoni), two from Pakistan (Najma Naz and Sabiha Khanum).
- 9 post-doctoral students, five from Spain (Ana Maria Porcel Gálvez, Antonio Fernandes Martinez, Maria Angeles Garcia-Carpinero Munõz, María Aurora Rodríguez Borrego and Maria Eugenia Gil Garcia), one from Mexico (Lucila Cardenas Becerril), two from Portugal (Maria do Céu Aguiar B. de Figueiredo and Maria Neto da Cruz Leitão) and one from Peru (Maria de Jesus Hernandez Rodrigues).
So far in 2017, 44 professionals have graduated from PEN/UFSC from 10 countries in Ibero-America and Africa: Angola, Peru, Costa Rica, Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, Portugal and Spain, as well as Angola and Pakistan.
An important achievement was the approval by CAPES of PEN/UFSC’s International MINTER with the University of Magallanes – Punta Arenas/Chile, for the qualification of 20 masters in nursing, promoting the qualification of the area in Latin America.
In nine editions of the CAPES Thesis Prize, PEN has won awards in six of them.
Capes Thesis Award in 2008 (3rd Edition), 2011 (6th Edition) and 2015 (10th Edition):
- 2008
- Author: Nalú Pereira da Costa Kerber / Supervisor: Ana Lúcia Cardoso
- Thesis: Home care and the right to health: an analysis of an experience in Brazil’s public health network
- 2011
- Author: Dulcinéia Ghizoni Schneider / Advisor: Flávia Regina Souza Ramos
- Thesis: Professional discourses and moral deliberation: an analysis based on ethical nursing processes
- 2015
- Author: Ana Graziela Alvarez / Advisor: Grace Terezinha Marcon Dal Sasso
- Thesis: Persuasive technology in learning to assess acute pain in nursing
Honorable Mention in 2006 (1st Edition), 2012 (7th Edition) and 2014 (9th Edition)
- 2006:
- Author: Ana Lúcia Schaeffer Ferreira de Mello / Supervisor: Alacoque Lorenzini Erdmann
- Thesis: Promoting oral health care for the elderly: revealing contradictions in the care process and incorporating best practices from the context of a long-term care institution for the elderly
- 2012:
- Author: Gisele Cristina Manfrini Fernandes / Advisor: Astrid Eggert Boehs
- Thesis: Routines and rituals of care in rural families in unexpected post-disaster transition
- 2014:
- Author: Jorge Lorenzetti / Supervisor: Francine Lima Gelbcke
- Thesis: Praxis: management technology for hospital inpatient units
On May 10, 2013, there was an expansion of the infrastructure to meet the needs of our work, with the inauguration of the Nursing and Health Care Research and Technology Center (CEPETEC).
