Nursing

Introduction

The Egas Moniz Higher School of Health (ESSEM) Undergraduate Degree in Nursing combines theoretical and theoretical-practical training with a strong practical component. Students will have internships in hospitals, health care centres and nursing homes right from the first to the last year of their degree. This allows you to acquire the technical skills you need to care for healthy or sick people throughout the various different stages of their life cycle, without foregoing the nurse’s social skills, interpersonal relations and patient focus, which are so important for a healthcare professional. As Florence Nightingale, considered to be the founder of modern nursing, stated: “Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with what having to do with the living body, the temple of God’s spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts; I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.”

As a profession, a nurse’s presence is mandatory in any team that provides health care, requiring a high scientific and technical preparation and a strong human component of proximity with the patient. In a hospital setting, where their action is more emblematic, nurses are an indispensable element with well-defined tasks, autonomy and professional responsibility. 

Aware of the challenges posed every day on nurses and the complexity of the health and disease situations they face, the ESSEM Undergraduate Degree in Nursing prepares competent nurses, capable of joining health care teams and responding to any request. 

The ageing population, the value placed on preventing diseases and the added need for care, not just at a hospital level, but also at a community and home level, make this profession a sure wager for the future. 

Nursing is a prestigious occupation, with good employability levels and the reflection of this and the quality of our degree is the wide acceptance our nurses experience in the labour market in Portugal and abroad. 
If you are seeking a profession with a high human component, if you are tailored to help, if you like others, then nursing is your future!

What makes us unique

• Internships in real context, since the first year of the degree. From an overall of 4605 hours there are 2310 hours of clinical practice at benchmark hospitals, health centers and nursing homes in the Greater Lisbon Area (which also includes our Senior Residence)
• Modern and well-equipped facilities, with the necessary materials and resources for learning, especially the communication / relationship laboratories and clinical practice, where an important part of the simulated practices takes place throughout the course.
• A young teaching body, qualified, updated with regard to what’s new in laboratorial developments and techniques and motivated to teach you.
• The possibility of exchanges at foreign universities, in particular through the Erasmus program.
• Taking part in several conferences, congresses and seminars that will keep you up to date with the most recent trends in several areas.
• A top-quality University Residence on campus, with numerous amenities on offer, such as a swimming pool, which ensures your well-being and safety, as if you were in your own home.
• An excellent academic environment, that is stimulating and active and includes teachers, researchers, professionals and students alike! You will attend parties, concerts, academic nights out and other initiatives organised by the Egas Moniz Student Associations, “Tunas” Groups and choir. You will also be able to practice several sports, whether at the gym or the playing field we have on offer for you.
• The privileged location of our campus, in Almada, 15 minutes from Lisbon and Costa de Caparica, with excellent accessibility (subway, train and bus).

Career Prospects and others

Once you complete your course you will be able to:

• Enroll in the Nurses' Association;
  
• Practice the profession of nurse in public and private health care units in different areas of activity (hospitals, health centers, occupational health and home care);
• Occupy roles of management / coordination in the different health units;
• Continue your studies, work as a researcher, practice as a teacher;
• After two years of professional practice you will be able to specialize in the various areas of Nursing: Community Health; Medical-Surgical; Rehabilitation; Child and Pediatric Health; Maternal and Obstetric Health and Mental and Psychiatric Health.

More information

• 📞 (+351) 212 946 751/52,
• 🖨 (+351) 212 946 733
• 🖥 secretaria@egasmoniz.edu.pt