Master’s in Nursing Management

The study program’s generic objectives: 

• The Course aims to train masters in nursing management (NM), capable of:
• Develop skills needed to innovate, contributing to greater efficiency, competitiveness and team leadership skills in healthcare units
• Understand the importance of NM at the macro and micro level of public and private health units;
• Understand the dynamics of change in management processes in health units
• Develop skills for the decision-making process in complex and unpredictable situations, at the level of NM, according to the principles of professional ethics and deontology Lead teams and management processes within the scope of nursing services.

Intended learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and competences) to be developed by the students:

• Demonstrate knowledge of care management, teams, units and health organizations;
• Apply, in an integrated manner, financial, economic, logistical and human knowledge to optimize nursing care (NC) within the scope of organizational performance; Investigate, analyze and evaluate specific management problems, proposing solutions based on scientific knowledge, methodological rigor and practical adequacy;
• Lead care and team management, change and innovation processes to achieve results in clients, teams and organizations;
• Adopt a scientific, human and ethical conduct that promotes the quality of efficient and customer-centered PCS Development research projects in nursing management in search of excellence in professional practice and the quality of NC;
• Develop skills for assessing and monitoring the quality and safety of NCs, customer and team satisfaction.

Insertion of the study program in the institutional educational offer strategy, considering the mission of the institution and its educational, scientific and cultural project:

ESEL's mission establishes that this is a “center for the creation, development, transmission and dissemination of nursing culture and science, which aims at excellence and innovation”. In this context, the training component is the center of ESEL's activity, which is why its educational project includes courses at the level of 3 study cycles: bachelor's, master’s and doctorate (in collaboration with the University of Lisbon), thus meeting expectations the large number of candidates for pre- and post-graduate training at ESEL and also the needs in human resources in the area of health. The Master of Nursing Management (MNM) contributes to ESEL's mission, constituting itself as a stage of nursing training that articulates the 3 study cycles, offering quality education through the training and development of the teaching staff with high skills of teaching and research, by increasing and participating in scientific research and innovation in nursing management, quality in terms of the human and work environment, in terms of technological resources, educational spaces and infrastructures; internal organization and management and institutional relations. This course guarantees socio-economic and cultural relevance determined by the development of its trainees about the professional and organizational differentiation they will have in the respective health organizations to which they belong. It guides training actions by ethical principles and values with respect for all personal, ideological, scientific or pedagogical differences. With regard to institutional relations that aim at the quality of specialized training, we have good relations with health organizations throughout the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region, namely the Lisbon Hospital Centers, Primary Health Care organizations, private and social organizations where students can develop the internship path.

The MNM proposed here takes advantage, in particular, of the experience accumulated in the 12 editions of a master's degree for the purpose, but also of research applied to nursing management and the interconnection with the research area “Organizational Environment in Health: Quality and Care Management”(AOS: QGC) of the Nursing Research & Development Unit, ESEL. Of note is the growing number of articles published in journals indexed by professors and researchers in this area of research. The MNM is part of ESEL's training offer strategy and has a horizon for the PhD program in nursing at the University of Lisbon in partnership with ESEL. with the need to increase scientific research, innovation and development and scientific dissemination; the expansion of partnerships with relevant organizations in the health area; internationalization; with increased scientific production resulting from research.