Master’s in Rehabilitation Nursing

The study program’s generic objectives: 

• Developing skills in Nursing in Rehabilitation that enable the student to take care of the person with special needs throughout the lifecycle, in all contexts, empowering the person with disabilities, limiting activity and / or restricting participation for reintegration and exercise citizenship, maximizing their functional capacity. 
• Develop skills that allow you to learn autonomously throughout life, contributing to the planning and implementation of Rehabilitation Nursing interventions.
• Develop skills, respecting professional ethical-deontological principles, in the decision-making process, in complex and unpredictable situations of Nurse Rehabilitation in order to implement specific and general care of excellence. 
• To confer skills that enable the student to pursue the essential objectives of the 2nd cycle of studies in higher education.

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

• Formulate early diagnoses preventing complications through therapeutic interventions aimed at improving, maintaining, or recovering self-care.
• Improve the functional capacity promoting the independence and maximum satisfaction of the person and family, minimizing the impact of disabilities resulting from neurological, cardiorespiratory, ortho-traumatological, rheumatological and elimination processes.
• Guarantee the Nursing Rehabilitation care process by adopting a scientific, human, and ethical conduct that promote person-centered care and transition to family and community reintegration.
• Design strategies that promote self-development, of peers and other professionals aiming at change, innovation to improve results in Nursing in Rehabilitation.
• Demonstrate to have developed competences, knowledge and understanding inherent to the degree of Master collaborating in the production and use of scientific evidence in the area.

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 the 3 study cycles: undergraduate, master's and doctorate (in collaboration with the University of Lisbon), thus responding to expectations of the large number of candidates for pre- and post-graduate training at ESEL and the needs in human resources in health. More specifically in terms of postgraduate training, in recent years, there has been a new increase in students that demonstrates the interest of nurses and the need for more human resources with knowledge, understanding and intervention skills directed specifically at the level of areas of specialty. The recent reflection on the offer of existing master's degrees at ESEL identified the need for further deepening and scientific autonomy of the various areas of specialization for which ESEL has its own qualified and specialized teaching staff that will allow the development of these teams and their competences and the reinforcement of research within the nursing discipline. The present master's proposal is a response to the needs of the person, based on the use of scientific evidence, oriented towards results sensitive to rehabilitation nursing care, to ensure the maintenance of functional capacity, prevent complications and avoid disabilities. As well as providing therapeutic interventions aimed at improving residual functions, maintaining or recovering independence in life activities and minimizing the impact of disabilities, whether due to illness or accident, throughout the life cycle. In this context, there is a clear need to respond to new challenges imposed by the health condition that causes inability to limit activity and restrict participation, promoting citizen empowerment, active participation and the continuous search for family and social inclusion. The curriculum is built on the competences of the 1st cycle and has a horizon for the PhD program in nursing at the University of Lisbon in partnership with ESEL. It is constituted as a stage of training in nursing that articulates the 3 study cycles being anchored in a teaching staff composed of doctors, masters and specialists of recognized merit.