Undergraduate Degree in Nursing

The cycle of studies of the Undergraduate Degree in Nursing is comprised of 8 semesters (4 academic years). Those who obtain 240 ECTS are awarded the title.
This degree promotes the development of scientific, technical, human and relational skills. Its main objective it to enable students to be capable of practicing duties related to Nursing.
According to the preamble of the law decree number 353/99, of 3rd of September of 1999, this undergraduate degree aims at “ensuring the scientific, technical, human and cultural training for the provision and management of nursing care to individuals, families, groups and community, during their whole vital cycle, in the various levels of prevention.
This undergraduate degree’s foundation is a training model comprised of theoretical, practical and clinical teaching components. Clinical Teaching is the learning component done in field work, in a practical context of health care and nursing provisions, and where students have direct contact with individuals and groups, whether they are healthy or not.
Admission to this course implies the mandatory fulfilment of the prerequisite of "Group A - Interpersonal Comunication".