Master in Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing
Course presentation
It, thus, aims to train professionals on a 2nd cycle level and assign them with master’s skills, but also with competencies that respond to the profile of the specialist nurse in Mental Health Nursing, defined by the Order of Nurses and by several international organizations that regulate nursing practice.
The educational component proposed by this course aims at improving professional performance by seeking to contribute to the development of students’ skills in order to enable them for life long learning and develop skills to solve problems in new and/or complex situations in multidisciplinary contexts; develop solutions and issue judgments, including reflections on their ethical and social implications and the communication of conclusions in a clear and unambiguous way.
This Master’s Degree will contribute to the existence of professionals who will constitute a critical
mass for the implementation of mental health policies in the region and to participate with other national and international health professionals in the organization of mental health care policies as well as in the design, execution and evaluation of health projects that aim at the well-being and quality of life related to the health of the populations.
Goals
It is intended to train nurses who, within the scope of their specialist mental health competencies, have:
a) Knowledge and understanding of mental health at a profound level and of the mentally ill person, family, group and community, that forms the basis for original development and / or applications, including the research context;
b) Ability to apply knowledge, understand and solve problems in new and unfamiliar situations, in multidisciplinary mental health settings;
c) Ability to integrate knowledge, deal with complex issues, develop solutions or make judgments in situations of limited / incomplete information, including reflections on ethical and social implications and responsibilities;
d) Ability to communicate their conclusions, knowledge and clinical reasoning in a clear and unambiguous manner;
e) Competences that enable them to lifelong learning, mostly in a self-directed and autonomous manner.
Curricular plan
| Code | Curricular Unit | Period | ECTS | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal Development and Therapeutic Communication | 1st Semester | 6 | 65 h | |
| Advanced Nursing | 1st Semester | 4 | 36 h | |
| Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing | 1st Semester | 5 | 54 h | |
| Nursing Management | 1st Semester | 3 | 32 h | |
| Nursing Research | 1st Semester | 3 | 32 h | |
| Neuropsychopathology | 1st Semester | 6 | 65 h | |
| Nursing Ethics and Deontology | 1st Semester | 3 | 32 h | |
| Systemic Family Approach / Family Therapy | 2nd Semester | 3 | 32 h | |
| Mental Health Promotion and Prevention | 2nd Semester | 5 | 54 h | |
| Models, methods and techniques of intervention in Mental Health | 2nd Semester | 7 | 75 h | |
| Clinical Teaching of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing | 2nd Semester | 15 | 205 h |
| Code | Curricular Unit | Period | ECTS | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elective I | 1st Semester | 30 |
Conditions of admission
The following may apply for enrollment and enrollment:
- Holders of a degree or equivalent qualification in Nursing;
- Holders of a foreign higher education degree, awarded following a first cycle of nursing studies, organized in accordance with the principles of the Bologna Process by a State adhering to this Process, lasting 240 ECTS;
- Holders of a foreign higher education degree that is recognized as meeting the objectives of the degree of Nursing degree by the ESSLei scientific board; or,
- Holders of a scientific or professional curriculum vitae who see their title /curriculum previously recognized by the ESSLei technical-scientific council.
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International Student
All information related to the international student application should be consulted on our International Students webpage.