At the Nursing School of the Instituto de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Católica do Porto, teachers and students are committed to helping the community within their field of action. First of all, because almost all Masters and PhD students maintain their work in health institutions and school activity plans have been adapted to this situation so that they can continue their studies.

The teachers who specialize in Community Health Nursing have made themselves available to collaborate with the SNS24 line, and contribute to other platforms, such as the group "Covid-19 - Information given by health professionals", which is an information space for thousands of people, or in the elaboration of guiding documents, such as the guide to the Family Contingency Plan for the Covid-19 Pandemic.

The Catholic Nursing Center (CEC) - a community service unit where teachers and students develop various projects - has been particularly attentive to its regular partners. In this context, training has already been provided to the staff of the Home Support Service (SAD) who support elderly people, for the prevention of contagion and appropriate use of PPE in the Social Center of Senhora da Conceição Parish. This type of collaboration is open to all parishes in the city that request it by email cec@porto.ucp.pt.

Still in the scope of the activity of the CEC, began this week the collaboration of some teachers with a Grouping of Health Centers of the city of Porto in the training of Structures Residences for Elderly People, in the prevention COVID-19 and surveillance of infected people, after screening and in direct collaboration with the Public Health Unit of the area.

Particular attention is being given to people in social isolation. The students of the 1st year of the degree in Nursing, who were doing clinical teaching in Residential Structures for Elderly People, voluntarily maintain telephone contact with some people with whom they had already started the activity and the students of the 4th year are preparing to give continuity to the community intervention with families with patients in charge referred by the Diocesan Caritas, or elderly people and isolation and greater vulnerability signalled by the Health Centres and other partner entities of the CEC.

The current context of the Covid-19 pandemic has allowed the School of Nursing to develop skills in students specifically addressed to crisis and disaster situations, either in deepening the ethical and deontological issues that emerge in these situations, or in the global health perspective that affects humanity as a whole, or in developing strategies for surveillance and control of local communities.

April 2020

Professor Sílvia Caldeira, professor at the Instituto de Ciências da Saúde (Lisbon), was invited to join the editorial board of Acta Paulista de Enfermagem as associate editor.

This is a journal of the Escola Paulista of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Qualis 2, with impact factor, and indexed to the most prestigious databases.

Considering the postponement of the FCCN Days, where a session dedicated to RCAAP (Scientific Repositories of Open Access of Portugal) usually takes place, the project coordination team decided to hold an online meeting, open to the whole community, on May 6th between 10h30 and 12h00.

This meeting has two objectives. On the one hand, to meet and maintain the annual meetings with the RCAAP community, making known the activities and developments of the project. On the other hand, given the current pandemic situation COVID-19, to identify and discuss the challenges and opportunities that this situation presents for Open Science in general, and for the RCAAP community in particular.

The program planned for the meeting is composed of two moments:

Part 1 (30 m): RCAAP highlights (Institutional Repositories, Scientific Journals and Research Data Management);

Part 2 (60 m): Panel of Invited Guests for debate on Open Science in the context of Covid-19.

The session will be free of charge but registration is mandatory.

The restructuring of the Curricular Programme of the Masters in Portuguese Sign Language and Education of the Deaf, of the Instituto de Ciências da Saúde (Lisbon), in a b-learning regime was approved by the A3ES, with emphasis on the quality of the academic and scientific work developed in the course and the academic and specialisation quality of the teaching staff.

More information about the Masters in Portuguese Sign Language and Education of the Deaf is available here.

Taking into account UCP's phased reactivation plan, its Libraries will extend the offer of services made available in person as of June 15. You can consult the specific information regarding each Library, as well as the contacts through which you can proceed with your appointments.

We remind you that the access and/or permanence in the spaces of the Libraries requires the use of masks and regular hand sanitizing measures, rules that must be complemented with a physical distance appropriate to each context. Also in the scope of the security measures adopted, we inform you that a maximum number of places available in each Library has been defined, and all works consulted and returned are subject to a 48-hour quarantine period.

Lisbon Library

All services require prior appointment via email:

Face-to-face consultation of works (9:30 to 17:30);
Home loan;
Digitization of information resources;
E-mail: emprestimo.biblioteca.lisboa@ucp.pt 

Telephone: (+351) 214 269 772 or 214 269 773

Porto Library

All services require prior appointment via email:

Face-to-face consultation of works (9:00 to 13:00 and 15:00 to 19:00);
Home loan;
Digitization of information resources;
E-mail: biblioteca@porto.ucp.pt

Telephone: (+351) 226 196 241

More information.

Braga Libraries

All services require prior appointment via email:

Face-to-face consultation of works (9:00 to 13:00 and 14:00 to 17:00);
Home loan;
E-mail: biblioteca.ffcs@braga.ucp.pt (Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences)

E-mail: biblioteca.facteo@braga.ucp.pt (Faculty of Theology)

Telephone: (+351) 253 206 100

Viseu Library

Face-to-face consultation of works (8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.);
Home loan;
E-mail: bjps@viseu.ucp.pt   

Telephone: (+351) 232 419 500 or 232 419 520

It is also informed that the remaining support services to the academic community that have been provided, namely through telephone and online platforms, will continue to be provided through these channels.

The former student of the Master in Palliative Care at Instituto de Ciências da Saúde (ICS) in Lisbon, of Universidade Católica Portuguesa(UCP), and research assistant at the Portuguese Observatory of Palliative Care, Rita Ferreira, received the award for best free communication in poster format, in co-authorship with Prof. Manuel Luis Capelas, in the thematic area of research at the 37th National Meeting of General Practice and Family Medicine held from September 21 to October 1, 2020.

This free communication in poster format has as its theme "Factors associated with the preference of death in the home" and is part of a project of the Portuguese Observatory of Palliative Care.

PhD student Susana Miguel, researcher at the Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Saúde (CIIS), supervised by Prof. Dr. Sílvia Caldeira, was awarded the NANDA-I Foundation prize, as support to her PhD project "Diagnóstico de enfermagem 'disturbed body image' e 'situational low self-esteem' em pessoas com cancro de cabeça e pescoço: validação diferencial com recurso à metodologia Q".

It is an award from the NANDA-I Foundation in partnership with the Marjory Gordon program, of Boston College, William F Connell School of Nursing, Boston.

In 2016, PhD student Joana Romeiro, a researcher at CIIS, supervised by Prof. Dr. Sílvia Caldeira, received this award to support the development of her project "Diagnósticos de enfermagem resiliência comprometida e angústia espiritual em pessoas em tratamento de fertilidade: estudo de validação clínica".

The Escola de Enfermagem (Lisbon) of the Instituto de Ciencias da Saúde and the Facultad de Enfermería of the Universidad de Navarra (Spain) organized the Webinar "Direitos e Deveres do Enfermeiro em situação de Pandemia" ("Rights and Duties of nurses in a pandemic situation") on June 29.

This webinar, which promoted the discussion on the rights and duties of nurses as health professionals directly involved in the fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic, was attended by over 200 people, mostly Portuguese and Spanish nurses.

The topics were addressed by the directors of the two academic units, Prof. Sérgio Deodato and Prof. Mercedes Perez, both researchers of nursing deontology.

At the invitation of the Coordinator of the Post-Graduate Nursing Program of the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (SP, Brazil), Professor Priscilla Hortense, and Professor Anamaria Alves Napoleão, Professor Sílvia Caldeira integrated the discipline "Perspectives for teaching and research in SAE and nursing process" and Professor Zaida Charepe integrated the discipline "Attention to Family Health" for nurses, Master and PhD students, and nurses of hospital and primary health care services.

The recently published article "Forgiveness facilitation in palliative care: a scoping review" was highlighted by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI). This study, by master nurse Rita Santos Silva, was guided by Professor Sílvia Caldeira and integrated the Spirit in Health project of the Nursing Research Platform (Lisbon) of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Health.

In this study the positive effects of end-of-life forgiveness are highlighted and new paths and opportunities for future studies are suggested with the objective of developing and testing this nursing intervention in palliative care people and their families.

More information here: https://jbi.global/news/article?id=2391 

Two professors and researchers and a PhD student from the Lisbon School of Nursing of Instituto de Ciências da Saúde (ICS) of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) were invited to participate in a collective work published in Brazil.

Sérgio Deodato, from the area of Ethics in Nursing, and Zaida Charepe (together with the doctoral student Matilde Carvalho), from the area of Hope in Nursing, published two studies in "PROENF. Maternal and Neonatal Health" (Cycle 11; Volume 3).

The chapters, "Ethical Aspects in Early Life" and "Promoting Hope in Parents of Children with Special Needs in Health", result from the knowledge produced under the IARC research projects "Ethics4Care" and "Hope2Care", coordinated, respectively by these researchers. 

Learn more here.

Professor Ana Mineiro, from the Instituto de Ciências da Saúde (Lisbon), will be present at the I International Congress on Teaching Portuguese as a Second Language for the Deaf as Keynote Speaker.

Under the theme "The Portuguese curriculum for the deaf in Portugal: an analysis from the Common European Framework of Reference for language teaching", the session will take place today at 8.30 p.m. (Portuguese time) and will be transmitted online to Brazil.

Watch the session here.

Professor Sílvia Caldeira, a lecturer at the Institute of Health Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University, was invited by the Executive Board of the Austrian Science Fund to evaluate research projects submitted for funding.

Currently, Professor Silvia Caldeira is the coordinator of the PhD in nursing - Lisbon class and an integrated researcher of the interdisciplinary health research center. 

João Paulo II University Library invites its users to participate in a study that is being carried out by a collaborator from the D. José Pedro da Silva Library (Viseu Regional Centre), by completing a short questionnaire.

This research is part of a Master's degree research thesis in Management, from Universidade Católica Portuguesa – (Viseu Regional Centre). This thesis project aims to collect data to study "The Importance of Communication and Relationship Marketing in Higher Education Libraries: the Case of UCP Libraries".

Completing this questionnaire should not take more than 10 minutes and we would like to thank you for your cooperation.

Link to the questionnaire

The Escola de Enfermagem (Lisbon) of the Instituto de Ciências da Saúde and the University Library João Paulo II (BUJPII) mark the International Nurses' Day, which is celebrated on May 12, with a temporary exhibition entitled: "Nursing Care: History and Innovation".

The pieces were carefully selected from the collection of the of the Escola de Enfermagem de Lisboa.

The museological collection gathered here allows, through its study and dissemination, to recover past memories that establish affective relationships that enhance a present and future open to innovation and knowledge, within the framework of the values and mission of the Universidade Católica.

We invite the entire academic community to visit the entrance hall of BUJPII, on the 3rd floor as of May 12!

With "The child under the eyes of Eduardo Teixeira Pinto" as theme, the D. José Pedro da Silva Library promotes another initiative to publicize the estate of Eduardo Teixeira Pinto, hosting, from July 1st, a new exhibition of 27 photographs, in black and white, awarded nationally and internationally, alluding to the 50s, 60s and 70s.

It will run until October 31 and can be visited, from Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm and from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, respecting a maximum capacity of 15 people, simultaneously, and complying with the rules of protection and safety defined by the Directorate-General for Health and the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

According to the 2021 data from InfoCursos, the Undergraduate Degree in Nursing taught at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa achieved an employability rate of 99.8%.

Students are accompanied throughout the final year of the course by the Employability Office, which articulates with employers, namely with public, private and social sector health institutions, partners of the Instituto de Ciências da Saúde (Lisbon).

The preparation for professional life, based on a practical component that begins in the 1st year, and on ongoing support from the faculty, both at the University and in Clinical Training, allows students to take advantage of numerous options in the health system with regard to their first job.

The UCP Libraries network will carry out a training cycle focused on its resources and services offered, denominated "Information and research resources".

During this cycle, which will run from October 11th to October 15th, the various relevant information resources available to the UCP community will be presented, such as Bibliographic Catalog/EDS, b-on, Scopus and Web of Science. Some basic search techniques on these platforms will also be shared.

This training cycle will be open to all interested parties, with no prior registration or limit of participants, just access it through the Microsoft Teams links created for each session, available on the UCP events page or on the UCP Libraries Training Portal.

The Portuguese version of each session will be at 10 am and, if participants are interested, the English version will take place at 6 pm on the same day.

Sessions plan

For more information, see the UCP Libraries Training Portal.

You can also get in touch with the UCP Libraries training team through the email address: formacao.bibliotecas@ucp.pt