Postgraduate Diploma in Health Services Management

Objetivos do Curso

The Regulation for the Professional Practice of Nurses determines, in paragraph 6 of article 9 that “nurses contribute in the exercise of their activity in the area of management, research, teaching, training and advice, for the improvement and evolution of the provision of health care nursing".

In this path, the exercise of management functions by nurses is central to guaranteeing the quality and safety of professional practice, in the context of health organizations. The complexity of health organizations demands that the nurse manager has a body of knowledge, attitudes and behaviors that enable him to overcome the challenges that the management of health institutions represents today, with a view to obtaining

health gains.

Competence certification is based on the assumption of valuing the professional career of nurses, both in terms of professional experience and training processes. In this context, this course aims to respond to one of the requirements

indispensable for the certification of Enhanced Advanced Competence in Management: point 3 of Annex IV (Verification Grid - Descriptors Applicable to the attribution of Enhanced Advanced Competence in Management) of Regulation no. 76/2018, of January 30 -

Regulation of Enhanced Advanced Competence in Management.

Condições de Acesso e Ingresso

Graduates in the field of health and social sciences.

Saídas profissionais

The health professional with the Postgraduated Course in Health Services Management must ensure the necessary skills to understand the problems with which managers deal in the context of professional practice through critical analysis focused on health policy. Allow decision-making at the level of strategic planning, innovation and organizational change in health.

Regime de Estudo

Presencial

Língua(s) de aprendizagem/ Avaliação

Portuguese

Objetivos de Aprendizagem e competências a Desenvolver

Train for the recognition of the exercise of management as an ethical conduct focused on the well-being and safety of people;

Train people to assume a professional practice based on legal norms, ethical principles and Professional Deontology, aimed at taking responsibility for the safety and quality of the work environment;

Develop a body of knowledge and attitudes in the ethical, deontological and legal domains that translates transparency into decision-making processes and conciliatory use of power;

Develop the ability to design, operate, implement and evaluate continuous quality improvement processes, in a multidisciplinary context, aiming at levels of excellence in responding to the needs and expectations of people and professionals;

Empower for leadership styles that enhance professional development, the growth of teams and organizations, based on the framework of values of the profession;

Valuing leadership as a change strategy;

Train for the planning, organization, direction and control of all the interdependent and sequential components of the management process;

Train for advisory and consultancy.

Coordenador do curso

- João Miguel Almeida Ventura da Silva - joao.ventura@essnortecvp.pt

Enquadramento Legal da Qualificação

Decree-Law no. 74/2006, of 24 March, amended and republished by Decree-Law no. 65/2018, of 16 August

Acesso a um nível de Estudos Superior

Not applicable.