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Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing

FCSE professor becomes the first Portuguese to be named a Fellow of NANDA International

Professor Sílvia Caldeira, a lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing (FCSE), was recently distinguished as a Fellow of NANDA International...
June 12, 2025
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Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing

Nursing PhD student wins best paper at NANDA-I conference

Nursing PhD student Joana Bragança won one of the three prizes for best papers at the NANDA-I conference held at the Portuguese Catholic University from...
June 12, 2025
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Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing

UCP doctoral student awarded the Marjory Gordon Research Scholarship

Nursing doctoral student Cristina Barradas won the Marjory Gordon Research Scholarship, announced at the gala dinner of the NANDA-I 2025 conference, which...
June 12, 2025
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Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing

NANDA-I 2025: Transforming Nursing conference brought together experts from 25 countries at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing

FCSE hosted the NANDA International Conference 2025, organized in collaboration with this international nursing association and Boston College. More than...
June 11, 2025
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Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing

FCSE and Nursing School (Lisbon) lecturer takes part in the 18th National Oncology Nursing Conference

Prof. Helga Martins, a lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing and the School of Nursing (Lisbon), took part in the 18th National Oncology...
June 5, 2025
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Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing

Master's student in Neuropsychology on international mobility in Denmark with a focus on music and the brain

Tomás Peixoto Alves, a Master's student in Neuropsychology, recently took part in a research internship at Aarhus University, in Denmark, under the...
June 3, 2025
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Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing

FCSE and Nursing School professor participates as guest at the 18th National Conference and IV International Conference on Oncology Nursing

Prof. Susana Miguel, a lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing (FCSE) and the School of Nursing (Lisbon) at UCP, was a guest at the 18th...
June 3, 2025
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Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing

UCP professor celebrates the 52nd anniversary of the School of Health of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém with a reflection on interiority, integrality and spirituality in health

Prof. Silvia Caldeira, a lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing and the School of Nursing (Lisbon), took part in the celebration of the...
May 21, 2025
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Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing

Teachers from the Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing and the School of Nursing (Lisbon) mark International Nurses Day

The FCSE and the School of Nursing (Lisbon) were represented in different parts of the country as part of the International Nurses' Day celebrations, with...
May 16, 2025
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Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing

FCSE lecturer at the XI Câmara de Lobos 2025 Education Seminar

The XI Education Seminar in Câmara de Lobos, with the motto “Education: reflections and paths”, was attended by Professor Joana Rato from the Faculty of...
May 14, 2025
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Press

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June 6, 2025
RTP Madeira
Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing

RTP Madeira - FCSE and EEL lecturer interviewed on Guidelines for health professionals in cases of suspected child violence

Concrete regulations need to be created to guide the actions of health professionals in the event of suspected violence against children and young people. The warning comes from Prof. Sérgio Deodato, professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences and...
06/06/2025 - 11:21
RTP Madeira
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May 9, 2025
CMTV
Acontece no FCSE

CMTV - Ongoing research in the Doctorate in Cognition, Language and Neuroscience Sciences in the program Falar Global

Manuela Gabriel's research project, which is being carried out as part of her PhD in Cognition, Language and Neuroscience Sciences, was featured on CMTV's Falar Global program. This project is supervised by Prof. Joana Rato from the Faculty of Health...
09/05/2025 - 12:10
CMTV
Faculty - Sérgio Deodato
April 14, 2025
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Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing

Público: Let's talk about health at election time - Opinion piece

The new opinion article by Prof. Sérgio Deodato, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing of the Portuguese Catholic University and Coordinator of the Ethics4Care research group at the UCP Interdisciplinary Health Research Center...
14/04/2025 - 11:44
Público
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March 14, 2025
Human Resources
BSc Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience

Human Resources: Portugal's first neuroscience degree to be launched

The Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing of the Portuguese Catholic University, in association with the Faculty of Medicine, will launch the first degree in Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience in Portugal in September. This launch is being announced at...
14/03/2025 - 10:26
Human Resources
brain-locked
March 11, 2025
Jornal Económico
BSc Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience

Jornal Económico: Universidade Católica: the country's first neuroscience degree is coming

The undergraduate programme brings together the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine, places the country at the forefront of Neuroscience education and will be taught entirely in English. As part of International Brain Week, which runs until March...
11/03/2025 - 09:56
Jornal Económico
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March 3, 2025
Diário do Alentejo
PhD in Nursing

Diário do Alentejo: Nurse João Vieira gets top marks in doctoral thesis

João Vieira recently completed his PhD in Nursing at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing of the Portuguese Catholic University, with the thesis “Therapeutic futility in adult intensive care nursing”. Find out more about her career in an interview...
03/03/2025 - 22:38
Diário do Alentejo
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February 17, 2025
RTP
PhD in Cognition Sciences, Language and Neuroscience

RTP: Helena Carmo is the first deaf PhD student at Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Helena Carmo made history by becoming the first deaf person to obtain a doctorate at UCP. You can watch it here in the first part of the Fé dos Homens program at minute 10:14.
17/02/2025 - 14:42
RTP
SIC-OPCP
January 20, 2025
SIC Notícias
Portuguese Palliative Care Observatory

Palliative care: although there are more trained professionals, the number of teams is not enough

The Portuguese Palliative Care Observatory (OPCP) of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing of the Portuguese Catholic University has just released the Training and Care Activity sections of its 2023 report, offering a detailed overview of the...
20/01/2025 - 10:26
SIC Notícias
Notícia Professora Joana Rato PG MCE
December 23, 2024
Dinheiro Vivo
Pós-Graduação em Mente, Cérebro e Educação

Coordenadora da Escola de Pós-Graduação e Formação Avançada da FCSE participou no programa Educar + da TSF/Iniciativa Educação

A Prof. Doutora Joana Rato, coordenadora da Escola de Pós-Graduação e Formação Avançada e a Professora de 1º Ciclo Beatriz Soeiro, que concluiu a Pós-Graduação em Mente, Cérebro e Educação, participaram no último episódio do Educar +, projeto da...
23/12/2024 - 14:04
Dinheiro Vivo
Revista Sábado Professora Maria Vânia Nunes
September 23, 2024
Sábado
Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde e Enfermagem

Docente da FCSE entre especialistas contactados para artigo de capa da revista Sábado sobre envelhecimento e saúde cerebral

A importância da saúde cerebral é hoje reconhecida pela Organização Mundial como crucial para que se possa promover a saúde das pessoas e populações. Muitos aspetos podem contribuir para a sua optimização, com impactos importantes ao nível da prevenção...
23/09/2024 - 10:46
Sábado
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Events

Doutoramento
16
Jun
11:00

Provas de Registo Definitivo de Projeto de Tese

Catholic University of Portugal

Portugal
Doutoramento
16
Jun
11:00

Thesis Project Final Registration

Catholic University of Portugal

Portugal
Doutoramento
17
Jun
16:30

Provas de Registo Definitivo de Projeto de Tese

Catholic University of Portugal

Portugal
Doutoramento
17
Jun
16:30

Thesis Project Final Registration

Catholic University of Portugal

Portugal
Doutoramento
18
Jun
12:00

Thesis Project Final Registration

Catholic University of Portugal

Portugal
flivro-sd
19
Jun
18:00

Book signing | Book Fair

Feira do Livro de Lisboa

Portugal
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23
Jun
10:00

3rd Summer Academy of Spirituality and Health

Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Portugal
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07
Jul
09:00

FCSE hosts 9th EONS 2025 Research Proposal Workshop - Opportunity for experienced oncology nurses

Catholic University of Portugal

Portugal
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24
Oct
09:00

NICE_Start - 1st International Meeting of Young Researchers in Cognition, Language and Neurosciences

Catholic University of Portugal

Portugal

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