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Postgraduation Program Presentation

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Our Mission

PPGENF purpose is to promote the continuing nurses education in order to produce knowledge in the nursing health context through an ethical, critical, reflexive and transformative attitude, with reference to the health-disease process and its determinants, contributing to the population conditions improvement.

Program Guidelines

Developing a comprehensive vision and critical attitude towards health issues, nursing and education in the Brazilian and international reality; deepening knowledge in specific Nursing areas in order to contribute to the profession’s development as a complete process and to develop research ability, what is considered essential for Nurses, professors, and researchers.

Program’s Principles:

Integration between higher education levels: undergraduate and graduate nursing;
Inseparability among teaching, research, extension and assistance, with a scientific investigation as an integrating axis;
Knowledge’s production in the nursing field aiming life protection and improvement;
Valuing and exercising ethical norms, a humanist posture, and citizenship; contextualized and plural academic reflection about the Nurse insertion in the labor market, based on the critical and social on Brazilian population conditions point of view;
Interdisciplinary epistemological construction to ensure theoretical and methodological plurality.

Goals

Facing the contemporary challenges in education at all levels and spheres, as a decisive issue for any country’s future, the PPGENF assumes a strategic role in building a country aligned with equality, justice, and fraternity ideals. Therefore, its mission will meet the UNIRIO’s Mission as it seeks to promote the continuing nurse’s education to produce knowledge in the nursing and health knowledge context. This has to be made through an ethical, critical, reflective, and transformative posture concerning health-disease process with its conditions and determinants, contributing to the improvement of the population's living conditions.

Being aware of the changes arising from the new public management that have been taking place over the past few years, PPGENF seeks to implement a modernization process and innovation, which strengthens its institutional position, considering its significant social relevance in the State of Rio de Janeiro. Therefore, the Program’s purpose is to deepen knowledge in specific Nursing areas which contribute to the professional development as unite, and also the research and innovation capacity development, which are considered essential for the performance of clinical nurses, professors, and researchers. In this way, the Program has been seeking to create opportunities for the improvement and development of a formulating and proactive posture, starting from the reality with the presentation of innovative propositions (strategies, methods, models, techniques, practices and processes in research, caring and teaching) useful to the Brazilian society.

The Program aims to provide academic training for teaching and skills for research development, from a comprehensive and critical nursing, health, and education/teaching issues view, from the national and international reality perspective. In addition to deepening knowledge in specific Nursing areas that contribute to the profession complete development, it is also important to develop research capacity, which is considered essential for the role of nurses in the caring field, teaching, and scientific research.

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