Nursing Graduate Program

The stricto sensu graduate, Paulista Nursing School, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, began in 1978. The current Nursing Graduate Program was redesigned in 2008 and offers training in the levels of master's degree, doctoral and post-doctoral. The program has the scope to prepare masters, PhDs, and postdocs able to expand, consolidate and disseminate the science of nursing, promoting transformative practices and disseminating education and research, contributing individually and collectively to social-political, and ethical issues, improving the quality of population health and care.

OUR MISSION: Our objective is to be a center of excellence in the education of researchers, leaders, and qualified professionals to advance the science of Nursing and Health, with emphasis on a multidimensional approach to people and groups in their different expressions.

OUR VALUES: The Graduate Nursing Program has an as basic concept that the human being has privileges and rights that must be respected and that the right to life and health are essential to self-realization. The program realizes that nursing focuses on health care in the individual and collective perspective, by means of a knowledge that integrates the bases: scientific, personal/interpretive, critical, ethical, aesthetic, and sociopolitical. These bases support and guide the knowledge production that contributes to the innovative and transformative professional practice.

OUR AIMS: To graduate masters, doctors, and post-doctors able to: integrate the foundations of knowledge in research, teaching, and extension in Nursing and Health Sciences; using different philosophical and theoretical perspectives and methodologies to building, expanding, consolidating, and disseminating the Nursing and Health Sciences, contributing individually and collectively to improve the care and health of the population; and sharing ideas and integrating projects beyond institutional boundaries.