Areas of Concentration and Lines of Research
Area of Concentration: Philosophy and Care in Health and Nursing
Description: the scientific, theoretical and philosophical bases of nursing, health and related areas for multidimensional care. Policies, models, technologies and innovations for care in the human living process.
Lines of Research
1. Models and Technologies for Care in Health and Nursing
Theoretical, philosophical, political, social, cultural, educational and methodological conceptions for technological innovation, art and creativity underlying care practices in health and nursing. Computing and information in health and nursing. Application, adaptation and development of models for care in health and nursing. Patient safety and the culture of safety.
Faculty
Grace T. Marcon Dal Sasso
Francis Solange Vieira Tourinho
Maria de Lourdes de Souza
Patricia Kuerten Rocha
Sayonara de Fátima Faria Barbosa
2. Policies, Management and Assessment of Nursing and Health Care
Theoretical, philosophical, political, social, cultural, educational and methodological conceptions of the administration/management/evaluation of health and nursing. Health and nursing policies. Health care organizational systems and the new paradigms of science. Assessment of Health Services.
Faculty
Alacoque Lorenzini Erdmann
Ana Lucia Schaefer Ferreira de Mello
Betina Horner Schlindwein Meirelles
Jose Luis Guedes dos Santos
Selma Regina de Andrade
3. Health Promotion in the Human Living Process and Nursing
Theoretical, philosophical, political, social, cultural, educational, historical and methodological conceptions which form the basis for the promotion of health in the process of living of individuals, families and communities, at the level of primary healthcare. Health education and socio-cultural practices in nursing and health care. Health promotion and the human living process in the perspective of daily life, of postmodernity, of the imaginary and of socio-anthropology.
Faculty
Angela Maria Alvarez
Ivonete Teresinha Schulter Buss Heidemann
Rosane Gonçalves Nitschke
4. Nursing and Health Care in Acute and Chronic Health Conditions
Theoretical, philosophical, political, social, cultural, educational, methodological and historical conceptions which form the basis for care in acute and chronic health conditions in the process of living, falling ill and dying. Care for individuals, families, groups and community, in the various singularities of the health-illness process and in the different ambits of evidence-based practice.
Faculty
Betina Horner Schlindwein Meirelles
Denise Maria Guerreiro Vieira da Silva
Eliane Regina Pereira do Nascimento
Karina Silveira de Almeida Hammerschmidt
Katia Cilene Godinho Bertoncello
Maria Elena Echevarria Guanilo
Silvia Maria Azevedo dos Santos
Soraia Dornelles Schoeller
5. Nursing Care for Women’s and Newborn Health
Theoretical, philosophical, political, social, cultural, educational and methodological conceptions which form the basis for care in women’s and newborn health. Women’s health in all life stages. The process of birth. Human reproduction. Newborn health. Family and social network in human reproduction and in the birth process.
Faculty
Evangelia Kotzias Atherino dos Santos
Marli Terezinha Stein Backes
Odaléa Maria Brugmann
Roberta Costa
Area of Concentration: Education and Work in Health and Nursing
Description: Knowledge of nursing, health, and related areas, directed towards the transformations of professional training and of the production, organization and management of work towards scientific, technological, political and innovation advances in health and nursing education and work.
Lines of Research
1. History of Health and Nursing Education and Work
Political, philosophical and historical conceptions of nursing and health. Retrospective and perspectives on the construction of the nursing and health professions, practices and organizations in the political, cultural, educational and social scenario.
Faculty
Maria Itayra Coelho de Souza Padilha
2. Work in Health and Nursing
Epistemology and challenges posed by the education and work relationship. Theoretical conceptions of the process of work. Political and technological transformations of work in the context of health and nursing. Organization and relationships of work. Work and subjectivity.
Faculty
Denise Elvira Pires Pires
Dulcinéia Ghizoni Schneider
Flávia Regina Souza Ramos
Francine Lima Gelbcke
Mara Ambrosina de Oliveira Vargas
3. Technologies and Management in Education, Health and Nursing
Emerging technologies in education, research, learning and management in health and in the nursing practice. Computing and information in health and nursing education and work. Tele-education in health and nursing. Management and Assessment in education, health and nursing.
Faculty
Alacoque Lorenzini Erdmann
Grace Dal Sasso
Jussara Gue Martini
Marta Lenise do Prado
4. Teacher training and development in health and nursing
Pedagogical theories and conceptions in health and nursing. Theoretical-conceptual bases of initial and ongoing teacher training. Public policies on education and teacher development. Assessment in teaching.
Faculty
Jussara Gue Martini
Marta Lenise do Prado
Vania Marli Schubert Backes
5. Professional training and development in health and nursing
Curriculum and the teaching-learning process at the technical, undergraduate and graduate levels in health and nursing. Continuing training of health and nursing professionals. Public policies on education and work.
Faculty
Jussara Gue Martini
Marta Lenise do Prado
Silvana Silveira Kempfer
Vania Marli Schubert Backes
