The Post Graduate Program in Nursing of the Federal University of Santa Catarina: 40 Years Contributing to the Excellence in Education

Abstract

The year of 2016 is special for the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem (PEn) of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). By completing 40 years of a successful career, the PEn/UFSC has the joy of sharing with the public their accomplishments. Here, we include the recognition of excellence at the international level by obtaining the concept 6 in the evaluation made by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes) in 2010 and consolidated in 2013. The PEn/UFSC was created in 1976 with the Master's Program and later on, in the year of 1993 the doctoral program was built. Both of the programs are focused in qualifying nurses and others healthcare professionals with a university degree, who are interested in acting within the field of health. Throughout this time, the program has confirmed its amplitude with expressive integration in a regional, national and international level. In May of the current year, the program, has graduated 680 master's professionals, 292 doctors and 48 post-doctors from Brazil and other countries. Fact that contributes expressively with the academic training of health professionals, but mainly with nurses. This program has an outstanding performance in promoting certification of masters and doctors through the participation in interinstitutional courses driven initially by the Network for the Promotion of PostGraduate Programs in the Southern Region since 1990. The program has collaborated with the

Grounded Theory: Use in Scientific Articles Published in Brazilian Nursing Journals With Qualis a Classification

“…The largest number of articles was published in the TCE Journal, founded in 1992 by the UFSC Nursing Graduate Program, and since then it has become a relevant means of disseminating technical and scientific production in the health area, especially regarding nursing. 24 Regarding the year of publication, there was an increase in the number of publications from 2013 to 2015, confirming the increase in the use of GT as a research method in Brazilian Nursing from 2008. 5 The concentration of studies published by authors from UFSC confirms the findings of an integrative review on the use of GT in nursing in Brazil.…”

Methodological Approach in Nursing Research for Constructing and Validating Protocols

“…These programs significantly contribute to academic training of health professionals, especially nurses, and to advances in research. [39][40] From the data collected by the present study, it was possible to identify theses and dissertations carried out in the Nursing area between 2002 and 2014 that constructed and/or validated protocols. We found a greater incidence of this topic starting from 2012, which reflects an increasing use of this methodology in nursing research and demonstrates acceptance and recognition of the importance of this approach.…”

Brazil-Chile International Master's Program in Nursing: An Unprecedented Collaboration

“…It is stimulating to notice that the development of Post-Graduate studies in southern Brazil is overtly due to the efforts of PEN/UFSC. 3 With regard to its international solidarity, PEN/UFSC has already awarded 40 master degrees, 16 doctoral degrees, and eight post-doctoral degrees to foreign students since its creation in 1976, i.e., 64 foreign professionals have received an academic degree from PEN/UFSC so far. The commitment to the training of MSs and PhDs in Nursing, together with the desire of the UMAG to collaborate, allowed for the implementation of the Interinstitutional International Master's Program: MINTER/UFSC/ UMAG, whose dissertations comprised, among other works, the articles published in this special issue of Text & Context Nursing.…”