Professional Master Degree in Mother and Child Health

Program Overview/Objective
The Professional Master’s Degree in Maternal and Child Health, of the Franciscan University, aims to enable professionals of health and from related areas to build a new model towards the health of women, children, and family; a model that guarantees access, attention and effectiveness by means of good organization practices, management and integral attention to health.

General Information
Duration: 2 years
Score: 4 (According to the Ministry of Education’s quadrennial evaluation)
Degreeoffered: Professional Master’s Degree in Maternal and Child Health


Master Degree in Mother and Child Health
1.1 Level: Professional Master Degree
1.2 Area: Nursing (20)
1.3 Subarea: Obstetric Nursing
1.4 Concentration Area: Mother and Child Health
1.5 Selection Period: Annual
1.6 Number of annual vacancies: 20
1.7 Recommended: CAPES on 3/26/2015 - Report CNE/CES 46/2016

Who should apply?

Professionals from Physical Education, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Phonoaudiology, Medicine, Nutrition, Dentistry, Psychology, Social Service, Occupation Therapy and related areas.

Concentration Area: Mother and Child Health

Description: Given the need to transcend the biologicist and medicalizing model of care during pregnancy, delivery and the puerperium period and the need to transform practices in health services, the objective is to qualify professionals of Nursing and other health professionals for the development and implementation of knowledge, technologies, and practices for a comprehensive mother and child health care. The course seeks to foster the implementation of emancipatory practices that ensure the role of women in the pregnancy-puerperal period and a more humanized care for women, newborns and children up to 24 months of age, from the perspective of systemic relationships and interactions. We also value the promotion of the production and implementation of technologies (processes and products) applicable to the multiprofessional workspace, in order to ensure good practices and the consolidation of the comprehensive care network for mother, newborn and child health.

Lines of research

Integral Care for Maternal, Newborn and Childhealth

This line of research approaches topics related to knowledge production, technologies and practices that contribute toamplify and qualify the attention to gestation, childbirth, puerperium, birthand child development until the completion of 24 months of life. Such line also proposes the development of educational, proactive, and emancipatory actions through new intervention approaches and technologies that incorporate comprehensive nesstowards women’s health care and their protagonism throughout childbirth and puerperium time periods. This line of research also seeks to amplify and qualify nursing and health practices that promote integral care for maternal, newborn and child health in which sensitive attention is the main focus, associated to the biological, social, emotional, economic and cultural needs.

Faculty

Bianca Zimmermann dos Santos
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Franceliane Jobim Benedetti
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Josiane Lieberknecht Wathier Abaid
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Leris Salete Bonfanti Haeffner
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Patricia Pasquali Dotto
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Regina Gemma Santini Costenaro
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Silvana Cruz da Silva
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Luiz Fernando Rodrigues Junior
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Organization and Management of Maternal andChild Health Care Network

This line of research approaches knowledge production, technologies and practices that contribute to the structuration, organization, qualification and consolidation of integral attention network tomaternal and child health care, in terms of guaranteeing access with acceptanceand effectiveness, in accordance to national and international policies and programs. This line of research develops new assistant models and political management processes through intersectional and interdisciplinary pathways, focusing on organizational interconnections of the Health System. The research also foments entrepreneurial actions within Nursing and Health towards transcending a fragmented and linear vision of the Organization and Management of Maternal and Child Health Care Network.

Faculty

Adriana Pereira Dall'asta
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Carla Lizandra de Lima Ferreira
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Claudia Zamberlan
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Cristina Saling Kruel
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Dirce Stein Backes
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Keity Lais Siepmann Soccol
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Luciane Najar Smeha
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Mara Regina Caino Teixeira Marchiori
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Disciplines

Mandatory Disciplines

Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
Integrated Seminar
Bioethics and Citizenship
Policies and Management of Maternal and Child Health Network
Innovative Technologies and Entrepreneurship in Nursing and Health
Oriented Practice
Paper Writing I
Paper Writing II

Optional Disciplines

Pregnant Women’s and Nursing Mother’s and Physiological and Nutritional Aspects
Psychological Aspects of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Puerperium
Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Child birth and development
Education in Health
Obstetric Nursing
Family in Contemporary Age
Gender, Sexual Orientation and Race
Scientific Method
Clinical Practice in Nursingand Health based on evidences
Vigilance, Risk Preventionand Grievance to Maternal and Child Health
Puerperal Pregnancy Cycleand the Beginning of Life
Integral Care to Child inEarly Childhood