The Nursing School St. Joseph of Cluny was founded in 1940 by Mother Pedro Tavares, Nurse Hospital Pasteur of Paris, at the request of a group of Madeira, with good intellectual training, moral and social. Initially, the course had a duration of one year.
On 13 October 1948, the ESESJC is recognized by the Order of the State Social Welfare Secretary. It was legalized under the Regulation of Nursing Schools, approved on 28 August 1952. This institution was endowed with pedagogical and technical autonomy, since its origin, and its direction and teaching of responsibility to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, with the collaboration of nurses and other health technicians.
With the integration of Nursing Education at the Polytechnic Higher Education, the school was renamed the Nursing School of St. Joseph of Cluny. Currently, it has a legal personality and enjoys scientific, pedagogic, cultural, disciplinary, administrative, and financial, with respect for the basic principles and rules of the National System of Higher Education contained in the Act.
It is an institution whose mission is to train professionals to such a high responsibility as being a nurse. Gives priority to human formation together with the scientific and technical and has stated, first, the learning opportunities and rigor printed the same, towards the development of skills related to the nursing profession and who, we are sure, are bearing its graduates. As a training institution adept people to take care of people, has dedicated special attention to socio-cultural changes in general and the amendment of the reference models, whether the nursing profession or teaching, valuing a close relationship and less formal teacher/student, but without devaluing the values of discipline and respect for the social roles of teachers, students or employees.
The progressive introduction of active methods of teaching and learning, in which students take on the role of subjects and agents of their learning, was an important milestone with the adaptation of the Plan of Nursing Degree Course studies the philosophy of the Bologna Process, corresponding to 240 acts. Simultaneously it has adopted the Nursing College of St. Joseph of Cluny an exemplary laboratory - for the development of technical expertise - and another new technology, promoter of the development of research skills and access to the latest scientific evidence, recognized by teachers and students as a great asset. Through the school site,
All this philosophy and allocation of resources has increased momentum in translated academic life, and scientific aspects, promotion of conferences, seminars, workshops, study visits, and clinical placements outside the region, with the most inherent strengths. The Student Association, the Tuna, participation in solidarity or health promotion campaigns, and other events, have contributed to the human development and citizenship of our students.
The Nursing School of St. Joseph of Cluny, the quality of their education and training, has managed to achieve over the years the social recognition and prestige that much honor and dignify. Recognizes the excellence of nurses who passed through and consequently the Nursing and Health Regional, National, and International. They are proof of the feedback obtained from the employers of its graduates at regional, national, and international levels and other higher education institutions that receive our former students in post-graduate courses as well as the results of external evaluations carried out by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
From its foundation to the present time, the Nursing College of St. Joseph of Cluny has trained over 3000 professionals in Nursing. The first five decades were devoted to the teaching of basic training, and the years diversified its training offer by conducting specialization courses and graduate programs, seeking to match the population of nursing care needs.
It is the commitment of the entire Academic Community - management bodies, teachers, administrative, assistants, and students - that the institution born remains high and continues its evolution long time.
It is with the past and the present that the future is built. The Nursing School of St. Joseph of Cluny, founded on the values that have led states to the society it serves, will continue to make every effort so that, as part of its sphere of action, the nursing care rendered to the population of RAM correspond to your expectations and needs as well as the quality standards recommended by the Order of Nurses.
