Welcome to the Nursing School of Coimbra (ESEnfC)!
Dear student,
The Pedagogical Board is very happy that you have chosen this School, which is heir to the most ancient nursing education in Portugal.
This is also your School now!
In this new stage of your life, please know that the Pedagogical Board and the whole Education Community will do everything at our reach for you to have a dynamic and enriching academic journey that will provide you with a solid basis for your lifelong learning.
The scientific and humanistic dimensions of the Bachelor’s degree will contribute to your professional, personal, and social development. In this first cycle of studies, you will have to make a major investment and effort to succeed and be recognized in professional practice as a nurse.
This School is a public institution of national and international reference in the training of nurses and citizens within an education community that is committed to research, knowledge dissemination, and community outreach services. Here, education is based on a humanistic, scientific and cultural training of socially recognized professionals.
From a pedagogical perspective, thanks to their differentiated qualifications, the School’s faculty and staff are very efficient in their work. Their outstanding performance facilitates the school life and contributes to a successful teaching/learning process. The School also provides students with high-quality facilities, material resources, and equipment.
Throughout the whole study program and during your stay at the School, you can participate in the multiple social bodies of the School, as well as in national and international projects that will help you develop your professional identity and enhance your entrepreneurial spirit. The commitment to a democratic experience at the School, your future, and your colleagues’ future is a guarantee of the development of the Nursing science and of a better quality of life in the future.
The School is built with all of us!
Pedagogical Board Office - Campus B
Extension:1136
email: cpedagogico@esenfc.pt
Note: This guide has information that is useful and important for your integration.
The Nursing School of Higher Education Dr. Ângelo da Fonseca was founded in 1881. Private at that time and known as “Coimbra Nurses School”, it started to function on 17th October of that year. In May 1919 it was converted into an Official School, changing its denomination to Nursing School of the University of Coimbra Hospitals. On 8th January 1931 it became known as the Nursing School Dr. Ângelo da Fonseca by Ministerial Order 7001, 8th January 1931. On 19th July 1982 its denomination changed to “Post-Elementary Nursing School Dr. Ângelo da Fonseca” by Governmental Decree No. 28/87, 31st July. As a consequence of the integration of nursing instruction into Higher Education, this institution adopted the nomenclature Nursing School [of H.E.] Dr. Ângelo da Fonseca by Ministerial Order No. 821/89, 15th September (Portuguese Official Journal, I Series B, 10th January, Normative Order No. 3/2004).
The Nursing School of Higher Education Bissaya Barreto (ESEBB), up until then known as Nursing School Bissaya Barreto, was established by Ministerial Order No. 231/71, 3rd May, as an official service of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, endowed with technical and administrative autonomy. The conversion of the School into Nursing School was established by Ministerial Order No. 821/89, 15th September.
The insignia is composed of a shield and a crown. The two lamps, with merging flames, symbolize two schools which become a single one. The open book with the white heart symbolizes the nursing activity: science and profession. The colour purple, the colour of the city of Coimbra, represents, in its deep meaning, knowledge, wisdom, humanity, the sense of citizenship and ethics inherent to education, research and practice of nursing care.
The stamp is circular and it includes the shield, encircled by a fillet containing the name of the School in capital letters: «ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE ENFERMAGEM DE COIMBRA» (Nursing School of Coimbra).
The symbol invokes the coat of arms of the Nursing School of Coimbra, interpreting the iconic elements formulated by the definition contemplated by its heraldry. Here, the brand also confirms the joining together of the two institutions of nursing training and science which resulted in the ESEnfC and are, nowadays, in the city of Coimbra, with a single identity and cause - the condition COIMBRA NURSING. The geometry of the circle gives us the impression of the formal structure of the sun (light, path). It is in this support that the letter «e» (enfermagem-nursing) is drawn and compromised. The stylization of the silhouette of the two golden lamps makes both flames merge as a single one and, in this way, announces the joining together of the two arms of a same dynamic body. These arms cross in a movement of translation, where a hand takes care of the patient and the other gives back the health.
This integration process is intended for new students starting their academic life at the ESEnfC. It is our aim to welcome students coming to the School for the first time and provide them, from the beginning, with an easier integration into Higher Education and help them participate in a School where the pedagogical, scientific, civic, and cultural spheres, among others, interact on a daily basis, in a healthy relationship environment that favours their development and maturity.
The gala is organised at the end of the school year. Students and members of the teaching staff are nominated for different types of categories, such as the Coolest teacher, Seal award or night man. The gala is the equivalent to the ESEnfC's Oscar night!
The graduation and swearing-in ceremony of the ESEnfC’s newly graduates will take place at the end of the school year in a very emotional farewell event.
