The Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra (ESEnfC) is a public
nursing school
Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health ca ...
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Coimbra
Coimbra (, also , , or ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2011 census was 143,397, in an area of .
The fourth-largest urban area in Portugal after Lisbon, Porto Metropolitan Area, Porto, and Bra ...
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Portugal
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History
It was created after the 2004 decree law ''Decreto-Lei nº 175/2004 de 21 de Julho'' through the merging of the two previous nursing schools of Coimbra: the ''Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Bissaya Barreto'' and the ''Escola Superior de Enfermagem Dr. Ângelo da Fonseca'' which were providing degrees since the 1990s, but whose origins as technical nursing and health training schools can be dated back to the early 20th century..
See also
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List of colleges and universities in Portugal
This list of universities and colleges in Portugal gives the Portuguese institutions providing higher education. Higher education in Portugal is organized into two systems: university and polytechnic. There are public and private higher education ...
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Higher education in Portugal
Higher education in Portugal is divided into two main subsystems: university and polytechnic education. It is provided in autonomous public and private universities, university institutes, polytechnic institutes and higher education institutions ...
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Education in Coimbra
Since early ages, Coimbra developed into an important cultural centre, firstly due to the school founded in 1131 in the Santa Cruz Monastery, essential on medieval age, medieval times and a meeting point for the intellectual and power elites, where ...
External links
Official site* https://web.archive.org/web/20120525215523/http://www.esenfc.pt/site/
Education in Coimbra
Nursing schools in Portugal
Higher education in Portugal
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