Teacher and researcher in the areas of Medical Surgical Nursing, Palliative Care and Humanisation in Health. Ph.D. in Nursing (2010), her dissertation was entitled: "Experiences of nursing students in coping with death – a contribution to undergraduate training", Master in Ethics and Theology of Health (2000), specialist in Medical Surgical Nursing (1994), nurse (1984).
Member of the Provincial Group on Bioethics – Institute of the Sisters Hospitallers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Member of the Ethics Committee of the Casa de Saúde da Idanha – Institute of the Sisters Hospitallers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Member of the working group of the International Council of Nursing – Revison Code of Ethics, since 2019. Pedagogical Coordinator of the Postgraduate Course in Clinical Supervision of Nursing. International Participations: Lecture and participant in the Interdisciplinary Programme on Palliative and End-of-Life Care (IPPE). Nurse Director of a private health unit – Hospital de S. Louis in Lisbon.
Throughout her professional life, she has sought to articulate the theoretical dimension of nursing for a practice of reasoned care, promoting the transfer of knowledge, with special focus on the areas of palliative care, ethics and deontology and humanisation of care.
