Nurse from the Imaculada Conceição School of Nursing (1989) and specialist in Paediatric and Child Health Nursing (1998), from the same institution, Master in Nursing Sciences, from the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of Abel Salazar (2005) and PhD in Nursing, from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2015).

Worked at the Hospital de São João (Porto), in Intensive Care and Operating Room Units, between 1990 and 1993.

Taught at the Imaculada Conceição Nursing School since 1993 and is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Health Sciences of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and coordinates the Master's program in Nursing since 2018, being also responsible since 2009 for the Specialization area in Childcare Health and Paediatrics Nursing of this Master course.