Karina Cardoso Gulbis

Holds a degree in Nursing with a specialization in Family Health from Unisul, a specialist in Didactics and Methodology of Higher Education, and a specialist in Nursing Practices for Critical Patients from Unesc. She has a Master's degree in Nursing from UFSC - Unochapecó, and a PhD in Health Sciences from Unesc. She is currently a full professor at Unesc.

Stomatherapist and naturopath. She has a nursing practice in Criciúma - EMDOC (Nursing - Medicine and Documentation) - and works interdisciplinary (Medicine and Nursing) with both in-person and online courses, home visits emphasizing health promotion, primary health prevention (preventing bedsores, best health practices to avoid complications in chronic patients, guidance for TRM patients on self-care and achieving as much independence as possible). 

Has experience in the field of Nursing, with an emphasis on Family Health Strategy, mainly working on the following topics: comprehensiveness, integrated care, nursing professionals, nursing and health. She has experience in hospital emergency, medical and surgical clinics, and radiological units.

Full member of the Research Group on Collective Health and Social Control: a Right to be Realized from the Laboratory of Sanitary Law and Collective Health at Unesc. Member of Nepies - Center for Studies and Research in Comprehensiveness, Nursing, and Health - Unesc. Volunteer member of the Active Life Group São José for Spinal Cord Injured Patients. 

Since 2009, she has been a member reviewer of the Ethics Committee for Research with Human Beings - Unesc. Member of SOBEST (Brazilian Association of Stomatherapy). Served on the board of ABEn from 2013 to 2016 and from 2016 to 2019. Member of ABEN - Brazilian Nursing Association and COREN - Regional Nursing Council - SC. She coordinates, guides, and provides assistance to people with stomas, wounds, and incontinence through extension projects, research, and volunteering. 

Topics covered in her lectures

• Oncology 
• Wounds
• Incontinence
• Stomy
• Integrative therapies
• Hospital health
• Family health strategy
• Basic life support
• Men's health
• Women's health