Sílvia Caldeira is an associate professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing at the Catholic University of Portugal. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin in 2015. Pediatric nurse and specialist in medical-surgical nursing (patients with chronic illness). She is an integrated researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Health (CIIS), where she coordinates two research projects that integrate PhD and Master's students: the spirit in health project and the NANDA-I project. The spirit in health project includes research concerning the study of spirituality in healthcare and the NANDA-I project concerns the study of nursing diagnoses. Since 2019 she is the coordinator of the PhD in Nursing at the Portuguese Catholic University, for the Lisbon class. She was the first coordinator of the Portuguese network of NANDA International between 2014 and 2020 and took part of the diagnostics development committee. This is an international nursing diagnosis organization, based in Boston College in the US. In 2020, she was elected director of the research committee of this organization and joined the board of directors. She has collaborated in international projects related to the teaching of spirituality in health and some were founded. She has published books, chapters, national and international scientific articles. She was one of the 8 most cited researchers at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in Stanford University's World's Top 2% Scientists 2021 ranking (USA). He has received numerous scientific awards and, in June 2021, received the recognition award for her unique contribution to the development of nursing diagnoses and from NANDA International (The Unique Contribution Award is presented by the NANDA-I Board of Directors, to those individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of nursing diagnosis and the Association). In 2020 and in 2021 she received the congratulation vote from the Legislative General Assembly of Madeira island and from the Town-hall of Machico (Madeira Island) due to her international contribution to nursing and healthcare development.