Nursing and Midwifery Sciences

This programme allows students to acquire advanced cultural and professional training to form high-skilled professionals who can intervene in care, management, training and research processes in one of the areas pertinent to the various health professions involved (nurse, midwife or paediatric nurse).

In this way, students develop welfare, educational and preventive skills in response to the main and health problems of the population and to problems of quality of services; they are able to take into account, in the planning and management of personnel in the health area, the needs of the community and the development of new methods of work organisation. They also consciously apply technological and IT innovation, also with reference to forms of remote assistance or remote teaching, and the planning and organisation of educational-training events according to the European operational standards.

The development of skills is pursued through a training project whose main pillars are the concepts of complexity, innovation and research.

These skills include:

• detecting and critically assessing the evolution of care needs pertinent to the specific professional figure, including in gender-related connotations, where required;
• planning and intervening operationally with regard to complex assistance and organisational problems;  
• planning, managing and evaluating care services with a view to improving quality (planning, organisation, management, control);
• supervising assistance pertinent to the specific professional figure and carrying out professional advice actions;
• applying and evaluating the impact of different theoretical models in care operations;
• designing, implementing and evaluating training interventions;
• developing teaching skills for the specific professional figure in the context of tutorial activities and internship coordination in basic, complementary and continuing education;
• using the methods and tools of research, pertinent to the professional figure, in the clinical-assistance areas, in the organisation and in training;
• critically analysing the ethical aspects related to care and multi-professional and multi-cultural problems.