Nursing and midwifery sciences

This programme allows students to acquire advanced cultural and professional training to intervene with high skills in assistance, management, training and research processes in one of the areas pertaining to the different health professions involved (nurse, midwife or paediatric nurse). In this way, students develop welfare, educational and preventive skills in response to the priority 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 organization . In addition, they consciously apply technological and IT innovation, including with reference to forms of remote assistance or e-learning, and the planning and organization of pedagogical-training events according to European operational standards.

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

These skills include:

• detect and critically assess 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 organizational problems;  
• planning, managing and evaluating care services with a view to improving quality (planning, organisation, management, control);
• supervise assistance pertinent to the specific professional figure and carry out professional advice actions;
• apply and evaluate the impact of different theoretical models in the operation of care;
• designing, implementing and evaluating training interventions;
• develop teaching skills for the specific professional figure in the context of tutorial activities and internship coordination in basic, complementary and continuing education;
• use the methods and tools of research, pertinent to the professional figure, in the clinical-assistance areas, in the organization and in training;
• critically analyse the ethical aspects related to care and multi-professional and multi-cultural problems.