• Mode: research
• Duration (in credits): between 60 and 120
• Qualification awarded:  Master's Degree in Nursing Sciences
• Places available: 20 (non vacancies after 1st term)
• Cost per crèdit
• Admission to doctoral programmes
• Contact

• Participating institutions
• Presentation
• Admission requirements
• Contents
• Modes
• Pre-registration

Participating institutions

- Rovira i Virgili University
- University of Alicante
- University of Lleida
- International University of Catalonia
- University of Saragossa

- University of Huelva

- University of Almeria

Compulsory student mobility: no 

Presentation

The aim of this master's degree in interuniversity research is to train high-quality specialists and researchers in the nursing sciences and produce researchers and research that make it possible to extend knowledge of the social, cultural, political and psychological dimensions of the integral phenomenon of caring in the process of health and illness in the individual, the family and the community, and in the different areas of the health system.

Admission requirements

The Master's Degree courses are open to anybody with an official university qualification, even Spanish or foreign (this foreign degree must enable you to be admitted to postgraduate studies in the country where you obtained it).

In addition, universities in charge of the organization of a Master can establish those procedures and requirements considered necessary to be finally admitted to the Master. Therefore, as well as having a previous official degree, you should get informed about additional conditions and selection criteria which may have been addittionally established by each Master.

Contents

Course taught in: Catalan and Spanish

Common subjects (80 ECTS)
These subjects must be studied at one of the participating universities and they are organized in four blocks:

Block 1: Advanced Nursing (38.5 ECTS credits)
- Theories and Models (10 ECTS credits)
- Bioethics I (2.5 ECTS credits)
- Cures and New Health Demands (15 ECTS credits)
- Society and Health (5 ECTS credits)
- Psychology of Health (6 ECTS credits)

Block 2: Management (11 ECTS credits)
- Health Economy (5 ECTS credits)
- Management of health and Social Services (6 ECTS credits)

Block 3: Research (22 ECTS credits)
- Research Methodology I (10 ECTS credits)
- Research Methodology II (10 ECTS credits)
- Bioethics II (2 ECTS credits)

Block 4: Teaching (8.5 ECTS credits)
- Educational Methodology (8.5 ECTS credits)

Optional subjects (15 ECTS credits)
These subjects are of 2.5 credits and can be done at one or more of the participating universities.  

Subjects on the URV schedule (25 ECTS credits)
- Research in Nursing and Processes of Change (3 ECTS credits)
- Research in Family and Community Nursing (3 ECTS credits)
- Research Project (15.5 ECTS credits)
- Culture and Caring (3.5 ECTS credits)  

Modes

- Research

Official Master's degrees offer specific Modes which will be effectively initiated -or not- depending on the number of students finally admitted.

Pre-registration

The preregistration period (1st phase) will begin on 1st March and end on 30th April.

If all the places available are not taken within this period, a new preregistration period will be opened (2nd phase) between 1st and 30th June.

The preregistration must be carried out on the Internet. The online form will become operative on the first day of the preregistration period. preregistration application.

For academic questions, please get in touch with the coordinator of the Masters. For administrative information, contact the secretariat of the faculty/school that teaches the Master's Degree; if you have been offered a place in the program on the strength of a foreign qualification, the Postgraduate and Doctoral School will inform you of the documents you will need.

Pre-registration on-line

Administrative contact (coordinator)
Dra. Carme Ferré Grau  Department of Nursing (University School of School of Nursing)  977 251 408  carme.ferre(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Administrative contact (secretary)
Secretariat of the University School of Nursing  977 251 400  rosa.duran(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Postgraduate and Doctoral School
Edifici del Rectorat - Escala C, 1st floor - c/ Escorxador, s/n (Tarragona)   Tel: 977 558 478. Fax: 977 558 847   mastersoficials(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat  Office hours  Mornings: Mondays to Fridays from 8.30 to 14.30 Afternoons: Wednesdays and Thursdays from 15.30 to 18.00  July and August: Mondays to Fridays from 8.00 to 15.00

Further information

• Schedule for procedures involving students
• Admission regulations
• Programme:

  - Research

• Educational Guide
• Faculty/school for registration
• Administrative procedure
• Pre-registration on-line
• Documentation required for preregistration 
• Requirements for foreign documents 
• Frenquently-asked questions
• Payment of fees from abroad