Aims: The objectives of the programme are: to train researchers with critical awareness to responsibly respond to health demanding tendencies; to train doctors with the necessary capacities to assume the responsibility of creatively leading the contributions of nursing to the changing processes in the field of health, to the new challenges of the current scientific and technological development and to the new demographic, political, economic and social sceneries; to give an answer to the necessity of confronting new demands derived from ageing, chronic diseases, disabilities, dependence, and the new scenery of social politics derived from globalisation; to contribute to the creation of spaces which facilitate the development of relations to strengthen the participation in cross-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary team, as a key element to achieve a change in quality and efficiency of health assistance.

Description: Within health attention, the growing importance of nursing and the high level of value and recognition professionals who have studied in the Spanish university system have reached, and which makes some of the countries within the European Union consider labour request preferentially by our nursing experiences. This professional potential needs of an answer from the university educative system and the institutions in order to enable development of advanced training and research programmes which allow them to generate and amplify existent knowledge in current societies. The important changes in the demands from the current health world, the new challenges of technologic and scientific development, new demographic, political, economic and social sceneries which are present in the 21st century society and the increasing demands derived from aging, chronicle diseases, disabilities and dependences which create the necessity of training researcher nurses, with a critical conscience which enables them to responsibly act against health demanding tendencies of the contemporary world.