Official Doctorate in Nursing Sciences

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Doctoral Program in Nursing Sciences

General Aims
Doctorate Structure
Lines of Research
Doctoral Thesis Directors
Admission
Contact
Departament in charge of the management of the doctoral programme
Collaborating departments

General Aims of the Doctorate

The main aim of the doctorate is to produce doctors for high quality and advanced research. To this end, the general aims of the course are the following:

To incorporate the students into a research group.
To broaden their skills so that they can specialize in different aspects of the lines of research set out in the programme.
To strengthen students' initiative in developing research projects with a methodology and scientific principles appropriate to their field of research.
To foster general individual and team working abilities, participation in research projects, bibliographical database management, etc.
To produce a doctoral thesis.

Structure of Doctorate

The doctorate program is linked to the following Master's degree introduced on the University (in order to the RD 1393/2007):

Nursing Sciences

Research Lines and Directors of Doctoral Theses

The teaching staff participating in the doctorate belong to research groups from the four URV departments involved in the Official Postgraduate Programme in Nursing Sciences: Nursing, Business Administration, Economics, Psychology.

Teachers are assigned to lines of research as follows:

Care Dimensions: Representations and Practicals: Dr. Mª Jesús Montés Muñoz (Dept. of Nursing), Dr. Àngels Pallarès Martí (Dept. of Nursing), Dr. Carme Ferré Grau (Dept. of Nursing), Dr. Josep Canals, Dr. José Luís Medina Moya, Dr. María Francisca Jiménez Herrera (Dept. of Nursing), Dr. Mª Antonia Martorell Poveda (Dept. of Nursing)

Research in Family and Community Nursing: Dr. Carme Ferré Grau (Dept. of Nursing), Dr. Ana Maria Borruel Llovera (Dept. of Nursing), Dr. Joaquín Tomás Sábado, (Dept. of Nursing), Dr. Àngels Pallarès Martí (Dept. of Nursing), Dr. Jerónimo Jurado Campos (Dept. of Nursing)

Women and gender studies. Professional and health study of women. Dr. Montserrat Duch Plana (Dept. of History and History of Art), Dr. Josep Canals, Dr. Mª Jesús Montés Muñoz (Dept. of Nursing), Dr. María Inmaculada Pastor Gosálbez (Dept. of Business Management)

Methodology and applications in the Mental and Additions Nursing research. Dr. Teresa Lluch, Dr. Joaquín Tomàs Sábado (Dept. of Nursing), Dr. Carme Ferré Grau (Dept. of Nursing), Dr. Maria del Mar Lleixà Fortuño (Dept. of Nursing)

Health Economy: Use and Financing of Health Resources: Dr. Misericòrdia Carles Labila (Dept. of Economics)

Sociology of Organizations and Public Administration of the Health Services: Dr. Àngel Gabriel Belzunegui Eraso (Dept. of Business Management), Dr. María Inmaculada Pastor Gosálbez (Dept. of Business Management)

Interdisciplinary Intervention in Chronic Pain: Dr. Jordi Miró Martínez (Dept. of Psychology)

Psychosociology of Occupational Health: stress, mobing, life quality and psychological care to health professionals Dr. Jordi Tous Pallarès (Dept. of Psychology), Dr. Carme Ferré Grau (Dept. of Nursing)

University teaching and nursing: educational innovation. Dr. Maria del Mar Lleixà Fortuño (Dept. of Nursing), Dr. Carme Ferré Grau (Dept. of Nursing), Dr. Teresa Lluch, Dr. María Francisca Jiménez Herrera (Dept. of Nursing), Dr. Azucena Pedraz Marcos, Dr. Maria del Carme Padró Cabello (Dept. of Nursing), Dr. Jerónimo Jurado Campos (Dept. of Nursing)

Cultural care and health. Dr. Mª Antonia Martorell Poveda (Dept. of Nursing), Dr. María Francisca Jiménez Herrera (Dept. of Nursing)

Ethic and bioethic in welfare relations. Bioethic and education. Dr. María Francisca Jiménez Herrera (Dept. of Nursing)

The lines of research are based on the research activity of the different groups involved in the programme

Admission

Maximum number of students: 10
Criteria for admission and selection:

The fulfilment of the established conditions, as a requirement of admission in the 19th article and 4th addicional order of the RD 1393/2007, is necessary to be able to entry at the Doctorate Program while its research mode.

To make an official application for admission, students must hand in the application form, duly completed, to the department in charge of organizing the doctoral programme. If necessary, the specific documentation required by the course must also be handed in.

The specific admission and selection criteria for this official doctoral programme are as follows:

Students must have completed at least 300 ECTS credits at undergraduate and Master's level in the same field as the doctorate or in a related field. Depending on their academic curriculum, some students may be able to do supplementary courses and seminars.
Students must have passed the specific credits of the Official Master's Degree in Nursing Sciences.

During the selection process the body in charge of admissions will establish the criteria for prioritizing the applications. As well as the application students must present the following to the departmental secretary: