Content Official Master's Degree in Research and Innovation in Nursing Care

Ideal student profile

The master's degree in Research and Innovation in Nursing Care aims to help those with a university qualification in Nursing to further improve the care they provide to the public, through innovation based on research.

Its students should have a capacity for innovation, initiative and interdisciplinary work, a spirit of adventure, and the potential to develop the critical thinking skills that will enable them to formulate, communicate and contrast their ideas. They should also be able to observe and reflect on their daily practice so as to question and ultimately improve on it.

It is recommended to have reading and listening skills in English.

Basic skills

• Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.
• Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
• Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
• Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
• Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously

Specific skills

• Use specific software to promote and improve knowledge transfer.
• Proactively manage policies on safety for patients and healthcare organisations.
• Analyse professional practice and formulate proposals for improvement from the perspective of creative management, knowledge management, innovation and research.
• Analyse and interpret data from research linked to innovation in nursing care.
• Define, design, plan and draw up an original unpublished research project on nursing care, following the established academic and scientific parameters.
• Differentiate between research types and apply scientific methodology.
• Recognise and explain the ethical, legal and financial context of research in the health sciences.

Cross-curricular skills

• Seek out, choose and manage information independently, both from structured sources (databases, bibliographies, or specialist journals) and from internet searches.
• Organise time and resources to conduct a research project: prioritising objectives, and setting calendars and plans for action.
• Critically analyse and synthesise information from a specialist article or monograph, and from high-quality information distributed on internet.