The objective of the PhD in nursing is to ensure advanced training in an independent disciplinary field, with enough determination I epistemological of its object and with a proper place in the creation of knowledge and practices of specialized intervention. The Understanding and Effectiveness of nursing care is the research focus that is operationalized in different areas: 1) Develop and evaluate complex interventions; 2) Innovating and developing practices; 3) Lived experience and epistemology of practice; 4) History of nursing; 5) Emotions in health; 6) Organizational environment in health: quality and care management; 7) Educating and learning in nursing