title: Doctorate nursing degree in Spain.
abstract: Analytical and descriptive study of the process of change being experienced in the Spanish university system over the last decade (2005-2014).
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To describe the structural changes occurring in Nursing Education in Spain, reaching access to doctoral studies from the European Convergence Process and the subsequent legislative development.
  
  
  METHODS
  Bibliographical review of royal decrees and reference literature on the subject of study and descriptive analysis of the situation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Carries various changes suffered in the curricula of nursing education in the last decade, the legislation of the European Higher Education sets the guidelines for current studies of Masters and Doctorates.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The implementation of the Master and Doctorate stages after a basic degree, which is now possible with the new legislation. A formal beginning made of scientific nursing in order to generate their own lines of research led by Doctors of nursing who can integrate in research groups under the same condition as other researcher, yet now, from the nursing discipline itself.
authors: Departamento de Enfermería, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, ES.
authors: Ma José
authors: MJ
authors: López-Montesinos
authors: Departamento de Enfermería, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, ES.
authors: Loreto
authors: L
authors: Maciá-Soler
mesh_terms: D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000592:standards; D005062:European Union; D013030:Spain