To train nursing professionals capable of:

1. Conduct nursing research that leads to the application and deepening of knowledge in the discipline.
2. Participate in interdisciplinary research that promotes innovations in the provision of services and in the training of human resources in health.
3. Plan, develop and evaluate nursing care for individuals, families and community groups, based on scientific knowledge of the discipline and related disciplines.
4. Participate in the design of health policies, strategies and programs that promote the improvement of health care for individuals, families and community groups.
5. Plan, execute and evaluate training programs for nursing human talent.

1. Complete the registration form online and submit it on the established dates accompanied by the following documents:
   1. Professional degree awarded by a Colombian university, recognized by the national Government or issued by a foreign university of recognized quality in the judgment of the Universidad del Valle.
   2. Certificate of undergraduate grades with hourly intensity, issued by the corresponding university.
   3. Certificate of minimum 3 years of professional experience.
   4. Reference on professional performance issued by those who have been your superiors.
2. Cancel the registration fee.
3. Take the verbal aptitude and abstract reasoning tests.
4. Written essay on a possible research topic, no more than three pages long.
5. Conduct the personal interview. 

The Postgraduate Committee will make a selection based on the scores obtained in the tests and in the interview. Applicants who are accepted must register on the dates indicated in the academic calendar. Upon notification of acceptance, detailed information will be sent to them regarding the documents required for registration.

Professional Profile 

This program prepares graduates to conduct and participate in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research that fosters theoretical and conceptual deepening of knowledge in nursing care.

They carry out qualitative and quantitative research in nursing and health in the outpatient, hospital and community areas according to the field of emphasis of their training, with knowledge, skills and attitudes to carry out disciplinary and interdisciplinary research.

They can participate in the design of health policies and strategies and develop models for nursing care.

They provide holistic and culturally congruent nursing care to individuals, families and communities according to their field of emphasis and taking into account the ethical principles of human care.

Occupational Profile

Graduates of the Master's program in Nursing are professionals

• With knowledge, skills and attitudes to carry out disciplinary and interdisciplinary research.
• Able to innovate, improve and propose alternative solutions to nursing work through research and practice. 
• Able to participate in the planning, development and evaluation of training programs for professional and vocational nursing human resources.
• With ethical values ​​and attitudes that include a great appreciation and reverence for the person and human life, the autonomy and freedom of decision of people, a great appreciation of the experiential and subjective world of the person.
• With communication skills that facilitate interaction with members of the work team and users of the services.
• With critical capacity, creativity and sensitivity to sociopolitical problems that affect people's care and health.

First Period

Biometrics

Second Period

Nursing Research
Community, Family and Health

Third Period

Research Seminar I
Outpatient Care*

Fourth Period

Research Seminar II
Hospital Care*

Fifth Period

Research Work

*Outpatient care and hospital care are subjects that are diversified according to the field of emphasis selected by the student.

• Approval of the subjects of the Study Plan with an average equal to or greater than 3.5. 
• Presentation, defense and approval of the Research Work.
• Passing the English proficiency exam. 

In 1967, the School began its postgraduate programs in Nursing at the Master's level with the aim of training professionals to perform positions of greater complexity and responsibility in the clinical, administrative, teaching and research areas; thus, in this decade, Master's programs in Maternal-Child, Pediatrics, Medical-Surgical, Mental Health and Psychiatry were offered; these programs were offered until 1974. 

In 1988 the School restarted the Master's Program in Nursing in 3 areas of emphasis: Maternal Child, Child and Adult and Elderly. 

The Nursing program was updated in 1993, through resolution No. 019 of February 26, 1992 of the Superior Council of the Universidad del Valle, by which the Master's Degree in Nursing with the Distance Methodology was established. 

In 2003, a virtual learning platform was built at the Universidad del Valle, where the resources and tools were gathered to develop the distance learning course. Since 2005, with the aim of finding a broader and faster evolving platform that would handle learning object standards, the Moodle platform was introduced, which allows teachers and students to develop entirely virtual programs. In that same year, Blended Learning began to be used, which mixes the resources of the teaching-learning process and those of distance education in order to enhance the strengths and reduce the limitations of both modalities. These resources have been strengthened over the years and have adapted to technological advances, favoring the advanced training of nurses, from their workplaces and home, promoting the discipline and the profession in Nursing.