The Sant Pau Nursing School University was created in 1953 as a Nursing School, and worked as a School of Healthcare Technical Assistants (ATS), from 1955 until the integration of these studies into the University in 1977.

On February 17th of 1978, the ATS School of the Hospital of “La Santa Creu and Sant Pau” School of Nursing joined the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Currently, the main lines of the EUI are teaching, research and university extension.

Its location in the context of Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona makes it easy to have different role, and improves the relationship between teaching and healthcare, while allowing the development of nationally referent practices model.