Interdisciplinarity and internationalization: two challenging aspects of nursing research.

Nursing has interfaces with numerous other areas in the production of knowledge, involving Biological and Health Sciences (Medicine, Biology, Nutrition, Physical Therapy, and others), the Humanities (Psychology, Education, History) and Applied Social Sciences (Organizations, Work , Education, Communication, Information Technology and Economics). Many of these interfaces/interactions are already recognized research fields and incorporated tradition, such as the Nursing in the Collective Health sector that establishes important dialogue/discourse with the Public Health, Collective Health , Epidemiology, Anthropology and Economic sectors, among others.