Laurea (First cycle degree/Bachelor - 180 ECTS) in Nursing (for certified professional nurses)

Graduates in nursing will be responsible for the general nursing service. The main functions are the prevention of diseases, aid to sick and disabled people of all ages and for health care education. They will participate in the identification of the health needs of individuals and the public in general. They will identify the need for nursing services for individuals and the public in general and define the relative objectives. They will plan, manage and evaluate the intervention of any nursing service.

Graduates in Nursing will be health care operators with the duties provided for by the Decree of the Ministry of Health nr. 739 of September 14 1994 and subsequent modifications and amendments; that is, they will be responsible for general nursing services. Such preventive, curative, palliative and rehabilitative nursing services are of technical, relational and educational nature. Their main functions are the prevention of diseases, assistance to sick and disabled people of all ages and for health care education. Graduates in nursing services will participate in the identification of health needs of individuals and the public in general; identify the needs for nursing services for individuals and the public in general and define relative objectives; they will plan, manage and evaluate interventions of nursing service; they will guarantee the correct application of the diagnostical-therapeutical applications; they will act both alone or in coollaboration with other medical and social operators, using, whereby deemed necessary, the work of personnel of support; they will practice their professional activities in public or private medical centres, throughout the territory and at home assistance, either as employees or as freelances; they will contribute to the training of support personnel and directly contribute to the updating of their professional profile and research.