Nursing

At the end of the three-year programme, Nursing graduates will have acquired the knowledge and technical, relational and educational skills to work professionally in public and private healthcare facilities. The specific outcomes aim to develop:

- critical thought and decision-making skills consistent with the general nursing responsibilities laid down in the ministerial profile (DM 739/94);

- competencies in inter- and intra-professional working teams, with particular orientation to multidisciplinary synergies and cooperation;

- interpersonal skills for working with patients and families, also through active teaching methods;

- long life learning skills, based on solid basic training;

Transversal skills developed during the study programme increase sensitivity and an approach based on the values expressed in the Nursing Code of Conduct.

This allows graduates to undertake further post-graduate and specialist studies.

1. Admission requirements and assessment

This study programme has restricted access. The number of places is set annually by MIUR at national level; an entrance exam is set in the methods and on the dates set in the call for applications for the Healthcare Professions, published annually on the School website.

Admission to the degree programme is subject to the possession of a five-year secondary school diploma or equivalent suitable qualification obtained abroad, or a four-year secondary school diploma and diploma for the relative supplementary year, or, where no longer active, admitted students will be assigned additional learning requirements.

Applicants shall also demonstrate the knowledge and competences defined annually by ministerial decree for the entrance exams to degree programmes with nationally restricted access.

The number of places, entrance exam date, contents and selection methods are published annually in the relative call for applications.

2. Assessment of basic knowledge

The knowledge and competence requirements for admission are deemed to be met by applicants who obtain the following scores in the entrance exam:

for students in the quota of Italian, EU and equivalent nationals: 20;

for students in the quota of non-EU citizens resident abroad, as laid down in the laws in force: 5.

The entrance exams will be held by 31 January of each year.

3. Additional learning requirements and assessment

Enrolled students who did not obtain the minimum score in the entrance exam will be assigned the following Additional Learning Requirements ("OFA"), which must be completed during the first year of the programme:

Basic Medical Knowledge.

The Additional Learning Requirements are deemed to have been passed when students pass the exam in:

Biological Sciences (I.C.)

Students not completing the requirements by the date set by the Academic Bodies and published on the University portal will be required to re-enrol to the first year of the programme as repeating students.

4. Exemption of assessment of basic knowledge

Only applicants having obtained the credits indicated in the following subject areas in previous studies will be exempted from sitting the entrance exam:

- Subject area MED/10 (Biochemistry): 3 CFU

- Subject area BIO/13 (Applied Biology): 3 CFU

- Subject area MED/03 (Medical Genetics): 1 CFU

For students from the previous degree system under D.M. 509/99, exemption will be approved if they have passed at least one exam relating to the knowledge covered by the aforementioned subject areas.

Applicants to whom this clause refers should apply for exemption when submitting their application to the Student Administration Office.