On the study day "Innovation in Nursing Education and Opportunities in Healthcare" organized on Thursday 12th September byUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, is the president of the National Federation of Nursing Professions Orders (FNOPI) Barbara Mangiacavalli to summarize the strategic role of the university in process of renewal of the nursing profession which, in Italy, is experiencing a crisis that puts the proper functioning of the Health System at risk. "We have asked the institutions for a change and a structural reflection and we are in the final stages, in a great synergic action with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of the University of a path that provides, after a three-year degree, the possibility of continuing with 3 master's degrees with a specialist clinical focus to build new career paths. We are, therefore, defining three: territorial care (the "family" nurse and "community"), emergency-urgency (both hospital and territorial), neonatal pediatric. Subsequently placing them economically and legally in a different manner".
An aspect on which the world of university education agrees, as underlined by prof Maria Grazia De Marinis, Chairman of the Three-year Degree Course in Nursing e Master's Degree in Nursing and Midwifery Sciences dell 'Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma: "We are convinced that the teaching of nursing sciences must move in the direction of greater specialization, deepening the clinical, organizational, pedagogical and research skills around health problems that especially concern the elderly, chronically ill and end-of-life patients. Only in this way can the figure of the nurse take on greater depth and see the role that it already plays today in patient care and management recognized."
More clinical skills, therefore, in degree courses to make the action of nurses more effective towards the patient, offering a more qualified contribution in the context of daily collaboration with doctors, psychologists, bioethicists, physiotherapists. With the aim of increasing the well-being of the patient in the various phases of treatment and assistance.
In this sense, the new Master's Degree in Nursing and Midwifery Sciences UCBM, starting from the 2024-2025 academic year, focuses on multidisciplinarity contamination of knowledge for an integrated training that will lead students to train naturally alongside doctors, technicians of the health professions and ingegneri, thanks to the possibility of interacting directly in the hospital facilities made available by the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital Foundation.
Today in Italy there are 6,4 nurses per thousand inhabitants against a European average of 9,5 (4,1 doctors, against the OECD average of 3,7); to date there is a shortage of 65-70 thousand nurses, a number that could reach 90 thousand if the reform of territorial health care were to come into force. Furthermore, according to the Court of Auditors, 100 thousand nurses will retire in the next 10 years and already today 83 thousand are between 50 and 54 years old and 100 thousand between 55 and 65 years old (source Il Sole24Ore).
The speakers at the day of work in the Auditorium of the CU.BO of the University were: Francis Xavier Mennini for the Ministry of Health; Enrico Montaperto for the Ministry of University and Research; Vincenzo Di Lazzaro, Dean of the Departmental Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma; the Senator Paula Binetti, professor of History of Medicine; the professor Rosaria Alvaro, president of the Italian Society of Nursing Sciences, University of Rome Tor Vergata; Professor Alvisa Palese, president of the Permanent Conference of the Bachelor's and Master's Degree Courses in Health Professions, University of Udine; Maurice Zega, president of the Center of Excellence for Nursing Culture and Research (CECRI) and president of the Order of Nursing Professions of Rome (OPI Rome); Luigi Baldini, President of the National Institute for Social Security and Welfare of the Nursing Profession (ENPAPI); Hercules Vellone Associate Professor of Nursing Sciences, University of Rome Tor Vergata; Alberto Dal Molin, President of the Degree Course in Nursing, University of Piemonte Oriental; Blue Massimi, researcher at the Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome.