The new is born Master's Degree Course in Nursing and Midwifery Sciences dell 'Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, designed to meet the growing needs of nursing care. This is an initiative that offers new growth prospects for the nursing profession: staff has long been insufficient and enrollments in three-year degree courses are showing a decline, which should be worrying considering the demographic evolution of the population.

"The increase in the elderly population brings with it problems of chronicity and lack of self-sufficiency, which prefigures a greater need for nursing care, especially in the local area. - explains the prof Maria Grazia De Marinis, President of the Master's Degree Course - Hospitals are certainly not the places to address these issues. In local services, adequately trained personnel are needed to assist an aging population that does not always have the capacity to independently manage its own health needs".

This Master's Degree, which has been in place in Italy for some time, has had the aim of developing mainly organizational management functions, of coordination of services. In line with the current strategic objectives of the National Federation of Nursing Professions Orders (Fnopi), UCBM has activated its Course for the academic year 2024/2025 which is dividedingue for his particular attention to chronicity. "Currently, the three-year program trains nurses with a generalist education, ready to work in different areas of the healthcare sector. But in some sectors, we need to ensure that nurses raise their level of qualification. - says Prof. De Marinis - Our Master's degree aims to prepare students to become highly competent professionals in nursing care dedicated to that part of the population that at this time represents a priority problem. Therefore, we aim to develop the skills of the family nurse, the nurse who must manage chronic conditions and the nurse who accompanies at the end of life".

In recent years theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma , Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital Foundation they activated the Palliative Care Center "Together in Care", of which Prof. De Marinis is the Director, created to assist patients and families in the most delicate phases of the disease. Within the Palliative Care Center, students can develop advanced skills in hospice and home care to respond to the needs of patients and families in the most critical moments of their lives.

The new Master's Degree will therefore provide advanced skills from both a healthcare and organizational point of view, will delve into the ethical principles and values ​​that form the foundation of the nursing profession, as well as developing the ability to work in interdisciplinary teams. "Finally, the course will help nurses to have research methodologies in hand to be able to bring innovation in the field of nursing sciences, a field that has reached a very high level internationally and that is also growing in Italy".

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