Professional Opportunities

Profile: Nurse
Roles: In accordance to the DM 739/94, graduates' main roles concern disease prevention, assistance to ill persons and disabled of any age, and health education. They participate to the identification of individual and community health needs; they identify individual and community nursing needs and plan the related aims; they plan, manage, and evaluate the nursing intervention; they guarantee the right application of the diagnostic-therapeutic prescriptions; they act individually or in cooperation with the other healthcare and social operators, relying, if necessary, on support staff.
Graduates have a number of professional opportunities in public healthcare structures (hospitals, residential care homes, social and medical wards, local home care, care on the ambulance or helicopter, etc.) and in private healthcare structures (private clinics and day hospitals, private residential facilities, cooperatives, etc.) as freelancers (home care, consultations, etc.).
The areas of expertise connected to the role (art. 31 of the directive 2013/55/CE) are:
- Culture, ethics, and values;

- Health promotion, prevention, guide, and education;

- Decision-making process;

- Team communication and work;

- Research, development, and leadership;

- Nursing.
The graduate must prove to be able to apply at least the following specific competences:
A. Independently finding the needed nursing by using the current theoretical and clinical knowledge, as well as planning, organising, and realising nursing interventions based on the knowledge and skills established in the Dublin Descriptors for the best practice.
B. Effectively working with the other healthcare operators, including the practical training of the healthcare staff on the basis of the acquired knowledge and abilities.
C. Helping people, families, and groups acquire healthy lifestyles and self-care skills, on the basis of the profession's nature and ethics, and of the general principles on health and nursing.
D. Autonomously starting immediate interventions to save lives, and carrying on these actions in moments of crisis or catastrophes.
E. Independently giving suggestions, educating, and supporting individuals and their families in need of assistance.
F. Autonomously guaranteeing and evaluating the quality of nursing.
G. Completely and professionally communicating with other healthcare professionals.
H. Evaluating the quality of nursing with the purpose to improve one's professional practice.

Competences: The professional nurse should have an adequate knowledge on the basic, clinical, and nursing sciences in order to better understand the most important elements at the base of the physiological and pathological processes towards which his/her preventive intervention, healthcare intervention, and intervention of therapeutic education is directed; he/she should possess the ability to face problems with an unitary view including the psychological and socio-cultural dimension of the processes health-illness; he/she should have a knowledge adequate to the ethical, deontological, and legal dimensions of one's activity; he/she should show relational skills with the patient during the helping relationship and with the other professional figures; he/she should have acquired the nursing methodology and be able to apply it in his/her areas of expertise; he/she should possess the bases for the understanding of the scientific research processes upon which the nursing evidence practice is founded; he/she should be able to use the English language to exchange general information and in his/her specific area of expertise.
Graduates participate to the identification of individual and community health needs; they identify individual and community nursing needs and plan the related aims; they plan, manage, and evaluate the nursing intervention; they guarantee the right application of the diagnostic-therapeutic prescriptions; they act individually or in cooperation with the other healthcare and social operators, relying, if necessary, on support staff; they operate in public and private healthcare structures, locally or in home care, both as employees and freelancers; they participate to the training of the support staff, independently update their professional profile, and directly contribute to research.
Professional Opportunities: Graduates can pursue a further education by enrolling in Masters Degree Programmes, after passing an admission test organised by universities, first level Professional Master Courses, and Specialisation Courses. After obtaining the Masters degree, they can enrol in second level Professional Master Courses and PhD Programmes. 
They can operate, upon registration into the Professional Association (IPASVI), in public and private hospitals of any sort. They can also operate in other local, national, and European structures, or work as freelancers.

With regard to the need to consolidate and make more profitable the relationship with the social parts and with the stakeholders in the field of Degree Courses for the health professions on April 23, 2018, at 12.30 pm, in the classroom 1B of the Department of Odontostomatological and Maxillofacial Sciences, in Caserta’s street n. 6 Rome, took place the meeting between:

  1. The University of Rome La Sapienza for the Degree and Master's Degree Courses of the L-LM / SNT1, L-LM / SNT2, L-LM / SNT3 and L-LM / SNT 4 classes of the Sapienza University Health Professions in Rome of the three faculties of medical area: Pharmacy and Medicine, Medicine and Dentistry, Medicine and Psychology;
  2. The social partners concerned, represented by the Professional Associations listed below.

Present for the University of Rome Sapienza: the Dean Prof. Carlo Della Rocca, Prof. Giuseppe Familiari, delegated by the Dean Prof. Massimo Volpe; the Dean Prof. Sebastiano Filetti was absent. The Proffs: Antonio Angeloni, Ersilia Barbato, Maria De Giusti, Ricciarda Galandrini, Esterina Pascale, Vincenzo Petrozza, Donatella Valente. The Dott.: Vincenzo Mancino, Cinzia Castellani; absent justified Daniela Roncone.

The following are present for professional associations: Dott.ri: Pulimeno A. (IPASVI / OPI), Messina P. (Obstetric Order), De Marinis M.C. (AIFI), Fornari M.A. (FLI), Cordò C. (AITNE), Montes M. (AIORAO), De Lorenzo V. (AITERP), Segaletti L. (AITO), Antonacci G. (AIP), Bonifacio A. (ANUPI), Panella N. and Iannuzzi G. (AITN), Lozzi MA (FITELAB), Catanea A. (ANTOI), Borrelli S. (National Federation of medical radiological health techniques), Lastella P. (AIDI), Martinelli M. (UNPISI), Macedonio A. (ASNAS).

The meeting was lively and productive and in the numerous speeches the need to come to a system of continuous comparison was emphasized through the realization of permanent technical tables and specific Classes that include periodic meetings (and in this sense if they foresee at least two for type of Degree Class / Degree Course before the end of 2018) in order to give more and more substance to the collaboration between Universities and social partners. From a methodological point of view, the meeting had an especially organizational significance and identification of large strands of intervention, all in line with the "Sapienza" quality project for the purpose of achieving greater homogeneity in the homologous training paths of the various CdS. In this sense, the opportunity to review the design of the training courses and the verification of the same was noted, in order to increase the social usability, knowledge and skills of the graduates' profiles and the opportunity of refining the self-assessment processes simultaneously with a necessary compliance to the ANVUR evaluation lines, as well as for a real and compliant use of the qualifications acquired in the socio-working context of the Country.

The fields of intervention identified and almost common to all the CdL are:

  • adaptation of curricula and teaching objectives in consideration of the new strategies of intervention of the NHS in terms of proximity of the care and taking charge of the patient with chronic pathology, as well as of the new health needs deriving from the progressive globalization of qualitative and quantitative implementation of the professionalizing activity through the identification of minimum standards for the activation of the specific internship sites and pedagogical training actions of the tutors;
  • monitoring of the students' post-graduate path in terms of placement times and specific problems in entering the job market;
  • continuous updating of the regulations of the CdS for a better level of uniformity in the various training courses, as required by the learning objectives expressed by the Dublin Descriptors, in the articulations of the study courses, in the learning methods and in the verification of the knowledge and skills achieved by Students.

In addition, the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology had a meeting with the Italian Private Hospitality Association of Lazio (AIOP Lazio) carried out on 13 April 2018, attended by Prof. Giuseppe Familiari, for Sapienza and Dr. Jessica Faroni, President of AIOP Lazio. The meeting again confirmed the agreement already signed in 2013 aimed at improving the employment of new graduates of Sapienza at the facilities belonging to AIOP Lazio. This agreement will have to be further implemented in its application; the importance of proposing to interned elective students at RSAs, Hospices, Psychiatric Facilities, Centers for Disabled People and long-term care was also reiterated.