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Faculty of: Medicine And Surgery

Nursing and midwifery sciences

ROME-Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Academic Year 2023/2024

Duration 2 years

Language Italian

Degree classes LM/SNT1 (Nursing and midwifery)


The first year is designed to provide the conceptual and methodological models of the four areas of competence of the graduate programme:

  • Research and innovation area: methods of medical and social statistics, critical analysis of literature, research methodology and evidence-based healthcare practice;
  • Area of nursing and obstetrics theory and philosophy of ursing and midwifery science and bioethical and anthropological insights;
  • Organisation and management area: principles and methods of health economics and planning, in-depth study of administrative and labour law;
  • Area of training and education: theoretical models of social psychology, group psychology, theories of adult learning and tutoring methods.

Internships/traineeships are foreseen for the development of projects in line with the educational objectives of the study programme.

The second year is aimed at applying and contextualising the theoretical models and methods learned in the four areas of competence of the graduate in Nursing and Obstetrics Sciences and with specific reference
to future work contexts:

  • Research and innovation area: analysis of organisational, pedagogical and clinicalprofessional research studies and training in deducing implications for practice;
  • Area of nursing and midwifery: in-depth study of relevant nursing and midwifery processes in order to design innovative models with a strong impact on the quality of care for users;
  • Organisation and management area: in-depth study of strategies for the direction and management of professional and health services on the basis of criteria of efficiency and effectiveness, the management of human resources, the design of organisational integration tools and the evaluation of the quality of services;
  • Training and education area: in-depth study of the design and management of basic and advanced training systems specific to the nursing and midwifery professions and of continuing education activities.

Internships/traineeships are foreseen for the development of projects, consistent with the educational objectives of the study programme.
The study programme includes activities to further develop the English language.
Teaching within the different scientificdisciplinary areas is carried out as required with:

  1. face-to-face lessons to deepen subjectspecific knowledge;
  2. theoretical and practical exercises to provide the graduate with a solid operational training and the ability to apply the different knowledge;
  3. laboratory and internship activities (carried out with at least 30 ECTS under the supervision and guidance of specially assigned professional tutors, coordinated by a lecturer belonging to the highest level of training provided for the profile to provide the graduate with considerable practical preparation that will enable him/her to enter the world of work easily. Internships may be carried out at Faculty facilities, public and private health care companies, as well as stays at other Italian or foreign universities, also within the framework of national and international agreements;
  4. seminars on particular topics in the various disciplines.

Training Credits

The graduate programme in Nursing and midwifery sciences has a two-year duration and is divided into four semesters with a total of 120 ECTS. A total of 25 hours of work per student is included in the university credit (ECTS). The distribution of the total hourly commitment for each ECTS between teaching and individual study is determined as follows:

  • 1 ECTS lecture: 8 hours of frontal teaching + 17 hours of individual study
  • ECTS elective: 8 hours of frontal teaching + 17 hours of individual study
  • 1 ECTS internship: 12 hours of practical work + 13 hours of individual study
  • 1 ECTS final examination: 25 hours of individual study

The student acquires the ECTS foreseen for each training activity following the passing of an examination or other forms of verification of learning.

Attendance

The total number of examinations planned and spread over the two academic years is 12. The graduate programme develops its teaching in presence. Attendance at lessons and internships/laboratories is compulsory. The student must have attended 100% of the total number of hours set aside for the internship in the specific year of the programme and must have attended at least 80% of the scheduled teaching activities for each course.