Degree in Nursing

Degree Category: Nursing Professions (L/SNT1)

Chair of Course Council:

• Prof. Antonia Follenzi

The course is state-controlled, with restricted admission numbers. The admission requirements are: possession of a high school diploma and passing the admission test. For information on enrolment, you use the UPO risponde platform.

A degree in NURSING allows graduates to enter the health professions as a nurse.

The degree in Nursing of Università del Piemonte Orientale is divided across the following venues: Alessandria, Biella, Novara, Verbania and Vercelli. For the academic year 2022-2023, the training centre in Alba will also be activated.

A nurse is the health care worker responsible for providing general nursing care. Preventive, curative, palliative and rehabilitative nursing assistance is of a technical, relational, educational nature. The main duties are the prevention of disease, assistance of the sick and disabled of all ages, and health education.

The course offers a basic preparation in the field of basic and clinical sciences for a better understanding of the most relevant elements that underlie the physiological and pathological processes addressed by a nurse’s preventive, welfare and educational intervention.

Frontal teaching represents approximately half of the total training credits, while the remainder is assigned to professional internships, tutoring sessions on case discussion and problem-solving, teaching laboratories that address technical and relational skills, seminars, guided study and report production. The duration of the nursing degree course is 3 years and the teaching activities contribute to a total of 180 academic credits (ECTS).