The Degree Course in Nursing combines theoretical knowledge with practical training in various healthcare settings, with the aim of training a professional with relevant skills, able to address and perform a fundamental service to the individual and the community.

The three-year Degree Course, which qualifies for the practice of the profession, provides for programmed access and is regulated by an admission notice. In compliance with current legislation and consistent with what is established in terms of professional activity and responsibility by the European Union directives, the course aims to train healthcare professionals who independently carry out activities aimed at prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, palliation and the protection of individual and collective health.

The nurse participates in the recognition of the health needs of the individual and the community, formulates the related objectives, plans, manages and evaluates the nursing care intervention; ensures the correct application of diagnostic-therapeutic prescriptions; acts both individually and in collaboration with other health and social workers.

The achievement of professional skills is achieved through theoretical-practical training that includes the acquisition of behavioral skills, achieved in the specific work context, so as to guarantee, at the end of the training course, full mastery of all the necessary skills and their immediate usability in the work environment.

The teaching activities, with mandatory attendance, are divided into 180 university training credits (CFU), according to a six-month organization that includes theoretical training teaching activities, tutorials (Problem Based Learning, case method), professionalizing and individual study. The theoretical activities for both basic and professionalizing disciplines are integrated with practical activities: seminars, laboratories and internships. The internship, to be carried out in accredited healthcare facilities, accounts for a total of 60 CFU distributed over the three years of the course.

In order to deepen the theoretical-practical preparation, the Degree Course offers students the opportunity to participate in incoming and outgoing European projects (Erasmus Programs).

The graduate in Nursing can access post-basic university training (first level master's and advanced courses) and the Master's Degree Course in Nursing and Obstetric Sciences, Class LM/SNT1.

The Degree Course is activated at the teaching site of the Vito Fazzi Hospital in Lecce and the replica at the Pia Fondazione Panico Hospital in Tricase (Le).