Master's Degree in Nursing and Midwifery

The Master’s Degree in Nursing and Midwifery of Vita-Salute San Raffaele University aspires to to respond to the great demand for advanced skills in the nursing and obstetric fields in Italy.

Graduates will be health professionals able to design and manage innovative interventions aimed at the continuous improvement of their clinical practice, using the most up-to-date methodologies in the managerial, technological and pedagogical field of the research evidences.

The 120 credits acquired in the 2 years of the course constitute a training background that allows to take on professional leadership and consultancy roles in the contexts where the health professionals operate. Graduates will therefore be able to carry out teaching, tutoring, training planning, coordination and organizational management functions.

Given the emerging challenges, the Program is conceived as the full disciplinary maturation of the competence profile offered by the three-year degrees in Nursing and Obstetrics and is aimed at training graduates in possession of advanced knowledge and skills necessary for the study of the complexity of the phenomena of professional interest in order to support continuous improvement processes, whether they are related to the clinic, research, training or care organization.

 

The study plan is characterized by an alternation between traditional activities, learning from experience activities (workshops, internships, etc.) and activities chosen by the student in order to allow a high degree of personalization of the training path.

Internships are foreseen in both years of the course.

In the first year, the student will be welcomed for two weeks in accredited services of his choice among those available, with the mandate to apply, under the guidance of an expert nurse, the knowledge and methodologies acquired for the resolution of a clinical background question related to their field of interest.

In the second year, there is a 4-week internship experience in accredited services chosen by the student (Nursing and Obstetrics Departments, Operational or Service Units, Training Services, Research Centers, Degree Courses, Quality Offices, Organizational Consultancy Company in Healthcare, etc.). This experience, to which the fourth semester of the Master’s is almost entirely dedicated, is aimed at developing, under the supervision of an expert colleague, an innovation project applied to a context chosen by the student.

Classes in the Master of Science in Nursing and Midwifery degree program are composed mainly of working students from outside the Lombardy Region as well.

Study plan

The course of study has tried to concentrate lecture, laboratory and internship hours into a few days. The entire second semester of the second year is totally free from curricular lectures, leaving students free to organize work for internships, attendance of their chosen elective course, and the development of their dissertation.

Schedule of classes

Since its opening in 2020, the course of study has monitored what student workers' preferences were regarding the organization of classes. The vast majority of students, especially off-campus ones, appreciate the organization of classes “every other week,” so indicatively 10 days of classes per month.

In addition, in order to make it easier for working students to organize academic commitments with work and family demands, the Master of Science in Nursing and Midwifery degree program carries out intensive coordination and planning with all the figures involved - lecturers, tutors, administrative staff - with the intention of offering all students, by September, the entire planning of educational activities planned for the entire following academic year.

In this way, each student knows far in advance the activities that will require his or her presence at the university - lectures, labs, exam appearances, etc. - and can accordingly arrange his or her work and family commitments accordingly.

Scheduling of the following year's educational activities takes place by late spring of the previous academic year and actively involves the student representatives, who thus have an opportunity to make suggestions and proposals for changes to make the calendar even more useful to the following year's students.