Orientation, Course overview and Job Opportunities
Orientation
The Nursing Degree Course is part of the University's Health Professions class. Students interested, are encouraged to participate at Orientation Days organized by Vanvitelli University.
For the year 2025, the 'Vanvitelli Orienta' event will be held on April 10 and 11, 2025. During these two days the Degree Courses will be presented, it will be possible for students to meet professors, ask for information on the main exams, career opportunities, benefits, scholarships, etc.
Course Overview
The degree course in Nursing aims to train health professionals able to analyze, plan and manage any care path, and able to interact with the other members of the health team. The use of the English and the study of Italian to promote a process of cultural integration in the territory, represents an important way of communication with a foreign population resident in the Campania Region that increasingly asks for access to university in order to improve their quality of life.
The course is divided into three years and is composed of a didactic part, in which the student learns the main pathologies and how to provide health care and of a practical internship activity, with increasing degrees of involvement and complexity, which prepares the student to manage any welfare problem concerning the individual or the community.
Job opportunities:
With nursing degree it’s possible to be employed in any public or private health facility with the professional profile of nurse. It is also possible to continue studies with the achievement of a master's degree with the acquisition of a higher level of competence. It’s also possible to participate in the admission tests for training courses for secondary education, or to practice the profession independently.