From declared competence to recognized competence: specialized master’s degrees and the systemic challenge for critical care nursing
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Under Ministerial Decree No. 159 of February 6, 2026, the LM/SNT1 master’s degree program was divided into two sections: Nursing and Midwifery Sciences, and Specialized Nursing Sciences. The latter is in turn divided into three tracks: Primary Care and Family and Community Nursing, Neonatal and Pediatric Care, and Intensive Care and Emergency Care.1 Decree No. 177 of February 25, 2026, adopted in consultation with the Ministry of Health, simultaneously revised the three-year degree program L/SNT1. 2 More than thirty years after nursing education was introduced into universities—initiated by Legislative Decree 502/1992,3—clinical specialization thus enters the second cycle of the university system for the first time, rather than remaining confined to first-level master’s programs, to which Law 43/2006 currently links the practice of specialized nursing.4 [...]
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