Marisa Cantarelli Centre for Studies and Research
Study and research in nursing science
The hummingbird
Its wings beat 12 to 80 (or more) times per second, tracing a figure of eight — also the symbol of infinity.
It is the only bird able to fly backwards, up, down, upside down, and to hover motionless in mid-air.
At rest its heart beats more than 500 times a minute, and can exceed 1,200 under strain.
«The development of nursing research rests on building a nursing discipline with a specific object of study, a clear conceptual framework, a body of knowledge of its own and university education up to doctoral level.»
Marisa Cantarelli Centre for Studies and Research
Study and research in nursing science
The Marisa Cantarelli Centre for Studies and Research was established to study, enhance and further develop the scientific and cultural legacy of Marisa Cantarelli, the first Italian theorist of nursing care and the author of the Nursing Care Performance Model.
The Centre aims to serve as a meeting point between the memory and the future of the nursing discipline: a space in which Cantarelli’s thinking can be studied in its authentic sources, examined in the light of the new healthcare needs of the population, developments in scientific knowledge, and used as a reference point for addressing contemporary transformations in care, education, healthcare organisation and research.
With this in mind, the Centre seeks to promote scientific exchange at an international level, fostering collaboration with universities, research centres, scientific societies and scholars from other countries. Its aim is to situate Marisa Cantarelli’s theoretical contribution within the broader international debate on the development of the nursing discipline, placing it in dialogue with theoretical models, frameworks and research programmes developed in different cultural and healthcare contexts, and promoting its recognition and dissemination beyond national borders.
Cantarelli’s legacy is regarded as a living scientific tradition, capable of generating new research questions, fostering national and international collaborations, and engaging with some of the major challenges facing healthcare today: chronic conditions, ageing, community-based care, clinical and care complexity, digitalisation, artificial intelligence, new organisational models, and the development of nursing competencies.
«Research is the instrument through which the profession must demonstrate the content of the nursing discipline, and why that content belongs to nurses.»
The Centre is promoted by the University of Genoa.