Manuele Cesare
He graduated in Nursing from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (UCSC) in Rome and obtained both his Master’s Degree in Nursing and Midwifery Sciences and his PhD in Nursing and Public Health at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He is currently an Assistant Professor in General, Clinical, Pediatric, Obstetric-Gynecological and Neonatal Nursing Sciences (MEDS-24/C) at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of UCSC.
He has developed solid clinical expertise at the A. Gemelli University Hospital Foundation IRCCS, working in high-acuity settings such as respiratory intensive care, COVID-19 intensive care, interventional pulmonology, interventional cardiology and invasive diagnostics, and cardiac electrophysiology.
He later continued his academic path as a Research Fellow at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, collaborating with the Center of Excellence for Nursing Scholarship (CECRI) of OPI Rome and with the Center of Excellence for Nursing Research and Development (CERSI) of FNOPI. He subsequently joined the A. Gemelli University Hospital Foundation IRCCS within the Professional Area of the Nursing, Technical and Rehabilitation Services (SITRA), contributing to the advancement of clinical, organizational, and research processes in nursing practice.
His research focuses on nursing complexity, the Nursing Minimum Data Set, standardized nursing terminologies, clinical information systems and clinical decision support systems, care delivery organizational models, and health literacy. Through the analysis of structured clinical data, his work aims to enhance the visibility and value of the nursing contribution by highlighting the relationships between nursing complexity, medical complexity, and health outcomes.
He is a Nurse Leader of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (ΣΘΤ), Indianapolis (USA), and a member of national and international scientific societies including the Italian Society of Nursing Sciences (SISI) and the Association for Common European Nursing Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes (ACENDIO). He is also a Regular Member of the Italian Society of Pediatric Nursing (SIPINF), an Associate Member of the European Specialist Nurses Organisation (ESNO), and collaborates with NANDA International as a co-author and diagnostic reviewer.
He teaches in Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programs at UCSC, with courses in clinical and preventive nursing, research methodology, outcome evaluation, and the development of critical thinking and clinical reasoning, including within Master’s degree curricula. He also serves as Adjunct Professor at UniCamillus – Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences, where he teaches Clinical Nursing Critical Care in the Bachelor of Nursing program and coordinates the integrated course Nursing in Emergency Medicine and Surgery and Critical Care.
He is the author of numerous publications in indexed, peer-reviewed international journals and serves as a reviewer for more than fifty scientific journals, including the Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Pediatric Nursing, International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances, BMC Nursing, Frontiers in Public Health, and npj Health Systems (Nature). He is a member of the Editorial Board of Nursing Reports and of the Editorial Committee of the Italian Society of Pediatric Nursing (SIPINF).
He has presented his research at national and international conferences as an invited speaker, receiving recognition for the impact of his scientific contributions in the pediatric field.