[Degrees for nursing leaders. Possible strategies]

The three conditions existing for the establishment of a Nursing Science Degree, analysed in this article, are pointed out as the ones on which relies the urgent request of getting a Nursing Science degree, put forward by the nursing profession. They are: 1) The existence of a Nursing Science 2) Nursing care is now carried out in systems with a complex organization 3) A Nursing degree is requested by the Health Institutions to be admitted to leadership. This aim has not yet been achieved only owing to the political, institutional and professional Italian turbulences.