[Tutors and assistants for apprenticeship for students in the university diploma course in nursing science]

The article presents the results of a work carried out by a group of nurses dealing with nursing education, both graduate (Hospital School and then University) and post graduate, since about ten years. The Authors have defined role, functions, spheres of activity, hierarchic and functional relationships, qualifications and abilities of the two new professional figures quoted in the document agreed between Lombardia Region and Lombardia Universities about the new university diploma courses in Nursing Sciences: the tutor and the clinical instructor. In order to do such a work the Authors started from the literature review. They also tried to use the didactic and teaching experience gained by the nursing School of Varese since 1956 and the contemporary beginning of the University course since 1992.