Loredana Sasso

Loredana Sasso is professor of nursing at the University of Genoa, Italy. She was president of the European Federation of Nursing Regulators (FEPI) Brussels office from 2006 to 2009 during which period she worked on the creation of the Code of Ethics and Conduct for European Nursing.

Sasso is a Registered Nurse with a master's degree from the University of Genoa.

Sassoled the establishment of the first PhD program in nursing in Italy. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Centre of Excellence for Nursing Scholarship in Rome, co-founder (2012) of the Italian Society of Nursing Sciences, a board member of the Foundation Insieme per Vita agli Anniand former board member (1997-2000) and Secretary General (2000-2009) of the Italian National Federation of Nursing (Federazione Nazionale Ordini Professioni Infermieristiche). She established the Italian leg of the RN4CAST study of nursing workforce, patient mortality and nurse retention. Sasso qualified as full professor in scientific disciplines general clinical and paediatric nursing sciences (Sector MED.45) and was appointed a full professor (2018) at the University of Genoa. She is a Member (2015) of the Honor Society of Nursing Sigma Theta Tau International.

Sasso is a Fellow (2016) of the American Academy of Nursing and a Fellow (2017) of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery ad eundem.

Sasso has over 150 academic and professional articles listed on Google Scholar which have been cited over 1,000 times giving her an h-index of 21. Her three top cited articles are:

• Coppola, A; Sasso, L; Bagnasco, A; Giustina, A; Gazzaruso, C (2016). "The role of patient education in the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes: an overview". Endocrine. 53 (1): 18–27. doi:10.1007/s12020-015-0775-7. PMID 26494579.
• Sasso, L; Stievano, A; Gonzalez, M; Jurado, G; Rocco, G (2008). "Code of ethics and conduct for European nursing". Nursing Ethics. 15 (6): 821–836. doi:10.1177/0969733008095390. PMID 18849371.
• Sasso, L; Bagnasco, A; Bianchi, M; Carnevale, F (2016). "Moral distress in undergraduate nursing students: a systematic review". Nursing Ethics. 23 (5): 523–534. doi:10.1177/0969733015574926. PMID 25904547.