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Italian for Nurses: Language Preparation for Nursing Practice in Italy

What you will learn

  • Communicate in Italian during patient interviews, handovers, and clinical teamwork.
  • Prepare for Italian language evaluations linked to OPI registration, diploma recognition, and employer selection procedures.
  • Use nursing-specific terminology and the formal register expected in Italian healthcare institutions.
  • Understand and produce written Italian used in care reports, patient records, protocols, and instructions.

Who is this course for?

  • Nurses trained outside Italy who want to practise their profession in Italian healthcare institutions.
  • EU and non-EU healthcare professionals required to prove Italian language competence for employment.
  • Nurses with an A2+ level of Italian who need to reach B1 or B2 for professional and institutional use (students starting from A1 have access to our Italian A1 course).
  • Foreign nurses who have subscribed to the local OPI and would like to practice their Italian to prepare for the language test.

This course in short

  • You are prepared to meet Italian language requirements for nursing recognition and employment.
  • You train practical and institutional skills aligned with the OPI tests: patient communication, documentation, and professional interaction.
  • Learning combines a structured online learning programme with targeted one-to-one conversation classes.
  • Course materials are based on authentic Italian healthcare communication, adapted to your CEFR level.
  • A flexible, profession-oriented Italian course designed for safe nursing practice and professional integration.

Pricing

1 Learning goals
2 Select your course plan
3 Start your course

Study independently with full access to the learning portal.

Access Per month Total Discount
1 month €14.99 €14.99 —
3 months €8.00 €24.00 -47%
6 months €5.75 €34.50 -62%
12 months €3.79 €45.48 -75%

Writing feedback on your assignments.

Structured lessons with native audio and video.

Parallel audio to practise listening and pronunciation.

See what to review next based on your mistakes.
1 Get to know your teacher
2 Discuss your schedule
3 Start your lessons

You study in the portal at your own pace. Your teacher gives weekly guidance, answers questions, and practises conversation with you.

We recommend 12 hours of live classes per level, with 3 months of self-study.

Choose a package type: 12 hours if you mainly self-study, 24 hours if you want more motivation and less daily self-study, or 48 hours if you prefer learning mainly with your teacher.

Buy only the class hours you need—credits stay valid for one year. Each conversation class includes a self-study license for the learning portal.

Includes all from self-study

  • Full self-study access to the learning portal
  • AI corrections, audio, video and personalized report
  • Weekly conversation practice with a professional teacher
  • Study online as much as you want between classes

Blended learning packages

One level takes about 3 months of self-study. Compare package types for live class hours and estimated daily self-study.

Package type Live classes Estimated self-study Price
Regular

One conversation class per week. A good balance if you like steady self-study with weekly speaking practice.

 12 x 60 minutes 30 minutes/day ± €283
Conversation

Two conversation classes per week. Choose this when you want more live guidance and less daily self-study.

 24 x 60 minutes 15 minutes/day ± €567
Intensive

Four conversation classes per week. For learners who prefer to study mainly with a teacher.

 48 x 60 minutes Optional ± €1,134

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Estimated course price based on 1 class per week over 12 weeks. You can buy more or fewer hours anytime.

Letizia D.

Letizia D.

Laurea Triennale in Lingue e Letterature Straniere

  • 4.96/5

± €276

1 class/week · 12 weeks

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Daniela V.

Daniela V.

Laurea Magistrale

  • 4.96/5

± €180

1 class/week · 12 weeks

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Nancy C.

Nancy C.

Proficiency English Certificate

  • 4.93/5

± €300

1 class/week · 12 weeks

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Monica L.

Monica L.

Laurea Magistrale in Storia e Critica dell'Arte

  • 5/5

± €420

1 class/week · 12 weeks

Start this course with Monica L.
Credits valid for 1 year
Flexible scheduling
24-hour cancellation policy

Learning method

Video and audio lessons shown on desktop
1

Practice all skills

Learn with audio, video and AI corrections to practice speaking, reading, listening and writing.

Speaking Reading Listening Writing
2

Audio training

Listen at normal or slow speed, with or without translations.

Ebook and PDF worksheets
3

Offline ebook

Download lessons as ebook and PDF for offline study.

Ebook & PDF

Course book

  • Ebook included for free
  • Printed book available in bookshops
  • Available in multiple languages, with course license
  • Ideal to support multilingual classrooms

Full access to the coLanguage App is included with all our courses. Try it for free!

Curriculum

Profession-specific modules to combine with any level course (A1–B2).

Learning objectives

  • Talk about your educational background
  • Describe your workplace and its departments
  • Explaining hospital equipment and navigating hospitals
  • Vocabulary: Hospital departments, wards and rooms, equipment, workwear and footwear

Learning objectives

  • Describing your daily tasks, responsibilities and working hours
  • Describe shift work and teamwork
  • Describe hospital organisation and planning
  • Vocabulary: shift planning and rota scheduling

Learning objectives

  • Noticing changes in conditions and behaviour
  • Accurately measure and record vital signs
  • Report any unusual observations to your supervisor.
  • Vocabulary: Observation terminology (colour, texture, temperature, quantity), vital signs, documentation terms, breathing, pulse, level of consciousness

Learning objectives

  • Read and write short care reports
  • Ask about the patient’s condition
  • Use clear, factual reporting language
  • Vocabulary: reporting templates, administrative terms, clinical report language, patient status terminology

Learning objectives

  • Participate in multidisciplinary meetings
  • Share your views
  • Understanding other professionals’ roles
  • Healthcare job titles and hierarchy, and roles within multidisciplinary teams

Learning objectives

  • Follow hygiene and safety procedures.
  • Describe measures to prevent infections
  • Describe your duties during an epidemic or pandemic
  • Hygiene, infection prevention, protective clothing, hand hygiene, cleaning procedures, waste segregation and recycling in healthcare

Learning objectives

  • Describe skin condition, wounds and hygiene
  • Identify the signs of pressure ulcers (bedsores) and report them.
  • Vocabulary: skin condition, wounds, pressure ulcers, risk factors, pressure points, skin assessment terminology

Learning objectives

  • Recognising conditions such as diabetes, COPD, dementia and Parkinson’s disease
  • Adjust care based on symptoms and treatment plans
  • Recognise the symptoms of left- and right-sided heart failure (decompensation) and rheumatic diseases
  • Chronic conditions, flare-ups vs stable symptoms, heart failure (left-sided/right-sided), rheumatic conditions

Learning objectives

  • Asking about daily routines (sleep, diet, mobility)
  • Encourage patients to do light exercise
  • Support mobility
  • Vocabulary: Personal care, daily routines, body functions, fall prevention

Learning objectives

  • Recognising the symptoms of a stroke or injury
  • Describe a rehabilitation plan.
  • Taking part in appraisal meetings
  • Support safe repositioning, transfers and use of mobility aids
  • Vocabulary: rehabilitation, physiotherapy, mobility, assistive devices, stroke symptoms, recovery goals, assessment terminology, repositioning, bed mobility, transfer techniques

Learning objectives

  • Recognising incidents and aggressive behaviour
  • Report and document them correctly
  • Use de-escalation strategies
  • Respond confidently to basic emergencies such as hypoglycaemia, seizures, allergic reactions and shock
  • Vocabulary: managing aggression, incident reporting, de-escalation strategies, conflict management, safety terminology, hypoglycaemia/hyperglycaemia, epileptic seizures, allergic reactions, shock, AED awareness

Learning objectives

  • Discuss the patient’s wishes about end-of-life care
  • Offering condolences and emotional support
  • Respect cultural and religious differences
  • Palliative care, hospices, death and religion, emotions, empathy, condolence language

Learning objectives

  • Explaining prescription and over-the-counter medicines
  • Give clear dosage instructions
  • Reading and interpreting medicine information leaflets
  • Dosage, pharmacology basics, packaging symbols, waste disposal and administration instructions

Learning objectives

  • Identifying eating and swallowing problems
  • Complete the list of fluids or foods
  • Monitor hydration levels and understand basic fluid balance (intake/output)
  • Healthy diet, aspiration prevention, feeding aids, dietary restrictions, dysphagia terminology, fluid balance, intake/output (I/O), signs of dehydration, hydration monitoring

Learning objectives

  • Describe meals and dietary requirements
  • Discuss preferences and adapt menus for special dietary requirements
  • Vocabulary: meals and drinks in healthcare settings, diabetes-related diet vocabulary, nutrition for chronic conditions, menu adaptations

Learning objectives

  • Supporting urination and bowel movements (using a bedpan or urinal)
  • Practise good hygiene when caring for someone with incontinence
  • Record the colour, consistency and volume of urine/faeces
  • Secretions, urination/defecation, continence care, urinals and bedpans, personal hygiene, describing colour/consistency/quantity

Learning objectives

  • Organise activities with local residents
  • Holidays and social events
  • Joining in family chats and get-togethers
  • Vocabulary for social events, parties, informal chats, family gatherings and celebrations

Learning objectives

  • Describing informal care and family roles
  • How to support volunteers
  • Fill in the home care paperwork
  • Vocabulary: family roles, relationships, informal care, voluntary support, home care records

Learning objectives

  • Recognising the symptoms of schizophrenia, psychotic disorders and severe mental illness
  • Communicating effectively with clients experiencing hallucinations, delusions or confusion
  • Supporting customers with intellectual disabilities and neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g. Rett syndrome)
  • Schizophrenia, psychosis, hallucinations, delusions, intellectual disability, Rett syndrome, seizure warning signs

Learning objectives

  • Apply the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) and other pain assessment tools, including non-verbal indicators of pain
  • Describe the WHO classification system and Gordon’s functional health patterns
  • Explain Machteld Huber’s “Positive Health” model and the Content–Process–Interaction–Sustenance levels.
  • Use the SBARR method to structure your communication
  • Vocabulary: NRS, pain assessment tools, the WHO analgesic ladder, Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns, Positive Health, SBARR, assessment terminology, non-verbal indicators of pain

Learning objectives

  • Identify common classes of medicines, such as beta-blockers, and explain their effects and risks.
  • Choosing the safest intramuscular (IM) injection site based on age and muscle mass
  • Recognising the signs of malnutrition and supporting clients who are struggling to stick to their diet
  • Vocabulary: beta-blockers, intramuscular injection sites (deltoid, ventrogluteal, vastus lateralis), signs of malnutrition, dietary adherence

Learning objectives

  • Preparing patients for surgery, including fasting, hygiene and transport guidelines
  • Providing emotional and physical support to patients before, during and after surgery
  • Explain the difference between sedation, anaesthesia and palliative sedation.
  • Vocabulary: pre-operative checklist, anaesthesia, palliative sedation, sterile field, post-operative care terminology

Learning objectives

  • Getting to know support services and key contacts
  • Distinguish between inpatient and outpatient care
  • Explaining home care and community-based support services
  • healthcare services (GPs, care homes), referrals, inpatient and outpatient care, home care, community care, insurance

Learning objectives

  • Learning to use new hygiene materials and technologies
  • Safely apply ergonomic techniques
  • Describe preventative nursing interventions (falls, thrombosis)
  • care equipment, ergonomic techniques, personal care aids, preventive care, mobility belts, non-slip materials

Learning objectives

  • Communicating with clients from different cultures
  • Supporting residents with hearing loss or memory problems
  • Cultural differences, communication styles, hearing or memory issues, and supportive communication strategies

Learning objectives

  • Handling ethical dilemmas in day-to-day nursing practice
  • Apply the principles of privacy, autonomy and respect when interacting with patients.
  • Follow professional standards, values and legal requirements
  • Privacy, autonomy, respect, professional norms and values, legal standards, quality of care

Conversation classes

Start with self-study and switch to a teacher when you are ready.

Start with self-study

  • Study independently in the learning portal
  • AI corrections, audio and video
  • Switch to a teacher later when you are ready

Conversation classes with a teacher

Teachers set their own prices

  • Recommended course plan: 12 weeks
  • 12 conversation classes
  • Includes full self-study in the portal
Contact a teacher

All levels

Includes access to all levels

Italian A1
Italian A1
Italian A2
Italian A2
Italian B1
Italian B1

Why +10k learners have chosen already coLanguage?

Feature coLanguage Informal tutoring Learning apps
Personalized tasks and hand-ins

Your teacher sets personalized tasks—and the app adapts exercises to your level and the areas you find hardest.

Learning portal

Study online or offline with PDF downloads, interactive exercises, audio, video, and AI-powered writing feedback.

Structured learning paths

Follow clear paths from A1 to C1, plus professional courses tailored to your goals.

Conversation classes

Every teacher is personally screened and trained to teach with our learning portal—so your classes match your course and progress.

Offline worksheets (PDF, translated)

Download the full e-book as PDF, or print any lesson as a translated worksheet.

Quality guarantee

We partner with universities and align every course with official learning programs—for reliable, recognized learning.

Learn with real content (news, podcasts…)

Practice with real news articles and podcasts—immersive content that prepares you for everyday language.

Full-skill training: listening, reading, writing, speaking

Train all four skills: listening and pronunciation with audio, reading with authentic texts, writing with AI feedback, and speaking in your classes.

Course materials trusted by official libraries and bookshops

Our books are sold in bookshops across Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Austria, and beyond—and approved by public libraries.

Academic collaboration with universities

Course plans are co-developed from our Valencian office with multiple European universities.

Student reviews of our Italian lessons

  • 4.7/5
4.7 out of 5 based on 12 ratings

Preparing for an exam while working full time. Audio with translation makes revision realistic on short breaks.

Rachel E.
Helsinki, Finland
Self-study
  • 4.4/5

Clear structure from A1 upward. AI corrections in the portal save time; I still work through the printed units.

Claire D.
Lyon, France
Blended learning
  • 4.2/5

Social life improved once I could follow meetings in Italian. The portal exercises are short; the book gives depth.

David R.
Berlin, Germany
Blended learning
  • 4.8/5

Our partners

We thank our partners for the support we receive for developing our online school.

We proudly work with Lanzadera, a Spanish accelerator program in Valencia.

The university of Siegen helps us to develop and design our education systems and programs.

Our IT systems are powered and supported by the Google Cloud team

We collaborate with universities all across the European Union to develop our course materials, thanks to the Erasmus+ Program.