Gianluca Catania started his academic career at the University of Genoa (Italy) in 2014, and ever since, in addition to all his teaching commitments, he has conducted many research studies and projects in the field of healthcare quality and safety, and palliative and cancer nursing care, with a history of over 90 publications in peer reviewed journals. In particular, he started conducting research in direct connection with the RN4CAST International Consortium in 2015 and has since then conducted several funded national research projects on topics specifically related to nurse staffing, nurse-patient ratios, skill-mix and missed care. In relation to these topics, he has built and maintained long-standing contacts and collaborated with renown international experts in this field. Especially in the last 5 years, Gianluca Catania has focused his work on exploring the association between essential missed nursing care, nurse staffing ratios, patient safety, and nurses’ job satisfaction. Gianluca Catania is a Fulbright Scholar and Associate Professor at the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Genoa and Senior Fellow at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania (USA).
