Luca Bertocchi is an Italian nurse, PhD candidate in ‘Clinical Medicine and Public health’ at L'Aquila University; he is currently a Pre-doctoral Scholar in The Marjory Gordon Program at Connell School of Nursing, Boston College (USA). He started his nursing career as student at the University of Trieste in 2011 where he obtained his BSN and, he had a 3-month clinical experience at Oulu (Finland). Then he worked as registered nurse for 2 years at St George’s Hospital (London, UK). After returning to Italy, he has been working as nurse in Onco-hematological Department at Maggiore Hospital (Trieste). He obtained his MSN degree at the University of Ferrara where he continued to pursue his interest in Standardized Nursing Terminologies (SNTs) with the participation in the ‘Caring Model Project’ at the Local Health Unit of Modena. His vision for the future is to make nursing visible, give voice to nurses, change the delivery in patient care countrywide and beyond using a personalized approach that can make the difference in all health care settings both in Italy and globally. His doctoral project is focused on the impact of using SNTs on patients and organizational outcomes for which he received a grant from NANDA Foundation. Furthermore, he is working on enhancing nursing teaching using informatics tools for improve nursing assessment, clinical reasoning, and decision making by nursing students. Research fields: SNTs, Simulation, Oncology, and Nutrition.