Isabelle Ballabio-Messina, recently graduated from SUPSI in Nursing, won the first prize in the second edition of the competition for nurses named in memory of Mimi Bonetti Lepori, the historic president of the Associazione Cliniche Private Ticinesi (ACPT), with her final work on the topic “L’alimentazione degli infermieri in Ticino: i fattori influenzanti le loro scelte alimentari e la promozione di una sana alimentazione al paziente” - thesis supervisor: Loris Bonetti.

In second and third place were two other recent SUPSI graduates: Laura Bormolini, with a study on “Demenza: Interventi infermieristici a sostegno del paziente e del suo caregiver nel processo decisionale condiviso” - thesis supervisor: Laura Canduci, and Mattia Mascia with a work on “Nursing e prevenzione del melanoma: un’indagine quantitativa sulle competenze cliniche degli infermieri in Canton Ticino” - thesis supervisor: Sabina Sinardi (third place ex-aequo with Samuele Mascaro, SSSCI graduate).

The award-winners were selected by the Jury chaired by Giancarlo Dillena (ACPT president) and composed of Christian Camponovo (Gruppo Ospedaliero Moncucco), Fabio Rezzonico (Swiss Medical Network), Nicola Martinelli (Clinica Viarnetto), Valérie De Rosa (Clinica Santa Croce), Martin Gilgen (Clinica Varini), Anna Piccaluga Piatti (SUPSI) and Paolo Barro (Scuola Specializzata Superiore in Cure Infermieristiche).

The prizes will be presented to the winners on 26 March at a public ceremony in the Auditorium of the Università della Svizzera Italiana.