Introduction: The "Fundamentals of Care" (FoC) represent a cornerstone of nursing care, focused on meeting patients’ physical, psychosocial, and relational needs.
Previous nursing studies have explored advocacy from several perspectives, including examining its definition, analyzing the concept, developing theory based on concept analysis, and developing scales to assess advocacy in practice.
The structure of the management of healthcare professions in the prevention area currently appears not uniform at Italian national level, both in terms of the allocation of these professionals and concerning the role covered in the Local Health Authorities.