A cultural meta-analysis for post Covid-19 times. The professional and human experience of the still ongoing emergency which has transformed the structure itself of the lives of world countries has generated a very large and fragmented spectrum of mainly descriptive and narrative publications (from inside the professions involved, as well as on the impact of the pandemia on the society) which defy any tentative of comprehensive understanding. This contribution proposes the results of an

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... possibly provocative, metanalytic approach adapted to assess the existence, if any, of general evidences which could be assumed as a take home message of the heterogeneous, highly rich, mainly qualitative materials which have been produced so far: on the care aspects of the pandemia as well as on its more general significance for and impact on the society. The predefined biases and limitations of this approach (defined as cultural, i.e.which tries to provide an overall picture beyond the details) are declared to introduce and justify the outcome results of the exercise: a series of keywords is presented and commented as a guide into the future of a nursing profession ready and willing to have a more autonomous and innovative professional identity in the health care scenario and in the society.