Nurses began the legislative course with a very important challenge in primary care and assistance to patients with chronic diseases.

Spain, 2011-August The Valencia Council of nursing (CECOVA) and the professional schools of nursing in Valencia, Castellón and Alicante held on 20 July at 14: 00 at the Westin Valencia Hotel a symbolic act of beginning of the VIII legislature, which was marked by empowerment of nursing professionals in the attention teamsn primary and in assistance to patients with chronic diseases.

The Act promoted by the Organization College of nursing of the Comunitat Valenciana, which was held for the first time, consisted of a food counted with the presence of the Minister of health, Luis Rosado, and his predecessor, Manuel Cervera, who received a plaque in appreciation of the support given to the collective of nursing during the eight years in the Ministry of health.

The food served to initiate the VIII legislature which, with Luis Rosado at the head of the Ministry of health, boosted the figure of professional nursing in the strategic plans of this legislature in key areas of primary care teams and care for patients with chronic diseases.

In the coming years of nursing professionals will increase its role within the team of primary care, which is responsible for the training and information the patient, scheduled and urgent ambulatory and home care and the elaboration of a plan of care form programmed with unity of home hospitalization.

Throughout the parliamentary term, the Ministry expected to extend to the rest of the regional health care network health departments the figures of the nurse manager of cases and the liaison nurse between care specialist and primary, which now already operate in five departments (General de Castellón, Alicante, Elche, Requena and faith).

The role of the nurse case manager is the commissioning of the follow-up of the patient, the resolution of doubts and the coordination of all health care resources. In particular, nurse case manager makes the daily telephone follow-up of patients, completing the monitoring sheet with information provided by the patient, which is provided with a kit with devices for the taking of constants and its transmission via mobile phone or by Internet.

Thanks to Manuel Cervera

In addition, the collective of nursing took Act to thank former Minister Manuel Cervera on the abandonment of their responsibilities at the head of the Ministry of health which has been linked in the last two legislatures in various responsibilities at the head of the Directorate-General for quality and patient care; later, in the Autonomous Secretariat for health, and finally as Minister for the past four years. For this reason, Cervera received a commemorative plaque at the end of the Act.

The event counted with the presence of the President of the CECOVA, José Antonio Avila, and the Presidents of the colleges of nursing in Valencia, Castellón and Alicante, Juan José Tirado, Francisco partners and Bethlehem Payá, respectively, as well as representatives of the two teachers of nursing units, unions of nursing and the various addresses of nursing of concerted and public health centres in the region of Valencia.