Primary nursing is a specialty from this year.

III Update seminars, nursing of primary care in the home of the convalescence of Barcelona, 15 and 16 November, organized by the Association of family nursing and community of Catalonia (AIFICC).

-La AIFICC organizes the day update III to improve the response capacity of nurses / ACE of primary care in areas such as: the duel, the approach to help quit smoking, the image of the adolescent disorder, the development of low-calorie diets, domestic violence against older persons, the needs of the patient at the end of life or the interaction of drugs with medicinal plants, among others

Spain, 2011 November- Francisco Cegrí, of the Association of family nursing and community of Catalonia (AIFICC) and President of the Organizing Committee of the III day of update in primary care nursing, considered that “the preparation of nursing in Catalonia and the whole Spain is quite high, with everything from the AIFICC we believe that training is the cornerstone for maintaining this high level and therefore are committed to organize the days of update”, where through basically workshops, put the day nurses / ACE in those health problems and procedures at the consultations of primary “.

“One of the workshops of the day will focus on herbal medicine, namely the use of plants for medicinal purposes. Data presented at the 6th Congress of phytotherapy in Pamplona last month, shows that almost 60% of users of primary care of Barcelona city using medicinal plants. According to the Gemma Baulies teachers, pediatrician and Rosa Maria Torres, nurse “is essential for nurses have knowledge about herbal medicine to not only detect a bad use of medicinal plants, but also also make health education guide the patient towards a proper use of medicinal plants”. The relationship of proximity and continuity over time, which is established between nurses and patients is a suitable framework for this educational and surveillance task can be performed.

The approach to help quit smoking will be another workshops during the day. Indeed the role of primary education in this subject is very important because more than 70% of the population will pass through its Center for primary care to consult a health problem. Recent studies have shown that the intervention of the nurse or family doctor, according to the study protocol increases 50% chances of quitting successfully and long term. Hence the important role of the nurse. In fact, the prevalence of smokers in Catalonia is situated about 28 per cent. This means that on a contingent of 1,500 patients, doctor and nurse are in its consultations with 418 smokers that intervention can do to help them quit smoking. For this reason, the objective of the workshop led by Raquel Buron, family physician, and Anna Gomez Quintero, nurse, is to teach tools to better help patients who want to quit smoking.