The CECOVA calls to the departments of health and education, who maintain the presence of school nurses in the educational system of the Valencian Community.
Avila says that provide special education centres with nurses would have a minimal cost compared to the cost of public infrastructure without use in the community ”.
valencia, June 2012.- the Council of nursing of the Valencian Community (CECOVA) and schools of nursing of Valencia, Castellón y Alicante replied last Tuesday at the departments of health and education, following the meeting of the Joint Commission of school health, than keep ” the presence of professionals of nursing school in the education of the Valencian Community system It is the best guarantee to detect, diagnose and intervene even with agility with possible sensory dysfunctions or generating disability ”.
Faculty does not have trained to do so and should assume the functions of health care and health care that correspond exclusively to health professionals ”, recalled the President of CECOVA, José Antonio Avila, which showed his perplexity ” before the fact of from the Administration not bet more on prevention and advocacy activitieson health in the field of education despite the need to educate the population in habits and healthy behaviors of effectively in practice and not just in theory politically correct speech ”.
Mechanisms of telecare instead of nurses
Regarding the announcement of implementation mechanisms of telecare centres of special education so that teachers can meet the needs of these children’s health, Avila remembered that law 8/2008 of health rights of the child and the adolescent establishes the presence of nursing school in the centres of special education of the Valencian Community is mandatory ”.
The Chairman of the CECOVA recalled that Valencia has a total of 47 schools of special education public and concluded that should necessarily be equipped with school nurses as found article 10.4 of the above-mentioned regional law, but we are faced with a breach of the legislation just 19 per cent of these have by now with professionals from TwinstuffIA and, Furthermore, its continuity is seriously endangered by budget cuts ”. providing special education centres with nurses would have a minimal cost compared to the cost of unused in the Valencian Community public infrastructure ”, said Avila.
Increase healthy habits
In the field of school health, Ãvila agreed with the statements of the Minister of health, Luis Rosado, on the need to promote healthy habits ” in aspects such as the balanced diet, postural hygiene, health promotion, prevention of drug useas well as the traffic accident prevention campaigns.
In this regard, the President of the CECOVA showed their strangeness ” by the fact that are offering a series of research programmes to increase the healthy habits from the CECOVA among the school population free of charge for managing public and, paradoxically, we encounter the selflessness and constraints of the Department of education to allow the development of the activities of school nurses in the public schools ”.
Finally, Ãvila highlighted the importance of prevention in early to combat preventable diseases ” and recalled the broad social demand ” nursing school by the teaching staff, students and associations of parents of pupils (AMPA).
