the CECOVA ensures that Valencia need 2,280 nurses to reach the Spanish media.
-the Organization autonomous College of nursing is especially noted the lack of midwives and nursing Mental health professionals in centres health.
Spain, June of 2011- the Council of nursing in the region of Valencia (CECOVA) and the colleges of nursing in Valencia, Castellón and Alicante ensured that the system health Valencian missing a total of 2,280 professional nurses towards the Spanish nurses per capita, average and highlighted the lack of midwives and nurses in Mental health centres especially health.
CECOVA, José Antonio Avila, President stressed the Comunitat is located at the tail of Spain in the number of nurses just 463 professionals for every 100,000 inhabitants ” which means that a Valencian nurse attends to twice as many patients as a nurse in Navarre with 913 professionals for every 100,000 inhabitants ”. For its part, the national average stands at 531 nurses per 100,000 inhabitants, while the European average is 808.
also recalled, the deficit ” of nursing professionals in the health of the Comunitat Valenciana will get worse with the introduction of the Bologna process and the degree of nursing that in 2012 they will just graduate between 25 and 30 students of nursing because of the adaptation of curricula ”.
as regards the specialty of nursing, the President of the CECOVA criticized the Comunitat Valenciana has with less midwives in training of the accredited by the Ministry of health to do so with the resulting accumulated deficit of midwives in the public health system ”. In addition, nor call the squares of Mental Health in the calls for public employment to work ten nurses specialists in Mental health are formed every year since 1999 ”, regretted.
on the other hand, urged the Valencian Government to implement the law 8/2008, health rights of the child and the adolescent, which requires centres of special education in the region of Valencia the commissioning of an own school nursing service. Avila also demanded that all schools have a nurse, in his view, if investing in children is invested in a country with a more healthy future ”.
in this line, the head of the CECOVA pointed out that to the Ministry of health is making very slow and hesitant steps ” to provide nursing services to special education centres, as established by law 8/2008 of health rights of the child and the adolescent, numerous municipalities bet to extend this service to ensure the medical well-being of schoolchildren ”. Thus, recalled many municipalities as Mutxamel, La Vila Joiosa, Carlet or Benicà ssim, among others, have signed agreements to ensure that schoolchildren have healthcare appropriate.
on the other hand, the President of the CECOVA asked the Health Ministry that move to a specific law protocols of biohazard and follow the path marked by Madrid, Castile – La Mancha, Balearic Islands and Galicia to ensure the safety of health workers against possible infections ”.
with respect to the law of unit, the President of the CECOVA requested the inclusion of nursing professionals in equipment valuation of dependent persons to the Ministry of Social Welfare because, recalled the responsibility of the care is the exclusive competence of the nurses who must not only make plans to care but responsible for the supervision and the tasks that perform other professionals such as the auxiliary ”.
