The SCE3 supports the College of education special Tomàs Llàcer from Alcoi (Alicante) in its request for a full time school nurse

Alicante, 2011-October the Spanish scientific society of nursing school (SCE3) supported yesterday publicly the claim of the public College of education special (EEC) Tomàs Llàcer from Alcoi (Alicante), with a total of 40 pupils and serves the counties of l ’ Alcoià and the ComtatIt has been requested to the Ministry of health a full-time nursing school professional staffing to meet the health needs of students with various functional plurideficiencias.

Eastern way, the President of the SCE3, sea Ortiz sailing, considered sensible and reasonable ” the request repeatedly made by the management of the public school, the School Board and the Association of mothers and fathers of students (AMPA) to the Ministry of health as soon as possible provide the school with a professional nursing school.

In this sense, Ortiz said that the continuous presence of a nurse specializing in special education schools is essential for the special health care needs of pupils between those who are from students with tetraplegia with probe gavage which requires feeding, hydration, and medication via enteral administrationup traqueotomizados, and various students who suffer seizures ”.

Thus, the President of the SCE3 warned that the absence of a nursing professional trained to respond to this type of care journals and emergencies that, sometimes, can cause the life of the student to run a serious danger, not should continue producing this kind of centres ”.
Addition, warned authorities that this situation contravenes ” law 8/2008, health rights of children and adolescents, which obliges all the centres of special education of the community with a nursing school, which must be present full-time professional complete to meet the students ”.

Sea Ortiz indicated that the past June 26 was the third anniversary of the publication of the law 8/2008 of health rights of the child and teenager, whose article 10.4 indicates: specific special education schools will be equipped with nursing personnel, organically depending on the corresponding Health Department ”.

Tasks of health

Finally, the President of the SCE3 lamented the current situation as without the presence of a health professional educators own teachers are forced to perform health work for which they are not qualified and which are not within its competence, and on other occasions, are forced to claim the presence of the parents to administer doses of medication or feed by sawto parenteral students with more severe pathologies ”.