The inclusion of the 345,000 Spanish nurses in a unified Group A and the relevant changes in the Medicine Law to standardize the prescription of nursing care are some of the issues that the president of the General Nursing Council (CGE), Florentino Pérez Raya, analyzed with the Secretary of State for Health, Javier Padilla, during a meeting held at the Ministry of Health.
The president of the CGE and his team transferred Padilla, accompanied by his advisor on the matter, nurse Paloma Callejaa series of concerns and problems that affect the profession. In addition, unfair professional classification and indication of drugs by the largest healthcare group, a measure common in many advanced countries and which accelerates healthcare and provides better care to patients, also responded to other requests, among which the amount of missing nurses in Spain -125,000just to touch the European average-; the psychological impact of this great health pressure or the inaction of Public Administrations with regard to nursing specialties and the development of accreditation and advanced accreditation diplomas.
For the president of the General Council of Nurses, there is “harmony with the Ministry of Health in the diagnosis of nursing problems and the treatment they require. The objectives are aligned. They are aware of the nursing community’s discomfort with certain historical injustices and obstacles to their professional development and share the concern about the negative impact on Spanish health of this lack of nurses in the present and in the future. The outstanding issues are well underway and it appears that some measures can be put in place to resolve some of these endemic issues. At the beginning of the year there may be news in a certain sense and we have confidence in the officials of the ministry and the work they are doing in the field of nursing with their team of collaborators.
Fatigue and pressure on healthcare
THE nurses of our country, as demonstrated by the surveys recently presented by the CGE, express great fed up with the denigration that arouses the assignment to a professional group – the A2 – which corresponds to them neither by training nor by responsibility. They apply for a unified group A, just like other healthcare professionals and non-caregivers holding a baccalaureate. On the other hand, the saturation of a number of patients impossible to treat with dignity among so few professionals has triggered an increase in anxiety and other symptoms. mental disorders. The situation is pressing in certain autonomous communities and the differences between them represent an intolerable inequity in health care.
The General Council of Nurses, as happened during today’s meeting, “is at the entire disposal of the Ministry of Health to, as has happened in recent months, provide its full collaboration to ensure that it is soon possiblesolve problems This has been going on for too long in Spanish nursing. If the situation does not change, we will live in a health system incapable of responding to the care of an aging population suffering from chronic pathologies like ours,” says Pérez Raya.
