Rome, 11 Oct. (Adnkronos Salute) – “In this context of development of nursing knowledge” it is “useful to establish the nursing assistant, a figure that serves the evolution of the nursing profession”. This was stated by Margrieta Langins, Nursing and Midwifery Advisor at the World Health Organization-Europe, analyzing the Italian situation, participating in the round table that closed the event 'Challenges and priorities of the nursing profession in Europe and in the world' promoted by Fnopi, National Federation of Nursing Orders and Professions, today in Rome, at the Auditorium of the Ministry of Health. At the event, which in fact saw the participation of the World Health Organization, Langins committed to strengthening collaboration with the Federation and Cersi, Center of Excellence for Research and Development of Nursing, established by the Federation in this mandate.
In his speech, Americo Cicchetti, Director General of Planning at the Ministry of Health, stressed the importance of "exploiting skills to change the organization. We must work on this together with the nursing and healthcare professions in general. My Directorate and the Ministry - he assured - are fully available to collaborate on this and other fronts that Fnopi deems appropriate". Cicchetti, who with Fnopi and the Cersi Research Center has started a close collaboration in terms of support for nursing research, especially in performance measurement, stated that, "as a ministry, we aim to respond to the need to implement organizational integration that allows us to reconnect the hospital and the territory, therefore between acute care activities and primary care activities to be strengthened. And in this, the role of the healthcare professions is fundamental, from a management point of view".
Today's event concludes a 2-day international meeting that began yesterday, October 10, with the second edition of the International Congress of Nursing Regulators organized by Fnopi, which brought together in Rome the representatives of numerous nursing orders from Europe and the world. "These were 2 important days - comments Fnopi president Barbara Mangiacavalli - that pave the way for an increasingly profitable relationship with the European Region of the World Health Organization and with the regulatory bodies of international nursing professions. A path that aims to share the same language, build data and raise awareness among institutions regarding the needs of the nursing profession. We need to collaborate as we have begun to do, to take a strong position towards Europe and make the weight of the regulatory bodies felt more with the aim of obtaining important results for professionals and - she concludes - for citizens who ask for assistance".