“Like every May 12th, we are ready to celebrate this anniversary because it is very heartfelt for us. It’s just a shame that the institutions don’t seem to realize the real need for nurses in Italy and the fact that, if there are fewer and fewer of them, it is only due to the lack of valorisation of this profession.” The national secretary of Nursind, Andrea Bottega, declared this in a note, in view of the International Nurses Day which will be celebrated on Sunday.
“The category is tired of pats on the back – he states – and rightly demands first and foremost salaries adequate for the grueling workloads it is forced to face in order to make up for staff shortages. A situation that is even more serious considering that the majority of nurses are women. This year, among other things – Bottega points out – our anniversary coincides with Mother’s Day precisely from a survey by our Study Center, conducted in the last week on almost 2 thousand nurses, of which approximately 80% with. at least one child, it emerges that as many as 53% of professional mothers have given up on abstention from night work, which they are entitled to in the first 3 years of the child’s life, only for economic reasons , 28% of them do without parental leave.”
Secretary Nursind adds: “On the pensions front, we opposed until the end the innovations introduced in the past maneuver which, in addition to penalizing precisely those professionals who spent the most during the pandemic, further discourage young people from embarking on a career nursing”. Then the thrust: “At this point, given that we are in the midst of negotiations and that a new budget law is now upon us, we cannot allow ourselves to be ignored. It would be like throwing salt on a wound that is still open and we will not allow it. If it is true, as the Government claims, that its objective is to defend public health – concludes Bottega – start doing so by keeping close to its nurses and attracting new recruits through the recognition, including economic, of advanced skills and greater professional autonomy” .
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