ITALY lacks 50.000 nurses . And’ what emerges in this first day of 2020, the year in which the Who has decided to celebrate the work of nurses and midwives, but also the difficult conditions that these professionals often have to deal with. To remember him in a note, the national Federation of the orders of the nursing professions. According to the data of Who nurses and midwives represent almost 50% of the health workforce globally, but in the world the shortage of nurses and midwives is equal to more than 50% of the current shortage of health workers. The Who for all countries to reach the goal 3 for sustainable development in the field of health and wellness, estimates that the world will need another 9 million nurses and midwives by 2030. In Italy, the deficiency calculated by the national Federation of the orders of the nursing professions (Fnopi) is about 50 nurses with the effects of “Quota 100” may exceed 70 thousand (more than 30 thousand are missing on the territory).
For this at the international level underlines the need for an increased investment in nurse workforce and the world health organization and its partners will encourage governments, with the key messages that relate to the profession in the context of an overall improvement of care at the level of all Countries.
According to the Who, a nurse workforce strong is the key to the achievement of universal health coverage and the world health Organization supports that adjust in the world of nurses to international standards has an economic sense, it helps to save resources by reducing the need for costly and unnecessary and increases the quality of care and ‘health for all’. In 2020, the world health organization and partners have the objective of ensuring that all nurses operate in an environment where they are safe from harm, respected by colleagues, doctors and members of the community, to have access to a health service is working and where their work is integrated with other health care professionals.
The strengthening of the nursing care will have the additional advantages of promoting gender equity (goal of health SDG5), contribute to the economic development (SDG8), and support other objectives of sustainable development. “Nurses – emphasizes The Who – can be the answer to many health problems in the world, but first we must overcome the barriers of professional, socio-cultural, economic and even, in many cases, impede them”. The national Federation of the orders of the nurses, in Italy, will celebrate the 12 may 2020, the international day of the nurse, in Florence, the city of the birth of Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing and considered to be in the world a forerunner of the assistance, prevention and statistics applied to health: in the Crimean war, thanks to his intervention and his theories, it reduced the mortality of british soldiers from 42% to 2% with a greater hygiene and a better service.
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