the Ministry of Comprehensive Health and Public Health Offered starting tomorrow at health centers Specific nursing classes limited to 1,500 patients per professional. This means that Each primary care nurse or nurse practitioner will have a specific demographic, as indeed is the case in the state family MedicineWhere each doctor appointed some patients and is responsible for them. This initiative is part of the Primary and Community Care Plan.
Allocation of population to nursing professionals is One of the initiatives envisaged in the strategic framework for primary and community care, which foresees an investment of more than 326 million euros to provide this level of care with more staff, more resources, more technology and a new organizational and care model. In the Alicante province There are complaints from the college’s official Low percentage of nurses, being the fifth province in Spain in terms of the number of professionals with a deficit of at least 2,800.
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Until now , nursing staff It did not have a population share of its ownRather, it was endorsed by the family medicine staff with whom he worked, who did so. In this way, if a nursing professional ran a tandem with two family physicians, they assumed the population would be assigned to both. From now on, each nursing resource has its own quota and less than 1,500 people.
at this point, Health also predicted corrective factors to ensure even distribution fair nursing staff, Depending on the complexity of care, socioeconomic determinants, or family groups, among others, according to a statement.
This improvement in the ratio is possible, they add from the Generalitat, because health strengthens and consolidates the nursing staff through the processes initiated for Increase the workforce in the Valencia Health System to reduce temporary employment. Specifically, of the 6,007 new Regulatory positions created last year, 35% are in nursing and among them, 680 are in Primary health care.
For practical purposes, the introduction of specific quotas in nursing means just that The same nurse, or nurse, would accompany the patients assigned to him through all stages of his life, as now with family Medicine. In addition, the nursing staff will be able to develop community health promotion and prevention activities that are adapted to the specifics of the population to which they are assigned.
However, if for any reason, The patient disagreed with the appeal nursing The appointee may request a change, This possibility of free choice is preserved as it happens with family physicians.
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