The success of Gesy requires the fruitful contribution of all concerned, Well being Minister Michael Damianos stated on Friday.
Talking on the opening of a nursing and midwifery convention, he identified that nurses and midwives make up the most important single group of execs inside Gesy.
He stated they’ve “the expertise and data which might lead each day to the advance of effectivity, effectiveness, the availability of high quality care, and the achievement of optimum outcomes for sufferers and the final inhabitants.”
To this finish, he stated “it is necessary that nurses and coverage makers give attention to the supply of efficient nursing care and environment friendly care techniques as a key situation for attaining optimum well being and wellbeing for all.”
He went on to reward nurses for his or her “multilayered and multidimensional” position, including that nursing “has the human at its centre and all the time acts primarily based on humanitarian values”.
He added that the well being sector’s focus ought to now be on “bettering the standard of care offered”, and that this may be achieved by way of cooperation with the varied concerned division and businesses.
With this in thoughts, he stated his ministry is working for “the continual enchancment of the extent of well being and wellbeing among the many inhabitants” and doing so by following its “guiding ideas”.
These guiding ideas, he stated, are “human rights, sufferers’ rights, human dignity and solidarity, and equality of entry”.
Nevertheless, regardless of Damianou’s heat phrases, nurses themselves in some quarters are lower than enamoured with the federal government’s efficiency.
Nurses’ union Pasyno and the European Federation of Nurses’ Associations on Friday penned a joint letter to Damianou, expressing concern relating to coaching of nurses in Cyprus in relation to the European Union’s mutual recognition of requirements {and professional} {qualifications}.
Their considerations relate to the deliberate discount of the variety of hours in Cyprus required to coach a nurse to three,800. Such a discount wouldn’t adjust to the EU minimal of 4,600 hours, which nurses say might endanger affected person security and can infringe upon their human rights.
Within the letter, they stated Cypriot nurses’ EU freedom of motion “can be jeopardised if we discard the directive”, as their {qualifications} would not be recognised as having met the minimal European requirements.
As well as, they stated, analysis carried out over the past three a long time “reveals {that a} 10 per cent discount in nurses’ schooling will increase affected person mortality by seven per cent”.
They stated, “we’d like extremely educated and motivated nurses who shield individuals within the well being care system and who’re current at sufferers’ bedsides and near the individuals 24 hours a day, seven days per week.”
They added that “it is necessary for nationwide governments of the EU to make sure that their well being techniques have the mandatory nursing workforce, with the mandatory expertise, to supply top quality and protected healthcare companies.”
“The nursing scarcity disaster can’t be solved by lowering the {qualifications} required to be a nurse or finishing up unethical recruitment strategies,” they stated.
They added, “affected person well being and security is of paramount significance, particularly in these very troublesome occasions. If we need to be higher ready for the following well being disaster, in no matter kind it could come, we should not decrease the barrier for nurses to qualify.”
