Presentation of Nursing Now Catalunya campaign to promote innovative nursing practices
On Monday, February 24, the Nursing School of the University of Barcelona (Bellvitge Campus) started the campaign “Les infermeres ens fem visibles”, as part of the program Nursing Now Catalunya, with a session organized together with the Bellvitge University Hospital, the Hospital of Viladecans, the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) and Atenció Primària Costa Ponent. The campaign will be carried out over the year 2020 to commemorate the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, an ephemerid the World Health Organization (WHO) declared on the occasion of the 200 years of the birth of Florence Nightingale, regarded as the mother of modern nursing.
On Monday, February 24, the Nursing School of the University of Barcelona (Bellvitge Campus) started the campaign “Les infermeres ens fem visibles”, as part of the program Nursing Now Catalunya, with a session organized together with the Bellvitge University Hospital, the Hospital of Viladecans, the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) and Atenció Primària Costa Ponent. The campaign will be carried out over the year 2020 to commemorate the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, an ephemerid the World Health Organization (WHO) declared on the occasion of the 200 years of the birth of Florence Nightingale, regarded as the mother of modern nursing.
About a hundred professional nurses, lecturers and students attended the session, opened by M. Pilar Delgado, director of the Nursing School and vice-dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Sciences of the UB; Marta Sancho, assistant member in the Directorate of Primary Care Costa Ponent; Paz Fernández, member of the Corporate Directorate of Care in ICO, and Azuzena Santillán, from the University Hospital of Burgos.
M. Pilar Delgado presented the campaign to be carried out by the health and academic institutions from Bellvitge Campus, as part of the program Nursing Now Catalunya. The campaign consists on a series of mottos and actions that will coincide with the international health days. Therefore, it will give visibility to the task of the nurses. Delgado highlighted “the crucial role of nurses in the health system for the citizensʼ health”.
Furthermore, Paz Fernández commented on the strategic and specialized training of nurses and highlighted we need “new roles and leaders to adapt the changes of the future”. Also, Marta Sancho presented the evolution of this profession regarding research and doctoral studies, showing everything the field of nursing has achieved over the last forty years.
In the opening conference, Azuzena Santillán, member of Ciencia en el Parlamento, encouraged the professionals of the nursing field to use evidence as a method and insisted on the importance of “scientific rigor applied to people and societyʼs cures”. She said the global program Nursing Now “is about involving professionals in the social and political life of the community and changing the perception of nursing as a light science, while elevating the status and profile of nurses in the field of health”.
A year full of activities to make nursesʼ tasks visible
As part of the Nursing Now Catalunya campaign, the month of March will offer activities coinciding with the European Day of Prevention of Cardiovascular Risk, and there will be others in April on the occasion of the International Health Day. In may there will be another session to commemorate the International Nurses Day and the World No Tobacco Day. The actions of June will revolve around the Skin Cancer Awareness Month, with recommendations for summer. October will offer a session on mental health with the collaboration of entities and associations. November will be focused on actions related to gender violence, and December will feature a balance of the actions carried out over the year.