The intervention of the governor at a meeting promoted by the Arezzo OP to take stock of this new figure, who already sees 334 professionals at work in the South East Tuscany ASL. “The aging of people and the increase in chronic diseases brings with it the need to help people live in their own homes as much as possible, guaranteeing help in everyday life. The family and community nurse is increasingly a figure of reference, said Giani. INTEGRAL INTERVENTION
01 OTT – Family and community nurses are “a new professional figure who has become a reference point for all of us ever since he entered the Tuscan healthcare sector (with resolution in 2018).” Thus the president of the Tuscany Region, Eugenio Giani, is an intervention at a meeting promoted by the Arezzo OP. Every citizen who lives in the territory of the South East Tuscany Local Health Authority has an assigned Family and Community Nurse; a health professional who recognizes and seeks to mobilize resources within communities, increases and improves control over the health of citizens. In the entire territory of the ASL there are 334 nurses for this sector (117 Arezzo, 114 Siena and 103 Grosseto).
“The aging of people and the increase in disease chronic, carries with it the need to help people live in their own homes as much as possible, guaranteeing help in everyday life. The family and community nurse is increasingly a figure of reference, a facilitator who helps the patient to orient himself ”, said Giani.
“We have activated this new organizational model already in 2020 – declared the General Manager of the ASL Antonio D’Urso -. The experimentation, despite the pandemic, was fruitful and the results pushed us towards an acceleration of the extension of the experience to the entire territory of the company. Our company is the leader in Tuscany and one of the first in Italy to have started this project of the Family Nurse. Furthermore, the Relaunch Decree – PNRR in Mission 6: Objective Health, recommends a strong development of Territorial Care, with dedicated Structures (Community Homes, Community Hospitals, Territorial Operational Centers, …) but also with proximity networks and strengthening of territorial direction of chronic conditions and fragility, giving a mandate to the family and community nurse as one of the cornerstones of the renewal of assistance in the area. Our goal is to strengthen the health and social network with an action that develops directly within the communities and with the communities “.
“All these nurses – continues Dg Antonio D’Urso – they carry out functions that are highly integrated with all professionals and other stakeholders who work for the health of citizens, primarily with family doctors, community doctors, social workers, physiotherapists , doctors of continuity of assistance, but also pharmacies, religious institutions, voluntary associations, the neighborhood; all those formal and informal resources that can build a network of support, support and protection on the health needs of a person who lives in the territory entrusted to him “.
“Today with this important and significant donation – concludes the Dg – for which I thank the Arezzo companies that have proved particularly sensitive (Calcit-Euronics-Chimet spa- Unoaerre-Novart-Zone Creative-Galvanica Formelli-Pm Allarmi), our professionals in the province of Arezzo will be provided with each a smartphone with a dedicated number and will network with the system and the community. We hope to do the same in the other provinces soon ”.
“The family and community nurses shave been assigned to a specific and delimited territory – he explained Vianella Agostinelli Nursing Director of the nursing and midwifery professions department – taking into account the orographic, demographic, epidemiological characteristics, but also the population density and social characteristics of the territory and the community that inhabits it.
We paid the utmost attention to the geographical subdivision so that this was compatible with the presence of the AFT (offices of the Associations of General Practitioners) operating in a specific territorial area. This is precisely to facilitate the precious partnership with family doctors ”.
The average ratio of each nurse is 1 per 3000 population. “This guarantees an adequate and functional proximity to the reference community”, underlined Agostinelli, reporting that “the project of the South East Tuscany Local Health Authority sees family and community nurses as a way of working and assistance, oriented to the single person, to his family and the community in which they are inserted. “
“Society changes and with it the care needs – he then affirmed Giovanni Grasso President of OPI (Arezzo Order of Nursing Professions and OPI Tuscany Coordinator) -. Healthcare systems and professionals are developing various organizational and management models to respond to new future scenarios with clinical-organizational appropriateness and competence. The Family Nurse is a professional figure trained to direct and encourage the family, identifying their health needs and indicating the best way to use health services. The main objectives that the family nurse pursues are to promote and protect the health of the individual and the population throughout the life together with that of reducing the incidence of the most common diseases and accidents, alleviating suffering. that these cause “.
“That of the family and community nurse – concluded Grasso – it is therefore a fundamental role in guaranteeing continuity of care. Thanks to today’s Donation, the first event in Italy and I am convinced that there will be many others, the pact between Nurse and Citizen is ratified, a trust that is placed in the new figure of the Family and Community Nurse as a solution to the answers of need of the citizen “.
01 October 2021
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