El CECOVA requests the Ministry of health of the Valencian Community Mental health units are equipped with specialist nurses.
on the occasion of the opening of a Centre for Mental Health in El Campello, Ãvila noted the need that these resources have specific spaces for Mental health nursing.
valencia, April 2012.- the Council of nursing of the Valencian Community (CECOVA) and the professional of nursing of Valencia, Castellón y Alicante asked last Tuesday 17 to the Minister of health, Luis Rosado, 180 units of the Valencian Community Mental Health “ are equipped with nurse specialists with corresponding Mental health nursing specialty certification †and They claimed “ advance the process of cataloguing of the jobs that require the presence of this type of nurse specialists †which, as recalled, “ form carried out by autonomous budgets in the teaching unit of Mental health of the school of Valencia of studies of the health (EVES) since 1999 â€.
The President of the CECOVA, José Antonio Avila, said that “ the presence of nurses in Mental health specialists in the mental health centres, units of addictive behaviors and hospitals specialized as father Jofré de Valencia is essential to ensure the quality of care and the provision of health services to persons with psychiatric problems with adequate assurances â€:
On the occasion of the opening of a facility in El Campello (Alicante), Avila asked the Ministry of health that all Mental health units are equipped with Mental health nursing and that, in addition, include these specific places in all the contests of transfers and calls for public employment.
Evidence specific and differentiated generalist nurse
In addition, the President of the CECOVA recalled that other autonomous communities such as Murcia, Galicia or Aragon, among others, “ Yes call evidence specific and differentiated the generalist nurse that allows access to the category of Mental health nursing specialty places â€. By way of example, in the case of Murcia, oferta de empleo de 2008 included a total of 19 seats of Mental health nursing.
However, in the Valencian Community, the Ministry of health “ is still ignoring the call for evidence, hiring and public employment offers specific and differentiated for the category of Mental health nursing while he has been in the teaching unit of nurses in Mental Health in the EVES to a total of 125 nursing professionals in Mental health from its launched in 1999 â€.
Finally, the College of nursing organization regretted that “ these specialists may not apply after the knowledge acquired with economic and material resources of the Ministry and exercise their profession in the Valencian health system due to the absence of jobs listed with this labour category and can opt either to the calls for tenders of public employment, labour exchanges and competitions of transfers of health, where squares of this category are systematically excluded â€.
