NURSES OF THE SCHEME
We arrive in our brief historical in fermierisitico wander the period of the fascist regime.In those years came the first real regulation of nursing education course that was reserved for women only. In 1925 he opened the boarding-schools for nurses. The schools were placed under state control and place that gave two-year diploma courses for the profession of nursing.
The boarding-schools were administered by medical director and primary hospital where the school resided. The so-called director of the boarding school was the only nurse present administration, with virtually no power.
It follows from this model of authoritarianism typical “twenty years” focused on very low view of nursing, especially as performed by female figures, and found the alternative to the medical profession. Then as the hour in any health care were based on the figure of the doctor!
Teachers and doctors were obviously the only figure is that of director of nursing school and boarding school which was very much task of teaching moral education of students. The teaching nursing techniques was very superficial and fragmented, while in some schools to nursing students are taught home economics! It ‘totally lacking the teaching of “nursing” as the Nightingale had proposed some sixty years ago!
Students are required to the qualification of secondary school of first instance, but it was not even mandatory. The elementary school was enough if the application was accompanied by the declaration of two “respectable” by the school known about the morality of the applicant.
In those years the military thought it was fashionable, I want to quote Article 42 of Royal Decree 2330 of 1929 which provided for the grant of a nurse practitioner who had completed the training, especially in military hospitals or the Red Cross. The Red Cross volunteer nurses in the two decades that have had several facilities. Just flipping the law 1084 of 1937.
School for professional nurses is included in these years in a context of complete dependence on medical figure. Not provided any form of criticism, nor a specific role in the healthcare system and self era by the professional nurse. During the same period comes the figure of the ‘general nurses’ lower-level operator that the RD 1310/1940 it places the work in hospitals under the nurse’s professional responsibility.
The only merit should be recognized that the system is that it lawfully disciplined operation of the nursing profession and have established two levels (professional and general), somehow putting an end to the complete confusion that prevailed until then. Next time we’ll see what they did and what the nurses studied decades earlier from the 50s until February 1999.