Sondalo: “The nursing school was not closed due to lack of enrollment”
Sondalo – The school nurses Sondalo were made statements that do not conform to reality. The claims in an open letter sent to our editorial staff former director of the Alexandria school dedicated to Mary and Marisa Simonelli (two nurses killed 22 May 1957 by a patient to hospital Sondalo). Mirella Lamberti invites everyone, especially politicians to avoid an instrumental use of what was an undeniable asset for the entire province …
Mirella Lamberti has been Director of Nursing School of Sondalo Maria Alessandra and Marisa SIMONELLI of Sondalo 1974 to 1997.
OPEN LETTER FROM THE FORMER DIRECTOR OF SCHOOL NURSES Sondalo
After a decade of nursing at the Hospital of Sondalo, I was director of the school nurses’ Maria Alessandra and Marisa SIMONELLI for 23 years, assisted by a group of very valid contributors. I think I can claim to know well the history of the school so much talked about today and most of those who speak in this period.
I met students from all over Italy, from all areas of the province, from Livigno to Valchiavenna despite having been created as a result even the school nurses of Sondrio.
This long-term human and professional experience leads me to invite everyone, and not politicians, who lack depth of the argument are left to carry apocalyptic predictions of a certain decay of the university course in nursing in Sondalo avoiding an instrumental use of what was an undeniable asset for the whole Province.
The topic of the future and use of Sondalo Hospital is not new, it speaks for many years. In the latter period this debate was reignited in recent days and the focus was on an important component of the garrison, which was the Nursing School.
As a former manager I feel obliged to intervene not trivial polemics, but to restore what is historical truth. In particular, I read that somebody got to say that nursing school was closed for lack of enrollment and therefore bring in Sondalo would repeat a mistake. These statements do not conform to reality.
The nursing school was established by the INPS in the year ’62 / ’63 is the first experience of county level in the field of professional nursing culture. Its establishment etched heavily on economic and social fabric and promoting a culture of health among the population.
Represented a great innovation and opportunities within the training time in the context of this Province providing many young people a secure future work, professionally and humanely trained. During the year training at the School of Sondalo lived fruitful cultural exchanges at international level, with schools and hospitals in France, Spain, England etc..
It is worth pointing out that its inclusion in the Hospital of Sondalo helped raise the quality of health care by all recognized at the national level.
In all these years at the school Sondalo have graduated over 1,200 nurses, 64 nurses and 76 nurse practitioners.
Like all school nurses in the Region (then about 78 now reduced to 15 and mostly allocated in hospitals as was to Sondalo), we also had to comply with the directions of the region which determined the number of posts assigned, and the subsequent publication of notices of competition, or called themselves, notices of recruitment.
During my work has always had an excess of requests compared to the number of seats allocated by the Region that unfortunately required a necessary selection.
Tarsformazione view of the course for professional nurses in the course of degree in Nursing, the Region decided to simplify the number of schools pending the establishment of the new curriculum. On that occasion due to a number of reasons, mainly political, the region not assigned places at the school of Sondalo since 1995 and therefore was not possible to publish notices of recruitment.
In those years led to the conclusion already started courses up to the forced closure with the latest graduates of 1997. So the truth is that today, as then there is a set of behaviors and anti Sondalo leading even to say things are not true.
I have no fear, and indeed I am sure you can argue that if the school had issued notices of Sondalo, would continue to have a high number of entries as is always the case.
The reasons have been identified:
the setting from college with a university dormitory and canteen service which they are bound to add value and provides optimal rationalization of time to devote to the theoretical and the practical; the opportunity for students to do an internship in different specialties within the same structure, further improvement in training; resulting level of training of nurses valuable, riconociuto by everyone, including large hospitals outside the province.
Finally on this occasion I must reiterate that the school was established and named in memory of INPS Maria Simonelli Alexandria and Marisa, two health workers killed at the hands of a patient Hospital Sondalo. I therefore call not just to Faedo to one of the two, and I believe that the institution should be instead dedicated to their memory remains settled in the place where the tragic event occurred.
In thanks for the hospitality given to me, I express the hope that future policy will be able to convey the demands of the territory according to standard assessments of opportunities in the light of historical experience, and pursuing a unity of purpose based on a comparison fair and honest and not stretched and distorted information to pursue their goals.