The new era and old problems

Abstract

We have overcome the pandemic emergency and returned to so-called normality.

I would reflect, in every sense, on what we have learned from this emergency. At a general glance I would say: nothing.

Health care looks like that of the great reforms of the early 1980s and 1990s, eras of heroic reforms based on the concept of health as a right, of responsibility within organisations and of professionals to be recognised, when resources were defined, or rather reduced, and instead of looking at changes in care processes and organisations we looked at changes in structures. Back then, nurses fought for the need to change processes through competence, and for the right to have nursing recognised as an autonomous scientific discipline, because they were aware that they were making a difference. Since then their cultural journey has not stopped. [...]

Keywords

• Sanità pubblica
• infermieri di area critica