Covid, nurses: “Threatened with death by no vax”

“In recent days there have been cases of threats, including death, against some presidents of the Orders of Nurses who have applied the law by removing no-vax from patients and have applied the Code of Ethics which presupposes that the first duty of a nurse is that of being vaccinated to ensure maximum protection of people’s health. Otherwise, quality care is not possible and according to professional ethics “. This was denounced in a note by Fnopi, the National Federation of the Orders of Nursing Professions. “To this are added the threats of complaints against nurses who are urging, as every health professional must do, anti-Covid vaccinations”, continues the Federation, which is evaluating “heavy legal actions for the protection of its representatives and the course. of the profession “. “The paradox then – Fnopi points out in a note – is that it also happens that the nurses are not threatened by other nurses towards whom the presidents act according to the law and ethics, but exponents of different activities, which despite having to do with the patients they are no-vax and show intolerance and absolute lack of the principle and respect for health protection “. It is our duty to intervene – says Barbara Mangiacavalli, president of Fnopi – It is to protect fellow presidents and professionals, and as nurses to ensure citizens are always at the forefront to ensure their health. From the beginning we invited all professionals to comply with the law and on our part we will continue to raise awareness of the importance of vaccination “.” For a nurse – adds Mangiacavalli – it is a duty towards citizens, colleagues and also towards the science we believe in. The nursing profession adheres to the principles of professional ethics that guide the science and conscience of nurses in choices that respond to the imperative principle of protecting people’s health, and recognizes the value of scientific evidence as the basis of its professional action “. As for nurses, no -vax, Mangiacavalli notes that “they are really in percentages lower than 0.5%”. “Precisely quantifying nurses vaccinated against the” Covid-19 “pandemic is a complex operation, but it can be estimated that today they are more so of 90% of all enrolled in the Registers which are over 456 thousand – he underlines – This considering, however, that we are approaching 100% of vaccinated nurses among the National Health Service dependent nurses, with rare exceptions ‘waiters’ or for verified causes, which are in the order of the hundred. The percentage of vaccinated goes down for freelancers, who initially – he remembers – were not considered among the priorities in vaccination campaigns and therefore many are still in the vaccination phase “.