Social Health Operators and the evolution necessary to guarantee the health of all. A volume by Alessandro Salerno.
Dear editorial staff of AssoCareNews.it,
I follow your work with great interest, I follow the news stories you talk about every day and which concern healthcare and health workers. I know that behind those articles is the passion and work of nurses, OSS and many other professionals.
I have been working as a Social Health Operator for 13 years, I have traveled Italy from North to South, knowing different regional realities, methods and dynamics. It was hard but it was worth it, I met many professional realities, many organizational methods but above all, I met many colleagues between OSS and nurses who taught me to live and work.
Over time I have learned more and more to have respect for what I did even if it was never love at first sight. What I have learned to recognize in particular was the importance that each of us has when carrying out our business for the sick and the regards that come in particular from those you care for.
However, it is not enough, we need something more, something that after so many years now 20, has not yet arrived.
As a person I definitely feel better since doing this job, as a professional absolutely not.
I feel almost non-existent, sometimes even on the edge of a sector that increasingly struggles to recognize you as a professional, besides all let’s face it: assuming you go customs you find.
In each region there is an OSS with skills and tasks, we are different from each other, what you can do in Trentino you do not do in Palermo and vice versa. For example, I find it absurd that even today, these big advertising signs are found on the street offering courses for OSS and at the same time for hairdresser and beautician. Without detracting from beauticians, but I absolutely do not agree that an operator who works in hospitals or in any case within a professional sector such as the health one, must be trained by the same schools where other kinds of professionals are trained who have nothing to do with health care and more generally with assistance.
I think that if nurses or managers of the sector from other European countries came, they would laugh!
I have collected all these points of view in a paper, of which I am attaching the cover. Let me be clear I have absolutely no desire to be a writer much less to earn money through publishing as my modest salary as a civil servant is enough, indeed to be honest, it cost me to take off the whim, but I’m happy if I could to involve colleagues, if I could make them meditate on the fact that we need to grow, to integrate more and more together with other professionals such as nurses and all the others.
Cordially.
Alessandro Salerno, Operator social health
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