Without doctors and nurses, the health of Italians is at risk Doctors and nurses represent the pillars of our healthcare system. However, more and more professionals are leaving Italy. This silent but unstoppable exodus is also hitting Emilia Romagna hard, particularly the Bologna area, where hundreds of nurses are seeking new opportunities elsewhere. When asked: "Why do you want to leave?", the answer from tired and disappointed colleagues is almost always the same: "I can't take working under this deaf and uncaring management, which doesn't know how to do its job, anymore." The frustration arises from the feeling of not being listened to and constantly facing a wall of indifference. Requests for holidays, part-time, or leave are often denied, and staff are forced to remain on call even on their days off, victims of pressure and moral blackmail. Nurses' reports concern working conditions on the edge of safety: situations where a single professional finds themselves managing 32 patients, while simultaneously having to intervene in other departments due to emergencies or staff shortages. These scenarios not only put patients' health at risk, but also compromise the safety of the nurses themselves, who, despite obvious mitigating circumstances, often find themselves being the only ones held responsible in case of problems. Not responding to a call for help from another department could bring the nurse before a disciplinary committee, while intervening still exposes them to legal risks. In any case, the real culprit, that is, an incompetent and indifferent management, remains unpunished, leaving nurses as scapegoats. The population, unfortunately, is not aware of these serious operational difficulties. If they were, they would not react with violence and distrust towards healthcare staff. For this reason, it is essential to provide more information, making these conditions known and raising public awareness about the reality that healthcare professionals experience every day. Nursing Up Emilia Romagna has a proposal to stop the flight of professionals, we propose to the Region an innovative and courageous plan, structured on two main points: Find regional funds to improve nurses' salaries, through additional benefits, in order to make Emilia Romagna an attractive region for healthcare professionals, not only retaining its own workers, but also attracting others from outside the region. Establish a dedicated reporting channel through which nurses can report the unjustified refusal of holidays, leave, part-time, internal mobility and other requests, as well as hostile and potentially dangerous working conditions, such as the need to leave their own department to intervene elsewhere, with all the legal risks that entails. Nursing Up is daily engaged in sending reports, involving lawyers and interfacing with healthcare companies, but too often these ignore the requests, as if they felt protected by an opaque and difficult-to-understand system. We invite the Emilia Romagna Region to take up this courageous challenge, hoping it can become an example for other Italian regions.
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