We have the mechanisms to detect symptoms of abuse, we know how women act when they feel subjected and we have knowledge to help them and support them

El 25 de noviembre se celebra el Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer. Un día que sirve para denunciar la violencia que se ejerce sobre las mujeres en todo el mundo y en el que se reclaman políticas para la erradicación de este tipo de maltrato. Ante esta situación, el Consejo General de Enfermería quiere poner en valor el trabajo de todas las enfermeras en hospitales, centros de salud, sociosanitarios y otros ámbitos como los colegios para detectar y prevenir casos de violencia contra la mujer.

So far this year, according to data from the Ministry of Equality, 37 women have been killed by men in Spain, which shows the great problem facing the country and institutions, which must work intensely to fight against this scourge.Nurses, as professionals closest to patients, have a key role when discovering possible cases of abuse and helping these women during the process.

"We are currently facing a problem of enormous dimensions.In these 11 months of 2021, 37 women have lost their lives at the hands of men who considered that they were their property.Since 2003, the year in which the victims began to be counted, this figure amounts to 1.118, which means five women killed per month.Some data that leave no doubt and reveal a dramatic situation that must be attacked with all available judicial weapons, ”says Pilar Fernández, vice president of the General Nursing Council.

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On the occasion of this day, the school organization wants to value the role of nurses as health educators."We have the mechanisms to detect symptoms of abuse, we know how women act when they feel subject and we have knowledge to help and support them," says Fernández.

In this sense, from the CGE they remember the importance of improving nurse/patient ratios to deal with situations such as this.“At present, we have ratios well below the European average.In this sense, the accumulation of work for all nurses makes many times, problems like this, they cannot be addressed as necessary, overlooking indications that would allow us to save lives.Our colleagues are making a superhuman effort for years and much more now with the pandemic, but administrations must bet on nursing and hire more professionals to deal with other pandemics such as mental health or that of unfortunately, unfortunately,Machista violence, ”says Florentino Pérez Raya, president of the CGE.

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Likewise, Pilar Fernández states that this is a structural problem, that we must stop with an educational model in which she does not fit machismo.“Children must grow with an education based on equality.We cannot allow actions or ways of relating anachronistic and past times to be perpetuated.School nurses have a lot to say in this aspect, since they are health educators at all levels of the educational community.This group is responsible for teaching the little healthy habits, but also education in values to grow respecting, regardless of the differences we have as people, ”says the vice president of the 325.000 nurses from Spain."In addition," also, through the conversations and behaviors of minors, school nurses can glimpse possible cases of abuse in homes, thus managing to act against them as quickly as possible ".

For her, Conchi, Mari Carmen, Laura, Mari Cruz, Pilar, Rocío, Soledad or Alicia are only eight of the more than a thousand names of women who, because of sexist violence, left broken whole families."We can't look aside and ignore a reality that does more and more damage.Each blow and every murder of a woman hurts us to each and every one of us.We must continue fighting and the nurses will be facing gender violence, ”concludes Pilar Fernández.