Rome, 5 December 2019 - The agreement between the Red Cross in Rome and the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital which will be active from January 2020 and which provides for the voluntary collaboration of 30 graduate and/or student volunteer nurses and 30 volunteers from the Rome CRI who will be operating in the new Emergency and Acceptance Department of the university hospital in the capital.
The agreement saw the signature of Deborah Diodati, President of CRI Rome and of the General Manager of the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital, Paolo Sormani.
Also present at the signing were the Provincial Inspector of Volunteer Nurses, Sister Eleonora Brugnone, who, together with the Director of the Healthcare Professions Management and Associate Professor of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Daniela Tartaglini, organized a conference for the occasion to explore the forms of interaction between volunteers and health structures in favor of the quality of reception of people in hospital.
Entitled meeting "Together to welcome, comfort and assist citizens in emergency-urgency situations" inaugurates the beginning of a collaboration based on shared principles: welcoming, comforting and assisting citizens in emergency-urgency situations.
The following people participated: the President of the University, Felice Barela, the President of CRI Lazio, Adriano De Nardis, Debora Diodati, President of CRI Rome, the National Vice Inspector of Volunteer Nurses Sister Fabiola Meleo, the Deputy General Secretary of CRI Cristiana Mei. In addition to the speakers: the General Director of the Policlinico, Paolo Sormani, the Health Director, Lorenzo Sommella, the Director of the Healthcare Professions Management and Associate Professor, Daniela Tartaglini, Sister Giulia Clarizio, International Humanitarian Law representative of the Red Cross in Rome.
"30 volunteer or student nurses and 30 volunteers from CRI Rome will operate within the Polyclinic. For the Red Cross nurses who will support the nursing activity with their voluntary work, this will also be valid as an internship for the students. Volunteers will support patients in travel and assistance in general, also in anticipation of the imminent opening of the Emergency Department" - says Deborah Diodati who does not hide his satisfaction with what he defines "a collaboration that will see volunteering at the forefront of giving support and comfort to people being treated at the Polyclinic, giving many people the opportunity to find in the Red Cross a point of reference and support in the wake of the best tradition of Red Cross volunteering in the health field".
"The collaboration with the Red Cross is fully part of the project to create the new Emergency Admissions Department which will see the light of day next spring. The Emergency Department was created with the aim of combining the most modern technologies available and the highest medical and nursing expertise with a welcome for patients and their families which is itself part of the treatment" dichiara Paolo Sormani which, on the agreement signed on World Volunteer Day, he adds "the one with the Red Cross is a structured alliance, built on the common values of our institutions, in a context - such as the University Hospital - in which volunteering has a solid tradition".
The work then included a workshop on the importance of volunteering within an Emergency and Reception Department in which Adolfo Pagnanelli, DEA director, Federica Sambuco, UOC-DEA Medical Director, and Tiziana Marano, nursing coordinator spoke about organizational, clinical-assistance and training aspects. Following the interventions of Sister Benedetta Colasanti of the CRI, on the role of volunteer nurses, Gonzalo Castro Cedeno, of the Caritas health area, Barbara Cannelli, head of the Sant'Egidio community in southern Rome, Gemma Berta, volunteer at the Policlinico, and Claudia Bedetti, House Manager at Casamica Housing Social.
