“A very attended meeting, with those who aspire to become the future nurses of the State Hospital of the Republic of San Marino”.

This was reported by the Secretariat of State for Health, who wrote: “The Secretary of State for Health and Social Security Roberto Ciavatta, accompanied by the Secretary of State for Education, Culture and the University Andrea Belluzzi and Elisabetta Ercolani, Coordinator of the social-health and nursing staff of the Social Security Institute, yesterday went to the headquarters of the Degree Course in Nursing of the Polytechnic University of Marche to carry out, in front of the 3rd year students, a real presentation of the health system San Marino.

At the center of the meeting, chaired by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery prof. Mauro Silvestrini and who saw a large participation by students, the possibilities provided by the Republic of San Marino and its health system for nursing careers, with particular focus on the organization chart of the ISS, its Operating Units, the levels of salary and the facilities provided for by the law on the subject for obtaining residency, the future development lines sanctioned by the new Health Plan.

The Secretary of State Belluzzi has come in particular as the San Marino University Pole is expanding and diversifying its training offer, foreseeing in the near future the addition of numerous specialization courses, including many dedicated to health and social issues. In addition, he has recently signed up with the Italian agency INDIRE, which will allow the University of San Marino and its students to join the Erasmus Plus program of the European Union.

The Secretary of State Ciavatta, on the other hand, has as an example the Marinese health center, although inserted in a medium-small size context, contains within it that makes it unique in the territorial context, as well as its own National Bioethics Committee – chaired by the bioethicist Dr. .ssa Luisa Borgia – with important publications and research taken as a point of reference also by the World Health Organization. He also added how the Amarinese service was among the first in the world to adopt a computerized system of medical records for each patient: this system – the Blue Card – has been active since 1990.

With particular reference to the nursing staff, the Secretary of State Ciavatta and the Coordinator Elisabetta Ercolani presented the need to strengthen this sector, with a view to future development of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. They also asked how, in order to facilitate the recruitment of personnel, regulations were adopted during the health emergency period – now confirmed also for the post-emergent period – which conditions of better favor than in the past, for those who they will decide to work at the Social Security Institute.

Finally, a large part was dedicated to future development projects, which sees the Government of San Marino committed to creating the territory of a new hospital, capable of carrying the system into the future and opening it to the developments of surgical robotics and genomics.

Following the lesson with the students, the Secretary Roberto Ciavatta spoke with professors Flavia Carle (Professor of Medical and Social Statistics and Coordinator of the EBI Center – Interdepartmental Center of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics), Rosaria Gesuita ( Associate Professor of Medical Statistics and CERS component) and Erika Adrario (Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Intensive Care) to outline the final details of what will be the collaboration agreement between the Polytechnic University of Marche and the Social Security Institute: the signing will make it possible to expand the training offer in the San Marino territory, with organizational specialization courses in collaboration with the University of the Republic of San Marino. In particular, they will focus on research methodology, the skills of which are also made necessary by the new law on the matter recently approved “.