Nurses refuse to transfer responsibilities to assistants

Slovak Chamber of Nurses and Midwives rejects that the lack of nurses and finances in health care should be solved by the change of education and strengthening of competencies of healthcare assistants. Efforts to transfer competencies from nurses to assistants Chamber considers as unallowable. Chamber this way reacted to the changes enforced by the Association of Medical High Schools in cooperation with Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education in the State Education Programme for professional education for high schools.