Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 1992, Publicación: 79ª reunión CIT (1992)

Convenio sobre el personal de enfermería, 1977 (núm. 149) - Uruguay (Ratificación : 1980)

The Committee requests the Government to supply additional information in its report on the following points:

Article 2, paragraph 2(a) and (b). The Committee requests the Government to continue supplying information on the progress achieved as regards education and training that is appropriate to the exercise of nursing functions.

The Committee trusts that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary measures to improve the levels of remuneration and the conditions of employment and work (including career prospects) of nursing personnel in general and of those in the public sector in particular in order to attract persons to the profession and retain them in it, in accordance with the above provision of the Convention.

Article 5, paragraph 2. The Committee requests the Government to keep it informed of the outcome of the work undertaken by the Technical Committee and the Nurses' Association to update the existing standards and to formulate draft legislation and regulations that are specifically applicable to nursing personnel.

Point V of the report form. The Committee trusts that, despite the difficulties to which it refers, it will be possible for it to supply information on the effect given to the Convention in practice, including statistical data on the numbers of nursing personnel in general, and in relation to the population and to the numbers of other workers in the health sector.