BOLZANO. A reportage work among the wards of the San Maurizio hospital in Bolzano to give credit to a profession that is too often not adequately valued: that of the nurse.
Almost a mission, that of Fabrizio Boldrin, freelance cameraman, Rai supplier and videomaker, who made his profession available to the nursing category to tell it openly in a 30-minute report broadcast on 14 December on Rai Tre Regione. A work financed by Rai Alto Adige and the Trevi Center which is entitled “Nurse, history of a profession” and has as its setting the cardiology department of the city hospital. It is a place, that of Cardiology, where competence makes the difference between life and death; Fabrizio knows this well, because to carry out his work, entering into the spirit of those who work while wearing a lab coat, he spent around 20 days in the department.
«It is not a tool for trade union compensation for the category – assures Boldrin – no salary claims, but simply a tool to make known what the nurse does and who he is». The cameraman was inspired by Massimo Giacometti, cardiology nursing coordinator at the Bolzano hospital. Watching how nurses work, I couldn’t help but appreciate the passion that a nurse puts into carrying out their profession. A passion that needs to be told.” You wear a lab coat “after a degree, therefore, a nurse is a doctor – explains the videomaker – It doesn’t mean taking away merit from doctors, but giving due credit to the other category. After all, if one witnesses an emergency operation in a haemodynamics room – the cardiology operating room – the layman does not understand who the doctor is and who the nurse is. It is no coincidence that the one that operates is called a team and has the aim that unites all those who are part of it: to save the patient’s life”.
The images flow describing moments of extraordinary daily life in the ward which take on a voice in the words of three professional nurses, Marzia, Ivan and Donato: they are the ones who talk about the delicacy of the work from the moment the patient arrives to when he leaves the ward.
Thirty minutes were not enough to talk about the importance of the human relationship that nurses have with patients and, for this reason, Boldrin is already thinking about a second edition that can highlight not only the technical aspects, but also those relationships based on the empathy created between nurse and patient.