The training of nurse-anesthetists and speech therapists may benefit from the degree of master, according to a decree. With this victory, they hope to be able to renegotiate their salary.
The wait will have been long! The long-awaited decree by nurse-anesthetists conferring the degree of Master was published on Wednesday in Official newspaper. This is a victory for this profession which has been fighting for a long time on this subject.
Master degree for speech therapists too
The decree in question (n ° 2014-1511 of December 15, 2014) also attributes this grade to the training of speech therapists. For them, this recognition will come at the end of the 2017-2018 academic year, but from September 2014 for the State diploma of nurse-anesthetist, according to the decree.
This corresponds to a harmonization of the levels recognized in the European area (license-master-doctorate). To understand these students follow a year of common health with future doctors and pharmacists, before receiving specific training in two cycles (3 years + 2, the equivalent of a master’s level but which was not recognized as such. ).
Thus, after the three-year cycle of school studies, nurses wishing to specialize in anesthesia can follow additional training of two years if they can prove that they have two years of experience, which will now represent a master’s degree, the symbol of five years of post-baccalaureate studies.
The wage battle behind the scenes
But behind this issue is in fact the whole question of salary increases. Indeed, while they obtained the master’s degree in 2013 (the decree only appearing today), midwives often repeat that they do not have the salary that goes with it. “The statute of the hospital public service considers us as bac + 3, but we are paid as bac + 2 and a half, with not even the basic salary which corresponds to a license level. The worst thing is that in reality, we have a bac + 5, with a first year of medicine and a four-year training course that follows to become a midwife ”, explained last year to why actor Caroline Raquin, president of the National Organization of Midwives Trade Unions (ONSSF).
To justify this, the public authorities repeat for their part that “grade” does not mean “diploma”. For these professions, the battle is therefore still far from won.
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