title: [Nurses and action policy: a historical and current lack].
abstract: Both in the past and at present, we see a very weak presence of nurses both in Spanish Parliament and in the parliaments of the seventeen autonomous communities that constitute the kingdom of Spain. The present study, focused on the current legislature (X Legislature, 2011-2015), aims to give the exact number of deputies nurses in each of the mentioned legislative chambers, and size their position in them and identify their coordinates of identity, gender, age, educational qualification and political party they belong to, in order to specify the exact percentages of participation of nurses. The conclusion of this research presents a picture so bleak that has been diagnosed, quite rightly, as "political anorexia of the nurse power".
authors.forename: José Antonio Avila
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Olivares
mesh_terms: D006076:Government; D006676:History of Nursing; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D009726:Nurses; D011050:Policy Making; D013030:Spain