Only 19 professionals, with two long absences, compared to the 24 nurses foreseen in the staff of the advanced emergency vehicle service of 118 of Sassari. An alarm launched by the union of nurses Nursing Up which once again denounces the serious shortages of personnel of the principals of Sassarese and the grueling work shifts that employees are forced to endure.
A state of emergency that makes it impossible to cover unscheduled absences without skipping rest periods for the remaining staff or activating overtime.
"Situation out of control also in the Aou Emergency Department of Sassari, passed from Ats to Areus management - underlines the Nursing union manager, Andrea Farris - where the staff is reduced to a minimum due to the numerous health workers who became infected in carrying out their work, for which shifts coverage is guaranteed only through overtime and additional services ".
Added to this is the amount of work that has grown further in this pandemic wave which, at certain times of the day, brings the nurse / patient ratio even to 1:35 (the OECD average in emergency rooms is 1: 3) making it impossible to guarantee from a on the one hand the safety of patients and operators, on the other the quality of care. For years, Nursing Up has been asking for interventions to be put in place to strengthen the staffing of emergency and urgent services, increasing local services in order to minimize the improper use of the Emergency Department.
"There is still a lack of assistance structures for chronic patients and nursing management departments in the area, - adds Andrea Farris - which would allow faster relocation of patients in terms of intensity of care, making it easier to hospitalize all those patients who are currently waiting on a stretcher a bed in suitable wards which in the meantime remain under the management of the emergency room nursing staff ".
