Shortage of nursing staff and disorganization. These are the two main points addressed by the Fials union in a letter sent to the general director of Brotzu. The reference is to the Pediatric Clinic for Rare Diseases at the Antonio Cao Hospital in Cagliari, known as the Microcitemico.
According to the union, "the current situation appears to be the result of a progressive and predictable organizational and professional depletion that has developed over time, culminating in the transfer of the facility from the Cagliari Local Health Authority to Arnas Brotzu. It appears to have been the handover of an organizational ruin and its operational debris, progressively emptied, in the preceding months, of a significant portion of its professional quality and nursing workforce."
Specifically, Fials reports, "currently, out of a formal nursing staff of 15 people, only 7 nurses are actually employed to cover 24-hour shifts , in a facility with 18 beds and characterized by extremely high levels of care."
A situation that would lead to " operational conditions that are completely incompatible with minimum organizational, care and safety standards , with an inevitable increase in workload, exposure to work-related stress, increased clinical risk and a very serious compromise in staff safety conditions."
Fials believes that intervention aimed at truly strengthening staffing, "restoring organizational conditions compatible with the safety of care and ending management practices that, over the years, have progressively depleted a regional reference structure" can no longer be postponed.
(Unioneonline/An.De)
