To the President of the Emilia Romagna Region
Governor Stefano Bonaccini To the citizens
To all healthcare professionals
Health risk in Emilia Romagna, hospitals on the verge of collapse.
The health of our nurses, midwives, and OSS is increasingly at risk of burnout with a rise in injuries and/or illness due precisely to fatigue, which inevitably leads to a drop in attention and which will inevitably also affect patients if we don't put a stop to it.
Nursing Up has been denouncing the serious staff shortage for years, we have receipts of the various certified emails sent to the Prefectures, various general managements, mayors, even ministers and senators.
The staff is up to their necks, skipping rest, holidays, double shifts, more consecutive nights, while the managers locked in their ivory tower continue to produce procedures that provide neither quality nor safety for either the patient or the professionals.
There are situations in Emilia Romagna where the nurse/patient ratio is dangerously high, very far from international evidence that speaks of one nurse for every 6 patients in the wards.
Where is this quality or patient centrality that is so often talked about?
International research is clear, and Nursing Up has been asking for at least 6 years, to reduce the risk of mortality, infections, bedsores, and antibiotic resistance it is necessary to have one nurse for every 6 patients in the "basic" wards and it must be clear to the citizen that for every additional patient the possibility of error and even disastrous consequences for the assisted patients increases significantly.
An investment that translates into quality but also into savings of millions of euros in antibiotics, dressings, drugs, days of hospitalization, and funerals.
So, instead of writing procedures here we need to hire/stabilize many, many nurses and even more OSS because it is unthinkable to neglect hotel and basic care.
It is pointless to look for staff abroad and maybe pay them three times as much when in Italy we have the best professionals courted by all European nations.
It is mandatory that these hires follow a serious plan that truly gives relief to healthcare staff who have been understaffed long before the pandemic. Reckless choices, business-oriented political decisions that have everything to do with anything but the centrality of the citizen.
It is necessary to change the approach in the hierarchical relationship, we are overwhelmed by unedifying stories from workers who suffer from their superiors, which has now become more authoritarian than authoritative, increasingly threatening rather than open to discussion and listening.
It is fundamental to restore a relationship of humanity and professionalism, management cannot just come from above, they must know how to listen to every single worker they must know how to value people and must come down from the ivory tower, in this regard we suggest as a union an exercise used in psychology with role reversal for 30 days: nursing managers, who are healthcare professionals before being managers, cover a nurse's shift and let's see how they apply the problem-solving procedures they have created.
It is essential to favor those who work on the front lines with more substantial remuneration and therefore stop creating favorites and outcasts, the funds' money must be used to seriously increase the pay of these people!
The public must know that despite this management, even though the hospitals are adrift, with many captains and no helmsman the healthcare professionals of Emilia Romagna will always carry out their work for the citizen with knowledge and conscience, but the situation is not only critical, not only dramatic, it has truly reached collapse.
Immediately close the open rankings, stabilize those entitled, hold new competitions.
Nursing Up says no to recruiting staff from abroad.
Nursing Up Emilia Romagna Secretariat
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