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REVIEW: Lill Sverresdatter Larsen, Head of the Norwegian Nursing Association Photo: Sunniva Tønsberg Gaski / Norwegian Nursing Association
The Norwegian Nurses Association replies that nurses are not part of the crown committee of inquiry. They now receive support in opposition to Storting.
Last Friday, the government appointed a commission of inquiry to “map all sides of government management” of the crown crisis, Aftenposten reported. But the composition provokes reactions.
Lill Sverresdatter Larsen, director of the Norwegian Nursing Association, believes that the committee of inquiry cannot answer central parts of the mandate without having the voice speaking on behalf of nurses.
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– Nurses have great confidence in society and I hope that the government has confidence in the competence of nurses. So this is disappointing. I hope the authorities can change their minds to find a place for the nurses. We believe that they are missing significant and meaningful competition for the answers they can provide. This makes it impossible to answer key parts of what is in his mandate, Larsen tells VG.
But the prime minister does not appear to have plans to change his mind. In a statement to VG, Erna Solberg outlines the Commission’s broad and open mandate and that although the pandemic is a health crisis, it has affected almost all parts of society.
– The experience of nurses has been and is very important in the management of the pandemic by the health service. In other sectors, a host of other critical social functions have also been tested, and made visible in a completely different way than before. These are also important parts of the commission’s mandate, Solberg explains and continues:
– It is practically not possible to form a commission where all critical social functions are represented through their various professions. However, I am sure that the Commission as a whole has the necessary competence to evaluate each part of its mandate, said the prime minister.
The prime minister says she assumes the commission will be open to outside opinions and evaluations of her work, both from nurses, from the Norwegian Nursing Association and others.
The Commission will deliver its work at the end of March 2021.
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The largest occupational group in healthcare.
The nurses consist of 120,000 employees and 6,000 managers of health services in Norway. Larsen points out that they are represented in all municipalities and hospitals and are in contact with all kinds of patients at all stages of life.
The health service is represented on the commission by three doctors, says Larsen. She notes that doctors are an essential and important voice.
– But all-day care is part of the mandate and the doctors are not responsible. This also applies to leadership in nursing homes and home care services. It is the nurses who direct the type of services and not the doctors. We are the largest professional group in the healthcare system, she says.
NEAR THE CROWN VIRUS: Nurses in the Ullevål Hospital isolation post before the virus spread remarkably in Norway. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB scanpix
– I did not receive an answer
Larsen immediately wanted the government to reconsider when the commission of inquiry was published last week.
– We have sent a formal letter to the Prime Minister. But we don’t have an answer for that. I have recorded that Erna Solberg has said in the media that it is and will be, says Larsen.
She notes that nurses are close to patients and families throughout the day and that they also have advanced logistics functions.
– You risk not only losing the voice of the nurse, but also the inputs related to the organization and flow of patients. It is seen as an invisible job while health systems work. Few people are aware that nurses are doing this, she says, and the absence of a nursing vote can be dire for the commission’s findings.
ANSWERS: Masud Gharahkhani in the Labor Party believes that it is absolutely incredible that the nurses are not represented on the commission of inquiry. Here with party leader Jonas Gahr Støre regarding another case. Photo: Krister Sørbø / VG
– Damned
The reaction to the Norwegian Nursing Association is supported by Masud Gharahkhani.
The Storting Labor Party representative leans on a Facebook post against the omission of what he calls foot care people.
To VG he says:
– What makes us handle the crisis better than many other countries is the welfare state, but also fantastic people who have been on 24-7 to save lives and health. The fact that one cannot find a place to represent the pediatrician in the health care system is incredible. Then I will be cursed, Gharahkhani tells VG.
He believes that it is crucial to listen more to the people who work in the room to learn from this crisis.
– Here I think Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Minister of Health Bent Høie need to clean up and make sure that the people of the feet, who have worked on this to save lives and health in this situation, also come together, says Gharahkhani, and He adds that he should correct one himself. Formally contact the Prime Minister’s office if something doesn’t happen.
