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Healthcare professionals flee after harsh corona months
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Prepared by the crisis in the crown, dissatisfied with working conditions and a feeling of not being appreciated by the management: it makes the health personnel resign now, according to the unions.
Sara Nordin, 36, is one of 30 intensive care nurses from Karolinska Solna who have submitted their request to resign.
– People are ready to cry and run. We will not be able to climb again if we have a new wave.
Kommunal and Vårdförbundet have previously warned of layoffs among health workers in the wake of the pandemic.
In Karolinska, the hospital that cared for the most greedy patients, 30 iva nurses and nursing assistants in Solna have resigned in a few months, department employees testify.
One of them is Sara Nordin, 36. After 14 years in care, she leaves neurointensive for a job as a care teacher.
– It feels good, but I’ll miss it. But the crown has probably caused many of us to re-evaluate our lives. That you have to start prioritizing yourself, your health and your family, he says.
“The pandemic curbs discontent”
The reasons for the layoffs are different: some are completed after six extreme months, with crisis agreements with workweeks of 48 hours, sometimes longer.
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“Corona has probably made us re-evaluate his life,” says Sara Nordin, 36. Now you decide to quit smoking.
For others, the pandemic has diluted a previous dissatisfaction with the work situation and a sense of not being appreciated and heard, according to the Kommunal and Vårdförbundet unions.
Sara Nordin experiences a general lack of sensitivity and understanding of the working conditions of care staff from management. The warning from more than 260 doctors and nursing assistants was the nail in the coffin.
– I’ve been one of those who tried to think it would be good but now I don’t feel that way. It will not be good for us or for our patients.
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“We are done and we need to recover,” says Sara Nordin.
A statement made by the hospital’s human resources manager at Aftonbladet shows management’s lack of understanding, believes Sara Nordin.
– He says that we are well prepared and that we can change again. He’s so arrogant. Who can go back up? We are done and we need to recover.
“Many experienced people have resigned”
Now covid-iva has closed in Karolinska Solna and at this moment it is calmer. But the layoffs are causing concern, says an auxiliary nurse who still works, we can call her Anna.
– Now they start to drip one by one. Many experienced people have resigned. It will soon be noticed in terms of skills. And I think more people will resign soon, says Anna, but she is clear that she understands those who are leaving.
The fact that more than 30 nurses quit a department affects care, according to Emma Jonsson of Vårdförbundet. However, she is not surprised that reports of layoffs are coming in now.
– Now hospitals have a pent-up need for patients in need of planned care, surgery and intensive care. It is the same staff, who have already worked a lot, who are going to do that work, he says.
– If you can choose, it is not surprising that you seek a more planned and calm life.
I will never forget 2020
Both Sara and Anna are concerned about a second corona wave if it arrives soon. Hospitals must be staffed for there to be a chance of recovery, they say.
– It is for many of us who comes now, that you are fragile. Last week we had a covid patient again and people broke up. A colleague panicked when she had to put her protective gear back on.
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The intensive care unit of the Karolinska Hospital in Solna.
Auxiliary nurses will never forget spring and summer 2020 – the long work shifts of family and children. Stressful work with warm protective clothing, protective masks that made breathing difficult, reuse of visors with poor visibility.
People who died without relatives by their side.
– We have seen and experienced things that will remain for a long time. My first patient who died in VAT was an old woman. She was in fluorescent light and we looked like aliens in protective gear, but we tried to be close and hold her hand when she fell asleep, says Sara.
If it’s a second wave, will you come back then?
– I would feel bad if it didn’t help when I know I can and I know I have colleagues who are there. So I probably would.
Marcus Hagström, press secretary at Karolinska University Hospital, writes in a comment that the work environment, reorganization of operations and working hours are the reasons for about half of the layoffs in intensive care.
“It is always sad when talented employees leave, but we also see that about a third change jobs within the hospital. We strive to have the right staff so that we can provide our patients with good care at the right time and that the workload is reasonable for the staff. “
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Sara Nordin has got a new job as a care teacher.
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