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For intensive care nurse Katja Fogelberg, who also worked through the first corona wave this spring, the message was heavy.
– It feels like a nightmare that comes back somehow.
Will you be strong?
– You do not know that. What feels horrible is that you play with your own health when you work like this, says Katja Fogelberg.
Intensive care is now being reprogrammed to cope with the number of covid patients that continues to rise in the second wave.
Staff hours changes from three shifts to two shifts, instead of eight or ten hour shifts, there will be work shifts of more than twelve hours. After negotiations with the unions, Vårdförbundet said no, while Kommunal said yes to the longer passes for compensation.
– Our absolute ambition and desire was to go much further with volunteering. Now we see that it is not enough anymore, but we will have to order staff to work these 12.5 hour shifts, says Pauline Rylander Hagson, director of the IVA care unit at Karolinska in Huddinge
different to in spring, when a crisis agreement was activated, there will now be more free time between work shifts.
– What we really see a need is to create opportunities for staff to have these recovery periods on their agenda. We succeed this way, says Pauline Rylander Hagson.
The number of intensive care units in Karolinska has increased from 36 to 44 when a new covid department was opened in Huddinge. Now a new apartment will also open in Solna and the places will be 62 at the end of the week, this spring there were 180 places.
Available now there are no plans to reactivate the crisis agreement. Intensive care nurse Katja Fogelberg, who was previously active in the union, says this would be the worst case scenario.
– I worked four nights and then 12.5 hours each night, and then maybe you had two days off and then you went back to work. It’s a nightmare, she says.
