“If there are too many doctors, let them reactivate the non-urgent services that are currently being provided only in private”. This is the appeal that the regional secretariat of Anaao Assomed Piemonte after the news that they would like – in recent days – to use doctors as nurses in our region.
“All doctors – continues Anaao – even with specialties not strictly related to Covid clinical pictures, are taking care of Covid patients. Orthopedists, cardiologists, surgeons. With consequent suspension of all interventions and non-urgent and non-life-saving visits, but however linked to relevant pathologies. Now the latest circular of the Dirmei provides that doctors can be assigned nursing duties “.
“We then ask the patients, who have been postponed for visits, examinations and interventions if they agree that the hospital doctors who should have treated them are now being used for tasks that do not belong to them, instead of continuing to do their work. efficient organization makes the best use of professional skills, certainly not demeaning them “.
“If there are really too many doctors, who are reactivated, then the non-urgent services, which at the moment are being provided only by the private sector, causing a very serious inequality in access to care. Assigning nursing tasks to hospital doctors also constitutes an abuse of profession : also by law you have to do the job for which you are paid and for which you studied “.
The conclusion is severe: “We are trying to plug badly the forecast and organizational inability of the past months, and of the past years, to the detriment of everyone’s professionalism and optimal patient care”.
And if criticisms also come from the Order of doctors, clear rejection is the position that comes from the Coordination of nursing professions orders: “The profession of nurse cannot be improvised. The skills must be respected as the field of activity is determined by the professional profile , from the didactic organization and from the code of ethics, says Massimiliano Sciretti, president of the Order of Nursing Professions of Turin. “We believe that there are very different ways to go – adds Sciretti -. Since there is an undoubted shortage of graduates, why not first involve the nursing students of recent years before turning to other professional categories? In our opinion, hospitals, emergency rooms, medical offices and health facilities should also be equipped with administrative personnel in order to relieve nurses and doctors from those practices. This would be useful to make the categories that are in contact with the sick in this moment of health emergency even more operational “.
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