Posted on Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 9:56 p.m.
The management of the nursing departments of 14 hospitals of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation are demanding the withdrawal of a royal decree published on May 4, relating to the exercise of the art of nursing by unqualified health personnel subject to prior training. “This is the most complete outrage,” said the signatories in an open letter released on Tuesday.
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They criticize the Minister of Public Health, Maggie De block, “under the pretext of a badly anticipated health crisis and insufficiently endowed nursing supplies”, to sweep “with the back of a hand, the multiple complex skills but necessary to exercise the nursing profession in all its bio-psycho-social dimensions by reducing it to a simple performer of acts ”.
For the office of the directorates of the nursing departments, which brings together those of the Saint-Luc, Erasmus, Epicura university clinics, the CHR of the Citadel in Liège or the Charleroi University Hospital, nursing professionals, on the front line of the fight against Covid-19, “need the support of the political world and not a blatant lack of recognition”.
Already challenged by the unions and the General Union of Nurses of Belgium (UGIB) on this controversial decree, the minister said Monday that she hoped not to have to use it, like another decree published the same day on the requisition of health professionals to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic until the end of the year.
In addition to the withdrawal of the decree concerned, the nursing departments demand that a “real concertation with the sector” be implemented in order to meet the challenges to come. “It is essential that a concerted planning policy of needs and means in terms of health be initiated in order to provide quality care to our patients while ensuring the safety and well-being of our teams. We want real structural measures and not a stopgap measure that deludes the population, ”they conclude.
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