The Andalusian Health Service (SAS) has failed the awards of the contest to recognize initiatives on Prevention of Occupational Risks in health workers and has awarded the Hospital Reina Sofía de Córdoba for the initiative aimed at workers with breast cancer , while it has awarded second prizes to the Osuna Hospital (Seville) for promoting a one-stop shop for pregnant or lactating professionals, and to Torrecárdenas (Almería) for a menopause care program.
The awards distinguish innovative actions related to the prevention of occupational risks in SAS workers, which are carried out in health centers, and which highlight the ability of health professionals to generate knowledge in this area of Risk Prevention Labor.
The jury assesses the originality of the initiative, its impact on the safety and output of health workers and the possibility of implantation in the other centers of the Andalusian Public Health System.
The first prize, with € 1000, went to the School-Workshop on Breast Cancer, for the workers of the Reina Sofia University Hospital in Córdoba. The initiative gets them to support the professionals during the process and to guide them in their return to work, promoting home rehabilitation as well.
The workshop is structured in three didactic units, in which the therapeutic approach of breast cancer, early diagnosis, treatment options, surgical techniques and possible sequelae are addressed, with the intervention of a group of doctors from the various specialties of the Breast Unit, and the rehabilitation treatment of the center and other topics of interest to professional assistants.
This information is included in the ‘Manual on Breast Cancer for healthcare professionals’. The results obtained are very satisfactory, as the surveys showed.
From the center, it is expected to continue with the training, including the approach to the labor perspective in the following editions and thus, evaluate the effectiveness of these workshop schools through a validated scale that measures the knowledge and attitudes about breast pathology of the attendees pre and post-training.
The two second prize, € 500 each, went to the Osuna Hospital, through the one-stop shop for pregnant and lactating professionals. Also for the Torrecárdenas Hospital (Almería), for the work of a resident nurse of Work Nursing on care for professionals in menopause.
The Osuna Health Management Area has promoted the ‘One-stop shop for pregnant women and lactation in the Osuna Health Management Area’ to respond to the concerns that have been generated in professionals when they are pregnant or in the time of breastfeeding, for the ignorance of Procedure 30 of the Sgprl or provision of the INSS. They have to develop two procedures: that of Adaptation to the Job, with the Occupational Risk Prevention Unit, and the provision of risk in pregnancy or lactation, with the INSS.
The procedures have a constant exchange of documentation between the different services of the Center, in such a way that it is proposed that all the procedures and procedures derived from pregnancy and breastfeeding are carried out through the authorized Window, which seeks to synthesize and unify the indicated steps , concentrating it on a single interlocutor.
To carry out the process, an awareness and training of intermediate positions must be carried out and the professionals in IT derived from pregnancy must be identified. Professionals in this situation are assigned a member of the Occupational Risk Prevention Unit who will keep their file and will be their interlocutor, including to provide medical documentation (with prior consent) or to manage the financial benefit with the INSS. With this initiative, the pregnant professional is facilitated the management of their rights.
The Torrecárdenas Hospital has been distinguished for the work carried out by a resident nurse of Work Nursing to promote a health program aimed at SAS workers in the menopausal period. The volume of women aged between 45 and 55 years in the centers is very high, so it is necessary to favor specific care.
The appearance of symptoms such as hot flashes, vaginal discomfort, bleeding or hormonal changes that cause irritability, justifies the need for the program to expand the knowledge of the workers and to be able to use the tools and resources necessary to improve their quality of life and work performance.
This proposal frames the perspective of primary prevention and could stimulate women to generate good eating habits, with physical exercise and the elimination of harmful habits and correction of imbalances in blood pressure, weight, cholesterol or blood glucose , important elements to predict cardiovascular risk. In the psychological field, the program provides measures to reduce the risk of suffering from depression and burnout.
Women are 71.35% of the SAS staff, with 78,825 women who perform their work daily, both in primary care centers and hospitals. In addition, women with a fixed position account for 66.54% and female managers are 48.03% of the total.
By professional category, women are 77.6% nurses, 93.5% nursing assistants. 57.12% of the workforce are women, that is, a total of 21,027 women.
In the case of non-health personnel, 76.16% of Management and Services are women. The professional category with the best presence of women is Maintenance personnel, with 37.76%.
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