Faced with the lack of nurses, many institutions are struggling to resume normal activity. In addition to the departures of staff, there are an increased absenteeism rate and recruitment difficulties.
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At the hospital, the fourth epidemic wave is beautifully belonging to the past, with a general reflection of the number of patients with CIVID-19, the alert signals have been multiplying for several weeks. Closed beds, vacancies, slow motion blocks … The after-crisis still seems far from the better days, to hear doctors and unions.
“We live a difficult return with a strong tension on human resources,” alert Professor François-René Pruvot, at the head of the Conference of Chairpersons of Chu Institution Medical Commission. In question: the “nursing shortage” faced by many institutions, he points. “Great attractive hospitals have personal problems ever known before, abounds Dr. Thierry Godeau, his counterpart in hospital centers. Everyone comes out of the crisis but without feeling that everyday life improves, on the contrary. “
Closed beds and vacancies
At the forefront of pressure regions: Ile-de-France, submitted well before the CVIV-19 crisis to major recruitment difficulties with its high cost of living. “Since the start of the school year, we are sorely lacking nurses to turn the institutions,” says Didier Jaffre, Director of the Care Offer of the Regional Health Agency, evoking the public as the private. Among the most suffering sectors: pediatrics, neurology, oncology, psychiatry, or geriatrics, “he says.
At Paris (AP-HP) public assistance (AP-HP), there are 520 nurses less in the establishments than a year ago, according to the consolidated figures in early September, for nearly a thousand positions Vacante nurses. The recruitments made during the month of September could not fill this chasm: 820 positions are always to be filled. The impact is major on an offer of care already on the wire: 18% of the beds had to remain closed on the return of the summer. “We are in great difficulty on the night posts, describes Pierre-Emmanuel LeCerf, Deputy Director General. It is enough, on these complicated schedules, few less jobs for having to close a lot of beds.”
In the field, the climate is “morose”, entrusts Olivier Milleon, cardiologist at the Bichat Hospital and spokesman for the Inter-Hospitals Collectif (CIH). “There are many patients to take care of, but no improvement perspective”, “he describes. Several nursing positions are vacant in his own service, but at his neurology neighbors, we are almost no longer in a situation of opening, he reports. Its stage of intensive care of cardiology is thus preparing to welcome some patients coming from neurovascular emergencies to relieve them. A “degraded solution”, he says.
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