Elisa, Nurse: “They called me to the ASL, I got leave, but no one answers me for hiring, do I call the police?”. – AssoCareNews.it

The letter from Elisa, Nurse, makes us reflect on the methods of recruiting health personnel in Italy: “they called me to the ASL for an anti-Covid warning, I got leave, but no one answers me for hiring, do I call the police?”.

Dearest Director of AssoCareNews.it,

I have been following her for a couple of years and I know what her attention is towards issues such as the one I am going to represent here. I explain. My name is Elisa (invented name), I’m 31, and I’m a Nurse. I have been living and working in the North for some time, where I have won more than one competition and I am a permanent employee of a well-known public health company.

A few weeks ago I attended a Public Notice for Nurses and I therefore decided to make myself available to my South for the fight against Coronavirus.

A few days ago I was called by the ASL for this Notice and I gave my availability by also signing a document for a specific assistance area (obviously in the Covid Area).

On the same day, I sent a PEC to my company and after a week I got 12 months’ leave, as requested. The contract was renewable for up to 36 months.

I would like to point out that getting a leave of absence from work being a Nurse these days is practically impossible.

I was happy, I was finally going home. I organized a move and sent all my belongings down south to my parents’ house.

Immediately afterwards I tried to contact the ASL Personnel Office: I did it on the phone, by email, via PEC, personally going to the company, but nothing at all. No one has ever answered so far.

I have been on leave since December 1st and to date I do not know if and where I will take up service. I don’t answer the phone, they ignore the PEC, I’m desperate.

How should I behave? I also thought of sending the Carabinieri to find out if everyone died in that office or if they are, we hope, alive and well.

With the excuse of Covid, I have the impression that strange things happen in the offices of public health companies, they are in fact calling at random from my ranking, offering voice contracts that then do not turn into written contracts. And they don’t answer, it seems to be facing an impassable wall.

Are we nurses, health professionals or mere numbers to use at will? Many of my colleagues have also resigned, having not obtained the leave they did not know how and what to do and today they find themselves without work and probably without a fixed-term assignment announced via PEC and never materialized.

I don’t know what to do, I’m disappointed, I feel vilified from the bottom, nobody helps us and even the Nursing Orders seem powerless in the face of so much power of those who should favor themselves, but they throw us into despair.

Thanks for taking my outburst.

Elisa, the Nurse-Doormat

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