The Nursing Union, SATSE, has denounced that the Ministry of Health has ignored nurses in the message published within its campaign “Each vaccine in its time” when they are the health professionals on whom the entire vaccination process falls.
SATSE remembers that it is the nurses who lead, manage and administer the vaccination process. After the elimination of the unfortunate message from the Ministry of Health, the Union insists on the need to provide truthful information to the population and for the health authorities to strengthen staff to avoid blocking nursing activity in health centers.
Given the start of the joint flu and COVID-19 vaccination campaign, the union organization insists that the work overload suffered by nurses may lead to the paralysis of certain actions and programs carried out in health centers and the blockade of agendas of these professionals.
Great effort
Primary Care nurses, in addition to caring for acute problems, are responsible for the care of chronic and multi-pathological patients, both in the health center and at home, with the monitoring of the different health programs, something that represents a great effort due to an increasingly aging and pluripathological society. Assistance that cannot be denied or postponed to the population, he points out.
SATSE criticizes the fact that the different health administrations are leading Primary Care nurses to work in a permanent situation of work overload, similar to the one we are experiencing in the post-pandemic, which is having consequences on the physical, mental and emotional health of the nurses. .
In those autonomies where the extension of the ordinary work day is established to achieve the objectives established by the administration in the vaccination campaigns, SATSE will demand the corresponding remuneration recognition and the human, material and structural resources necessary so that they can carry out their work in the right conditions.
Health improvement
The Nursing Union emphasizes that this joint vaccination campaign is a new example of the essential work carried out by nurses within the health system with the main objective of improving the health of the population, with special attention to the most vulnerable groups.
Health authorities have recommended this year the joint administration of the COVID-19 and flu vaccines to people over 60 years of age, to those over 5 years of age who are housed in disability centers and nursing homes, and to pregnant women or during pregnancy. puerperium, in addition to health professionals and certain risk groups.
The flu vaccine is also recommended this year for children between 6 and 59 months of age, students doing internships in health and social care centers, smokers and people exposed to animals for work reasons or those who present a higher risk of complications due to previous or concomitant pathologies.
2023-10-01 07:37:28
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