Post by account_disabled on Feb 28, 2024 3:20:58 GMT -5
On Tuesday, January pm on a floor of the La Paz Hospital, the patients and nursing technicians desperately called the union delegates they knew. A colleague reported a few hours before that she had been infected with and therefore could not come to work that night. Due to her lack of personnel, it was not possible to replace her. The on-call supervisor asked the nurses who were working that afternoon if any of them were interested in double shifts, working 17 hours straight, to fill the position. Exhausted after almost two years of pandemic, with many people working overtime vaccinating or doing antigen tests, no one had the strength to face so many consecutive hours of work. So they were told that the position would remain unfilled. This meant leaving a single nurse in charge of 32 patients all night. In this case, a classmate who had finished her degree 15 months ago. Finally, she was transferred to a nurse on another floor, who was in charge of any endoscopies that could be urgently performed during the night, leaving her position unattended. The day before in the COVID ICU of this same hospital, three nursing technicians cared for 18 critical and semi-critical covid patients. There should have been five, but two positions were left empty due to unreplaced absences and transfers to other services to cover incidents.
At that same moment, a room in the emergency service had been closed for several days because its staff had been used as reinforcement in the rooms for covid patients. Hospitals such as Alcalá, Doce de Octubre or La Paz offered paid dubbing as overtime on those dates. At the Ramón y Cajal hospital, part of the emergency staff was transferred to another area of Malta Phone Number the hospital to perform antigen tests. During the sixth wave, a serious crisis of lack of health personnel is occurring in Madrid During the sixth wave, a serious crisis of lack of health personnel is occurring. The regional government barely mentions it, and it is rarely discussed in the media. Maintaining the feeling of normality, the message that this wave is under control, is prioritized. But the harsh reality is that there is no personnel to cover the needs of the Madrid Public Health Service. Those of us who work in healthcare see daily the tensions that the system is suffering. Uncovered casualties, exhaustion, infected colleagues. In this context, many people accept overtime, thinking that it is the only way to manage the flood of patients, relieve a little of the burden on the rest of their colleagues and.
in the process, earn more money. However, these dubs are bad for your health, bad for your well-being, harmful to the employment rights of all of us and even harmful to your own career prospects. Let's explain why. HAVOC ON HEALTH A study from University College London found that working more than 55 hours a week for 10 years increases the risk of atrial fibrillation by 40%. Another study, published in PLOS ONE in January 2012, reveals that regularly working more than 11 hours a day more than doubles the risk of suffering from depression. The scientific journal Neurobiology of Aging published that those who have irregular work schedules due to shift work or extended hours saw their results worsen in cognitive impairment tests. A report from the Madrid Occupational Health Secretariat of CCOO concluded that 13.74% of hospital admissions and 15.8% of cardiology consultations are caused by exposures in the workplace. In the Community of Madrid, the 2.7 million unpaid overtime hours carried out in 2019 represent 67,000 lost jobs Reducing the working day is one of the most important struggles of the labor movement since Robert Owen launched his famous proposal in 1817: “eight hours to work, eight hours for leisure, eight hours to sleep.” A shorter day reduces stress and affects family balance, especially in the case of women who still face a double shift (work and family care). It is no coincidence that the amount of overtime worked in Spain continues to increase each year, while workers lose strength and labor rights.
At that same moment, a room in the emergency service had been closed for several days because its staff had been used as reinforcement in the rooms for covid patients. Hospitals such as Alcalá, Doce de Octubre or La Paz offered paid dubbing as overtime on those dates. At the Ramón y Cajal hospital, part of the emergency staff was transferred to another area of Malta Phone Number the hospital to perform antigen tests. During the sixth wave, a serious crisis of lack of health personnel is occurring in Madrid During the sixth wave, a serious crisis of lack of health personnel is occurring. The regional government barely mentions it, and it is rarely discussed in the media. Maintaining the feeling of normality, the message that this wave is under control, is prioritized. But the harsh reality is that there is no personnel to cover the needs of the Madrid Public Health Service. Those of us who work in healthcare see daily the tensions that the system is suffering. Uncovered casualties, exhaustion, infected colleagues. In this context, many people accept overtime, thinking that it is the only way to manage the flood of patients, relieve a little of the burden on the rest of their colleagues and.
in the process, earn more money. However, these dubs are bad for your health, bad for your well-being, harmful to the employment rights of all of us and even harmful to your own career prospects. Let's explain why. HAVOC ON HEALTH A study from University College London found that working more than 55 hours a week for 10 years increases the risk of atrial fibrillation by 40%. Another study, published in PLOS ONE in January 2012, reveals that regularly working more than 11 hours a day more than doubles the risk of suffering from depression. The scientific journal Neurobiology of Aging published that those who have irregular work schedules due to shift work or extended hours saw their results worsen in cognitive impairment tests. A report from the Madrid Occupational Health Secretariat of CCOO concluded that 13.74% of hospital admissions and 15.8% of cardiology consultations are caused by exposures in the workplace. In the Community of Madrid, the 2.7 million unpaid overtime hours carried out in 2019 represent 67,000 lost jobs Reducing the working day is one of the most important struggles of the labor movement since Robert Owen launched his famous proposal in 1817: “eight hours to work, eight hours for leisure, eight hours to sleep.” A shorter day reduces stress and affects family balance, especially in the case of women who still face a double shift (work and family care). It is no coincidence that the amount of overtime worked in Spain continues to increase each year, while workers lose strength and labor rights.