– I take on tasks that are completely unnecessary for the nurses, so nurses can focus on their work, such as blood tests and whatever else is needed, explains Ignacio Figueroa. He pours milk into the tomato soup that will soon be served at the Kommunal Akutt 24-hour unit in Oslo. Health graduates wash and clean Figueroa works as a service worker to relieve nurses and other trained health personnel. He has experience from a nursing home in Vestland, but has struggled to get a job in Oslo. Oslo municipality, like other Norwegian municipalities, has a constant high need for health personnel. Projections show that Norway may lack as many as 28,000 nurses in 2035. But when the municipality of Oslo surveyed what nurses and health personnel are used for on a daily basis, it turned out that they are used for tasks that do not require education: Washing beds, dusting, kitchen tasks, replenishment of materials in laboratories, for example. – We see that we cannot continue in this way any longer, we do not have the resources for that, says Saliba Andreas Korkunc, councilor for health in Oslo municipality from the Conservative Party. City council for health in Oslo Saliba Andreas Korkunc (H) constantly lacks health personnel for the municipality’s units, a new project shows that unemployed people like Ignacio Figueroa can be part of the solution. Photo: Christian Ziegler Remme / news Hired long-term unemployed In “Project division of tasks” contact the municipality Nav. – The project ensures that people who are in long-term unemployment, and who do not have such a high level of professional competence, can get a foothold in working life, says city councilor for social services Julianne Ferskaug (V). In this way, health personnel can be freed up to work on health tasks, while people who have been unemployed for a long time get back into work. – This is a win-win for the whole city, says the city council. So far, two of the three long-term unemployed who have worked for the 24-hour unit have found permanent jobs there. When the long-term unemployed can do tasks that nurses and health personnel don’t have time for, it’s a win-win, says city councilor for social services Julianne Ferskaug (V). Photo: Christian Ziegler Remme / news Most positive Ward nurse Cyrell Reyes sees both advantages and disadvantages in the division of tasks at the Municipal acute inpatient unit. – The nurses get more time. They can focus on doing what they are supposed to do, which is patient care. Bed washing and kitchen tasks are neutral tasks that anyone can do. By removing it from the nurses, they don’t have to stress that there are things that need to be done that someone else can do. Ward nurse Cyrell Reyes thinks it’s nice that nurses don’t have to prepare rooms and wash beds Photo: Christian Ziegler Remme / news The disadvantage of removing the tasks completely is that nurses and health personnel cannot use, for example, kitchen service to vary the tasks, Reyes points out. Leader of the Nurses’ Association, Lill Sverresdatter Larsen, believes that division of tasks is absolutely necessary: - We support all such measures which enable the nurses’ expertise to be used where it is best suited, namely clinically and in relation to patients and management. Leader of the Nurses’ Association Lill Sverresdatter Larsen cheers on all measures that allow nurses to concentrate on nursing Photo: SUNNIVA TONSBERG GASKI / SUNNIVA TONSBERG GASKI – Spread out in the rest of the country City council for health Saliba Andreas Korkunc hopes that the rest of Norway will look to Oslo. – Both the state and municipalities can learn from what is happening here in Oslo. We need to get more people into working life, we need to get more health personnel. Then this is a very good solution, which should also be able to be rolled out in the rest of the country. Oslo municipality has ended the project on the inpatient unit, but still has three projects with division of tasks ongoing: In nursing homes, home care and adapted housing, the city council’s department for social services informs. Ignacio Figueroa washes and prepares equipment so that the nurses can spend time with the patients. Published 19.08.2024, at 21.40
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