Satse asks SAS to have necessary nurses to handle flu vaccination campaign – Spain

The Satse Nursing Union of Andalusia this Wednesday asked the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) to have the necessary nursing professionals to cope with the task, in view of the influenza vaccination campaign that starts on October 9, without Reducing the remaining daily care activities of health centers or overloading their professional staff, the number of vaccinations this year increased by 7.5% compared to the previous campaign, reaching 2.2 million doses.

According to Satse, it is therefore necessary for the government to strengthen the nursing workforce and hire dedicated personnel to carry out the flu vaccination campaign, which will also be carried out along with the booster doses of the coronavirus vaccine. health professionals. The vaccination has been added to the bronchiolitis vaccine for children under six months of age, according to a press release from the union.

The union group recalled that nurses “are not limited to administering vaccines, but are professionals responsible for planning, receiving and monitoring the corresponding doses, in addition to monitoring any adverse effects or reactions that may occur in patients.” Address the issue with solvency and protect their healthy.

The nursing union criticized the health authority for “keeping primary care nurses working in chronically overloaded conditions, which has an impact on the physical, mental and emotional health of professionals.”

Suttles stressed that for all these reasons it is “fundamental and necessary” to strengthen the nursing staff in all Andalusian health centers in order to be able to work “in the right conditions” and to be able to “respond in an appropriate way to this situation”. vaccination campaign”. Best way. “

But in addition, the nursing unions also demand that the SAS pay professionals who volunteer to carry out vaccinations in the afternoon, which is at the forefront of the plan to increase the accessibility of health care services to citizens.

Satse emphasized that the remuneration is geared towards activities that take place outside the normal working day, where staff are forced to attend the full agenda of the professional, without being able to compensate for the professional’s possible absence due to lack of availability in recruitment communications situation; in this case, due to the government’s outdated employment exchange policy, the list was retained without being updated and they continued to hire people corresponding to the 2021 cut-off date.

The union concluded by asking SAS to work “with foresight” in this regard, as the implementation of the different planned vaccination campaigns (bronchiolitis, influenza and COVID-19) will mean a “significant increase” in the workload of primary care nurses and therefore “the need Adapt these templates to ensure citizen focus.”