Since the pandemic began in the winter of 2020, around 200 nurses in parts south-east (Helse Sør-Øst RHF) began education in the intensive care unit. As of New Year, about 55 of them have completed their education and are ready to go. By summer, 80 new intensive care nurses will be ready to go.
- Lack of staff with the necessary intensive skills was a critical factor during the pandemic, so we have significantly increased the number of educational positions. It is gratifying that more and more of them are now starting to leave their education, says CEO Terje Rootwelt of Health South-East RHF.
An assignment document from the Ministry of Health and Welfare for 2021 for Helse Sør-Øst RHF was commissioned to increase the number of educational positions by 54. Helse Sør-Øst increased the number to 68. In addition to this increase, some 130 nurses were already in an intensive education post when the outbreak broke out. pandemic.
Helse Sør-Øst RHF is currently considering further increasing the number of educational positions.
- We will not only increase the total number in intensive care where we have clearly experienced that it is too low. We will also become less dependent on temporary workers from Denmark and Sweden, says Rootwelt.
“In addition to increasing the number of intensive care nurses, we need to achieve a better division of tasks and a good use of total human resources,” says Rootwelt.
Hopefully, this report will lay the groundwork for better intensive performance in the future, as well as good plans to increase efficiency in the event of pandemics, mass accidents and other incidents that require reprioritization and the organization of intensive services.
Photo: Anders Bayer / University Hospital Oslo HF
Source: Helse Sør-Øst RHF
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