Nursing personnel subordinate: ver.di criticizes the claim of the DKG and demands binding nursing staff regulation 2.0
Nursing personnel subordinate: ver.di criticizes the claim of the DKG and demands binding nursing staff regulation 2.0
The criticism of ver.di of the demand of the German hospital company
The United Service Union (ver.di) has practiced sharp criticism of the demands of the German Hospital Society (DKG) to abolish the nursing staff lower limits in clinics. This advance comes into lack of lack of understanding at ver.di, since the nursing staff under limits are regarded as the absolute minimum that should not be undercut. According to ver.di federal board member Sylvia Bühler, a lack of personnel in nursing can cost human lives. However, the lower limits for nursing staff are not based on the actual need for care for the patients, but on the 25 percent of hospitals with the worst staffing in the respective departments. A abolition of the lower limits would therefore not only be irresponsible, but also a step backwards for the care of the patients and for the relief of nursing staff.
Instead,ver.di calls for the binding introduction of nursing staff control 2.0 (PPR 2.0), which enables the patient's need for care to calculate the care needs in a station in the hospital. Currently there is only a comparison between the actual and the required staff for needs -based care. However, Sylvia Bühler emphasizes that it is necessary to determine a binding schedule for achieving the target personnel occupation to ensure that the missing personnel are not only on paper, but is actively working on improved staffing. However, as long as the non-compliance with PPR 2.0 for hospitals has no consequences, the nursing staff subordinate borders should be maintained as an absolute lower limit.
In order to relieve nursing staff of unnecessary documentation effort, ver.di also calls for a standardization of data collection and increased digitization of hospitals. Urgently needed investments are required. By simplification and digitization of the documentation, nurses can raise more time for their actual task, the care of the patients.
The required abolition of the nursing staff is criticized by ver.di and regarded as a step backwards for patient care and nursing staff. Instead, the union calls for the binding introduction of nursing staff control 2.0 and investments in the digitization of hospitals to relieve nursing staff.
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