Asp Ragusa, the Nursind: "Chaos in ambulance transport"

Ragusa, chaos in the secondary ambulance transport service of the Asp. The Nursind reports growing critical issues: nurses are subjected to morning checks on the vehicles, operational discrepancies are recorded between one facility and another, and personal protective equipment is lacking.

The union urges a structural solution, which involves strengthening the staff by adding 6 nurses in the three main facilities, dedicated solely to the secondary transport service.

In particular, a provision from the hospital “Guzzardi” in Vittoria is under scrutiny, which states that every morning at the start of the shift, an emergency room nurse, identified and delegated by the nursing coordination, conducts a thorough check of each ambulance.

According to Nursind, it seems truly paradoxical that, in order to delegate responsibilities clearly indicated in the procedure, the emergency room nurses are overloaded with additional work, who already, as noted not only locally but nationally, are facing significant organizational difficulties, further increasing work-related stress. Moreover, we do not understand the logical and scientific reasoning behind this provision, as, in compliance with it, the emergency room nurse must check the ambulance that will anyway be used by other staff during daytime hours and managed by the health management itself.

The union also reports that the application of the procedure occurs in a totally heterogeneous manner across the three main Asp facilities, also highlighting the inconsistency on the part of Asp and the clinical risk service in applying the same procedure without actually providing personal protective equipment to employees.

It adds: If at the “Guzzardi” the health director seems to have requested sizes for a quote on the purchase of equipment upon the Nursind's report, elsewhere everything is silent.