Trade union leader Paula Lykke believes that more must be done to retain the intensive care nurses who worked during the pandemic, or to mobilize those who left before the pandemic.
– We have also commissioned the health regions to strengthen the work of recruiting, developing and retaining intensive care nurses in the hospitals on short notice. , medium and long term. In this way, we plan to improve the ordinary intensive capacity.
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is starting to get very tired of hearing that 100 new intensive education positions have been created for nurses, all the time it does not solve anything in the short term, says Lykke and continues: – It takes two years for an intensive care nurse to complete a master’s degree. At the same time, no measures are being taken to retain those who worked during the pandemic, or to mobilize those who had left before the pandemic.