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Employee Survey: Staff Shortages in Psychiatry - Patients Are Forcibly Fixed

2019-09-09T09:16:27.161Z


In many psychiatric hospitals, many employees complain about staff shortages: According to a survey, patients must be held more often with straps than necessary. Employees also complain about attacks on themselves.



In psychiatry almost half of the employees are regularly physically attacked. This is the result of a survey of the service union Verdi, which is the dpa news agency. Accordingly, clinics often have personnel shortages that require patients to be forcibly fixed.

Verdi had interviewed more than 2300 psychiatric workers in 168 hospitals in Germany. The background is that on September 19, an important decision on staffing in psychiatric hospitals should fall.

The Federal Joint Committee wants to decide on guidelines for staffing in psychiatry. This is the highest decision-making body of self-government in health care. Verdi board member Sylvia Bühler warned, signals from the Federal Committee so far pointed in the wrong direction. "The staff urgently needs to be increased," Bühler said.

According to the survey, more than three-quarters of psychiatric workers find that their line-up is short or too low. Verdi had asked for experiences in the past four weeks.

The results in detail:

  • More than two-thirds of employees believe that about half or almost all of the coercive measures they have been on duty during this period would have been avoidable with more staff. Forced measures mean that patients can be held in place with straps so that they do not endanger themselves or others.
  • Three out of four employees said they had at least one coercive measure, half of them at least once a week. One fifth of respondents reported that they experienced such a coercive measure in virtually every service.
  • More than 80 percent of respondents said that an attended outcome for patients was only partially or not possible when needed.
  • More than 75 percent of employees, according to the survey, can not imagine working in the current staff situation until retirement in psychiatry.

Verdi wants to draw attention on Tuesday with a nationwide day of action in numerous facilities on the precarious staff situation in psychiatric hospitals. The goal: to increase the time allocated to employees per patient.

Source: spiegel

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