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Nurse on plans for the Corona care bonus: "That's unfair!"

2022-01-21T05:01:51.931Z


Nurse on plans for the Corona care bonus: "That's unfair!" Created: 01/21/2022, 05:49 am By: Josef Ametsbichler Brigitte Gilg, nurse in Ebersberg, in front of the district clinic. © Peter Kees A hefty bonus for nursing staff who are particularly stressed in the corona pandemic? Criticism of these plans from Berlin stirs in Ebersberg - from a nurse. Ebersberg – The Berlin traffic light coaliti


Nurse on plans for the Corona care bonus: "That's unfair!"

Created: 01/21/2022, 05:49 am

By: Josef Ametsbichler

Brigitte Gilg, nurse in Ebersberg, in front of the district clinic.

© Peter Kees

A hefty bonus for nursing staff who are particularly stressed in the corona pandemic?

Criticism of these plans from Berlin stirs in Ebersberg - from a nurse.

Ebersberg

– The Berlin traffic light coalition has promised a billion euros for the so-called nursing bonus: A special payment to nursing staff in recognition of their achievements in the corona pandemic. Brigitte Gilg has been working as a nurse at the Ebersberg district clinic since 2005, she says. She finds: In its planned form, this care bonus does more harm than good. "You don't gain employees that way, but alienate others who are already there," she says.

The nurse explains that she works as a “stand-in” at the clinic, rotating through the departments from geriatrics to internal to palliative care or intensive care, depending on where help is needed.

She is annoyed by an announcement by Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD).

According to this, the care bonus – a low to medium five-digit amount and a higher tax allowance for bonus payments are under discussion – should only be paid to “particularly stressed” caregivers.

In addition to the intensive care nurses, this probably also means those who work in the corona wards or in the emergency rooms.

Bonus for "particularly stressed nurses": "What the cleaning lady dragged garbage bags..."

"I don't want to deny what is being done there," says Gilg.

"But no one from the other departments took it back." After all, the other wards would have cushioned the high staffing requirements and nursing costs on the Corona wards.

"And what the cleaning staff dragged garbage bags...", says Gilg with a view to the material battle of disposable gowns, masks and so on.

"They all fall down," she fears, if Lauterbach's plans are implemented in this way.

"That's unfair!" Some of the clinic team would have signaled: That's enough.

Station skipper Gilg does not know whether she will receive the care bonus herself.

Much is still unclear, but resentment is forming.

"It's a pity when these efforts are being sabotaged on the ground at the desk"

The 51-year-old breaks a lance for her long-term employer: "I'm so happy in Ebersberg," she says, describing a family atmosphere in the clinic staff that doesn't exist in larger hospitals.

Management and care management have not only been trying to promote cohesion and good working conditions since the pandemic.

"It's a pity when these efforts are sabotaged on site at the desk," says Brigitte Gilg, referring to the decision-makers in Munich and Berlin.

Scholz and Söder: Is there a rethinking in politics?

Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) seems to have heard similar signals: newly arrived in the role of head of a Berlin opposition party, he recently called for the care bonus to be paid out to all caregivers. Presumably, this also means employees in retirement homes, facilities for people with disabilities or in mobile care services. Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) recently spoke of the search for a "fair, good solution" without giving any more details. It shouldn't just be a "one-off action".

While nursing multi-talent Gilg and her colleagues are waiting for the details, the Steinhöringer remembers another injustice: the approaching ban on the employment of unvaccinated nurses.

"I much prefer unvaccinated people who wear masks and follow the rules to vaccinated people who are careless and put their heads together," says Gilg.

Vaccination for nursing staff: "It annoys me when it only affects certain people!"

She was vaccinated three times herself and was always one of the first to pick up the injection.

And she saw what the Delta variant had done in particular: "So many young people without previous illnesses..." But she also says: "The unvaccinated ones worked the same way." to terminate, but only to release without reference, is to be welcomed.

Brigitte Gilg sums up her anger about the care bonus and compulsory vaccination in one sentence: "It annoys me when it only affects certain people!"

You can read more news from the Ebersberg region here.

By the way: everything from the region is also available in our regular Ebersberg newsletter. 

Source: merkur

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