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Subtle relief in clinics and homes

2022-12-06T11:10:53.286Z


At the end of the year, compulsory vaccinations for nursing staff will expire. The hospitals and nursing homes hope that this will make the difficult search for new staff easier.


At the end of the year, compulsory vaccinations for nursing staff will expire.

The hospitals and nursing homes hope that this will make the difficult search for new staff easier.

Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen

– Health Minister Karl Lauterbach wanted to protect people in hospitals and care facilities from the corona virus with the facility-related vaccination requirement that came into force in March – and received a lot of criticism for the measure.

Health care workers who refused to have an injection were threatened with being banned from their profession.

They also found the partial vaccination requirement to be unfair.

Her credo: either all or none.

The temporary ordinance is due to expire at the end of the year.

How this affects the general shortage of workers in the healthcare sector remains to be seen.

District clinic accesses foreign specialists

Ingo Kühn first makes it clear that no employee in the Wolfratshauser district clinic has given notice because of the partial vaccination requirement.

However, according to the managing director, it is generally “extremely difficult” to “find specialist staff.

We also use foreign specialists, and new hires were also required to be vaccinated.

We shouldn't have hired anyone without proof of vaccination." Kühn fears that the majority of employees who have been lost to the healthcare system due to the Corona crisis will not return.

"Therefore, we do not expect any noticeable simplification in the acquisition of employees." According to Kühn, this problem can only be solved by the legislature.

Demands, for example, for significantly better pay for nursing staff have existed for a long time.

In the Asklepios Stadtklinik Bad Tölz, "a few employees have resigned from all professional groups," admits press spokesman Christopher Horn.

One is therefore glad "that we were able to gain new colleagues despite the obligation to vaccinate".

Which is currently not an easy task, according to Horn: "Due to the already tight labor market before the pandemic - there are around 70,000 nursing staff in the system nationwide - and the ever-increasing workload, it is very difficult to fill vacancies, especially in high-priced regions."

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Although his house has always "clearly advertised the benefits of vaccination", Horn continues to criticize the facility-related obligation: It was "not the right approach" because the debate "was carried out on the backs of colleagues in the healthcare sector " became.

Horn expects the phasing out to have a positive effect.

"It's still very difficult to get lost staff back, especially since some have changed jobs" or even left the country, for example for Switzerland.

Among other things, outpatient care falls within the area of ​​responsibility of Wolfgang Schweiger, district manager of Caritas.

Although he did not have to accept any layoffs here, “individual employees had given some thought to this”.

Their concerns could be “resolved well in discussions”.

The same applies to the sectors of the specialist outpatient clinic for addiction and the social psychiatric service.

Schweiger also speaks of a generally more difficult search for personnel.

The compulsory vaccination “has unsettled a lot of applicants”.

As a result, Caritas was unable to hire two applicants for outpatient care, "although there was and still is an urgent need".

The managing director is all the more hoping for a slight relaxation.

But the basic problem is not solved:

In general, there is a shortage of skilled workers “in almost all areas of social work – especially in nursing.

Whether there is a return for individuals is difficult to estimate.

The pandemic has highlighted the weaknesses inherent in the care system.” It will be important whether, after the initial “clapping” of the caregivers during the Corona crisis, there will be a fundamental change in recognition and image in the professional field and for the caregivers.

"People in the country need to look at this valuable and meaningful work differently, which will lead to career decision-makers and career changers opting for this occupational field in the future." Because one thing is certain: "In an aging society, this field of work has a future." Schweiger makes politics responsible:

The pandemic was a "fire accelerator".

The legislature must create the basis as quickly as possible "to reduce the burden on those employed in care, to attract people to the interesting, people-oriented field of work and to reduce the time pressure."

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A nurse has left the Tölzer Pater Rupert Mayer home due to compulsory vaccination.

"Most of the employees were very conscientious and had themselves vaccinated against Covid," says Larisa Leitner.

The dismissal of this caregiver was regrettable, according to the home manager, but "it did not present us with any major challenges in terms of work".

Filling a vacancy is part of everyday life.

Leitner expects “no queues of new applicants on our doorstep because of the expiry of the obligation.

The issue of personnel acquisition in nursing was and is a problem that accompanies us, regardless of compulsory vaccination or the pandemic.

New ideas and motivations on the part of the legislator would be an advantage here.”

The AWO senior center welcomes applications

Regrettably, as manager Frank Hörmann emphasizes, an employee at the AWO senior citizens’ center on Wolfratshauser Paradiesweg also resigned because he did not want to be vaccinated.

You could compensate for the loss of this force.

And in fact, nothing came of some applications because the nurses concerned “did not fulfill the vaccination requirement”.

With the end of this, Hörmann hopes “that it will be easier again to attract staff.

We have been intensifying our efforts to find new colleagues for some time now and are trying to break new ground here on site for our facility.” Hörmann is happy about any contact with interested nursing staff – including a report like this in the newspaper “.

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Source: merkur

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