Anesthetic nurses on strike: operations rescheduled at Toulouse University Hospital
The nurse anesthetists have been on strike since November 2 at the national level to demand a revaluation. At the Toulouse University Hospital, the mobilization started this Monday, November 15. Surgeries had to be canceled and rescheduled.
Nursing anesthetists (IADE) are currently mobilized as part of a national movement to defend their specialty and demand a revaluation in connection with their training. At the Toulouse University Hospital Center (CHU), according to management figures, they were 41.59% to have declared themselves strikers on Monday, November 15, for a participation reduced to 23.89%. A sufficiently large mobilization to impact the functioning of the operating theaters despite the assignments. A dozen surgeries had to be canceled and rescheduled.
“It is the announced death of our profession!”
“We want our training, two more than a nurse, to be recognized at its fair value. We work in the areas of anesthesia, resuscitation, emergencies, pain management, ie 3,600 hours after an entrance examination. The government wants to award salary and statutory recognition to advanced practice nurses (IPA) which will unbalance everything and which will mark a difference of € 400 at the end of their career in favor of IPAs. It is the announced death of the IADE! », Launched a nurse who demonstrated on Monday in front of the Pierre-Paul Riquet (PPR) hospital in Purpan. “We are still considering being recognized as medical auxiliaries, but without questioning our anesthetist with the pursuit of the nurse anesthetist, mobilized with the strikers every morning in front of the entrance to PPR ‘on Thursday, November 18, date of the end of the notice.
A delegation of nurse anesthetists will be received this Tuesday, November 16 by the management of the Toulouse University Hospital.