Unscheduled Service of IPO Lisboa was at risk of closure. Last minute stopovers guaranteed – Observer
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The shortage of nurses at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology (IPO) Lisbon was at 11 pm during the summer, at night (between 8 am and 8 am), unscheduled care — an emergency care service for oncologists . The information even circulated internally among the heads of the nursing teams, found the Observer, but it was a false alarm. Official source at the institute confirmed that as a stopover for the weekend, the official service will continue to operate normally.
Unscheduled care is for IPO patients who are on active treatment for an oncologic disease. Under normal conditions, the service operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and receives users who have serious conditions because of the disease itself or the treatments that are applied to treat it. This normality was at risk due to a lack of health professionals.
According to the Observer, the heads of the services of IPO Lisboa received this Friday an email from the head nurse of the Non-Scheduled Care, realizing that, due to the lack of nurses to fill the service scales, he would remain overnight. . It is because the only health professionals in this service are precisely the nurses; and only in case of need doctors are called.
According to the statements that are sent among the nurses of nurses, the patients who came to the specialty service were not scheduled directly for the specialty service in cases by the doctors who are more followed up or services by the doctors, attended for that night services of the acute service. . It would be like this until the early hours of the morning.
However, according to what they referred to the Observer as a single unit, the email sent even before the president of IPO Lisboa spoke about the matter. After all, the overnight unscheduled resource answering service didn’t come to be. As the official source of the service, even as assured, the official institute’s operation will be ensured.
Service cases are usually few: there are usually around 30 per day and simultaneous service at night. Over the last few years, cases have been considered in the possibility of ending unscheduled care due to the low number of patients who enter that service, but the president of IPO Lisboa insists that it must remain open for more urgent patients. oncology patients Followed up at that institution.