MUMN is issuing a directive with immediate effect to ignore completely the memo “Escalating Security measures in Open wards in SVP”.

 

MUMN expects that such a memo with so high implications on the nursing staff and residents  be thoroughly discussed with MUMN BEFORE it is even issued. Not to mention that such memo is inhumane on the residents in SVP.

 

Nurses cannot be held responsible if any resident leaves the ward since nurses are not door attendants. Shifting the onus of responsibilities on nurses is illegal since Medical and non-medical staff can enter or leave any open ward and do not lock the doors behind them.

 

Besides, the compliment of an open ward is very much less than that of a closed ward in SVP so there is never sufficient staff in the open ward (or in SVP for that matter) to accompany patients outside such wards.

 

These are some of the issues but there are other major issues which MUMN disagrees on in such memo. Such memo even does not make sense at all even if SVP was licenced as a Hospital. SVP is not a prison.

 

So until further notice such memo is to be ignored and continue treating your residents as usual.

 

 

Paul Pace                                                            Colin Galea

President                                                               Gen. Sec.