Directives to All Charge Nurses & Nurses at SVP & New SVP Extension Re Quality Assurance 

 

Dear Colleague,

Allow me to inform you that MUMN has been informed that a new group of people are going round the wards in SVP and in the new block of SVP with the result that several verbal warnings are being issued to the Charge Nurses and to other Nurses due to trivial issues. Instead of acknowledging the hard work that these Nurses and Charge Nurses are performing in these sensitive times, we are punishing our heroes!!

 

Nursing is a proud profession and MUMN is not going to allow that employees who does not belong to our profession, attend wards, give orders to our Charge Nurses in result that they are being disciplined on issues that do not pertain to Nurses but to supervisors employed by the private contractor who supplies the food.

 

On this regards MUMN is issuing two industrial directives with immediate effect that the so called “quality assurance” people are to be ignored and that when the so called “orange” boys/girls enter the wards, all Nurses and Charge Nurses are to abandon the ward and do not return back until these employees walk out of the same wards.

 

On a different note, Nurses and Charge Nurses are not responsible on the quantity and quality of the food. Therefore, the second industrial directive is that any checking or any duties related to the quality/quantity of the food is not to be done by any Nurse or Charge Nurse present in all SVP wards and the new block of SVP.

 

It is important that everyone adheres with these Directives so that we safeguard the profession and yourselves.

 

Regards,

 

Colin Galea

General Secretary

MUMN

2^nd February 2021