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Speech Language Liability Forms

 

Directives to All Nurses at SVP & Elderly Homes - Speech Language Liability Forms

 

MUMN have made every effort to remove the liability of the Speech Language Liability Forms from all the Nursing Grades. The fact that such forms can lead to  nurses  being summoned to the Police station, interrogated and taken to court when nurses are not to blame, is unacceptable for MUMN. MUMN had requested that additional carers need to be placed on wards who should be managed not by the MNS/Charge Nurses/Nurses on the ward but by the SLPs Management so that all liability will not be on the nurses.

While Steward Health was proactive to give full insurance cover to the nurses even for criminal charges and Steward Health Care even added carers on the wards in KGH. The Health Division (since such issue was being lead by the Health Division and not be the Elderly) found it convenient not to add additional  carers (as to save money) and was comfortable to leave the liability on the nurses and not on the Speech Language Pathologists or on the department itself.

Therefore, it is important to abide to MUMN directives just as KGH nurses had done on the same issue. The same directives are being issued as KGH. The directive is that from the 26th February 2020, nurses on wards in SVP and all Government homes are not to:

 

  1. Not to Ambulate the patients. Nurses are not to participate in ambulation of patients.
  2. All documentation being done during the day is to be stopped. The only documentation to be done is blood glucose charting, nursing report, treatment charting and intake and output charting ONLY.
  3. Nurses are not to remove or check any food from patients and their wards. It is not in the job description of the nurse, nor the charge nurse to remove or search for food in the wards if patients are failing to comply to the SLPs forms.
  4. The current directive to keep sending the SLPs Forms to the Office of the Perm. Sec is still in force.
  5. Nurses are not to go to other wards to replace during break hours during the night.

 MUMN would be informing all nurses working in the Homes and SVP for any update. Important to comply to the directive since Nurses are not the dumping grounds of any other profession and should not be burdened with additional responsibilities.

 Paul Pace

MUMN President

25th February 2020