MUMN is writing to your office regarding the Male General ward in GGH. This is a ward with 32 patients, which besides being an admitting ward for acute patients admits also covid cases in their single room. Such ward should have a staff complement of at least 4 nurses during the night shift if not five nurses when such ward has covid cases.

 

The Nursing management must assure that every night shift 4 nurses need to be present in the Male General ward so that all patients are taken care of in the proper way. Therefore, an effort to reach such compliment has to be made if the ward nurses fail to apply for overtime.

 

While the nursing management is to assure such compliment of 4 nurses, MUMN is issuing a directive that any nurse who works in Male General ward and wants to work overtime in his own ward can do so with the backing of MUMN. All nurses working in the male General ward and opts to work overtime in Male General ward should have the right to retain his ward even when on overtime.

 

Regards,

 

Paul Pace

President