Since Monday, 13 specialistutbildade nurses on neurointensivvårdsavdelningen (NIVA) at the New Karolinska in Solna, sweden said. This in protest against a new replacement model, which would mean lower compensation.

the Background is that several departments in the hospital to get a closer cooperation. In the ongoing transformation of the planned hospital to replace the current replacement model, where the staff works three shifts, with an increased compensation for inconvenient working hours, with the same model as nursing assistants in other departments are working for.

This has the magazine Kommunalarbetaren previously reported.

the question is loaded up, during nurses have joined together and courting those responsible before the notifications submitted. On Wednesday, the employer announced that the hospital withdraw the decision to terminate the model. Instead, even the other nurses offered to work for the old model until a new agreement is in place between the hospital and the union.

Carina Palovaara is one of them that filed the notice of dismissal and says that the termination of the current remuneration model would mean the 6,000 kronor less a month for her.

” I am proud, I see no problem. Who does not want me, with 35 years of experience, ” she says.

Neuroverksamheten hear Karolinskas highly specialized mission, and parts of the treatment is available only at the Karolinska. Platssituationen and staffing situation at the hospital is very strained, at the same time that the Karolinska has a gigantic savings target, as DN told you about.

Carina Palovaara says that the 13 dismissed nurses would have major consequences for the business, not least if they would all disappear for the summer.

Patients with a stroke who need urgent action, perhaps, would go to the S:t Göran or Danderyd in place, but where there is no neurosurgery. We are sitting on such a excellence that is only found here on the NKS.

Carina Palovaara, she has just received news that the hospital management backing, which she is very happy.

– We are, after all, such a lågstatusgrupp, then this is the only one who bites, to go, in a collected troop, and terminate itself. The expertise that we possess is absolutely huge and we want to protect.

On onsdagseftermiddagen announced the hospital’s press service, the all 13, have withdrawn their notifications. But it is not clear how long they will keep working conditions they fought for.

Markus Atterberg is funktionsområdeschef for the intensive care unit at the New Karolinska in Solna and Huddinge. He says that the reason the hospital now draws back the decision to terminate the model is to be in a position to get in place a local agreement, between the Karolinska university Hospital and Municipal.

– It is both the region and the hospital together that determines what is possible, and previously there were no prerequisites for such an agreement, ” says Atterberg.

He hopes that the agreement should be in place before the end of the year and says he sees problems with the current remuneration model, which he believes drives the employees to work far too much.

– All play a role in this. We need our employees. Patients need access to care.

If the new agreement will mean lower compensation for specialistundersköterskorna he may not answer before all is clear.

” What we want is a contract for a healthy working life. I am very pleased with this development.

förhandlingsansvarig Municipal at the Karolinska university hospital and thinks that the employer has listened in the employees and taken a sensible decision.

the Criticism of the current model drives employees to work far too much, she writes in part, even if the union believes that it is a free choice to work in this way.

“We want an agreement that combines the employees, who are flexible and put up their time and effort, to get both an opportunity to recovery and economic compensation,” she says.

” I think the members understand that there will probably not be an equally beneficial agreement for the wallet, but, for example, short-time working also means a lot.

She says that it will be a big difference for the employees, which is now under a longer period to prepare on and take a position on an upcoming change.

– We can not guarantee that the people nonetheless choose not to stop, but there is a big difference from having three months to adjust to a inkomstsänkning of 25% of gross.

the Reason that the current replacement model come to is, according to the Häggbom to nurses within the intensive care unit working under special conditions.

– A intensivvårdspatient is as sick at three o’clock in the day at three o’clock in the night. Here, you need to have nearly as much staff all hours of the day, which means that there are many more who need to work evenings, weekends and nights in the intensive care unit.