The Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete, announced on Wednesday that he signed a new continuous training and assessment program for medical staff in intensive care units, financed by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). It is about the National Training of Trainers Program for ATI nurses, designed as a support tool.
“I have said it many times and I say it again, with all responsibility: people work in ATI, not robots. People who make vital decisions, under constant pressure, for hours on end, sometimes at the limit of human resistance. I also said a few months ago, clearly and unequivocally: for the control of nosocomial infections we need concrete measures, not just findings and political words. Enough opinions have been given. Many years”, the minister said in a post on Facebook.
“Today, we signed a new training and constant evaluation program for medical personnel, financed from PNRR. The National Training of Trainers Program for ATI nurses. It is not a control program, nor a theoretical one. It is a real support program. It is about stopping a little, looking again at the daily gestures, at the reflexes that we acquire over time and how we can make them safer — for the patient and for us. It’s about ATI colleagues helping other ATI colleagues. People who speak the same professional language and who know exactly the pressure in the department.” emphasizes the minister.
Alexandru Rogobete showed that, in addition to this new program, the order of operation of the ATI sections was also modified, being introduced in the personnel structure the functions of an epidemiologist dedicated to the section and a medical assistant responsible for the prevention and control of infections.
About the new training program, the minister specified that it aims to develop a national network of ATI nurses who will become trainers for their colleagues.
According to him, the objective is to strengthen teamwork and increase the safety of patients, through continuous training carried out by specialists within the system.
“Patient safety is not born from papers, but from teams that know each other, support each other and work coherently, even under pressure, and this program is designed to remain in the system and strengthen teamwork in ATI, because, in health, before any procedure, it is the person”, the minister also said.
