Before the pandemic, about a thousand patients were admitted each year and it has been closed since the beginning of covid / In its first seven days they have treated an average of seven people a day
He doesn't like to talk back to normal because "I don't dare yet". However, the reopening last Monday of the weekly hospital in the Michael Servetus de Zaragoza It is one more step, recognizes Beatriz Molinero, supervisor of Nursing from the hospital center.
Before the pandemic, in this service About a thousand patients were admitted a year, but the covid forced its closure and it was allocated to patients with coronavirus. «Hospital pressure forced this and what was needed was for internal medicine," he says, before specifying that throughout this time and depending on the pandemic waves it has "been opening or closing as a covid or internal medicine unit."
This week they attended an average of 7 patients per day, around 30 or 35 in the last seven days. Is in the 2nd floor of the Miguel Servet hospital but it is no different from any other conventional plant.
"It's true that we are still starting it and it will be next week when it really returns," he says. It has a capacity of 21 beds and they enter "depending on the pathology" that Nursing manages. The team is made up of six nurses and six Auxiliary Nursing Care (TCAE) technicians.
The week hospital opens on Monday at 8 a.m. and closes on Saturday at 15.00:XNUMX p.m. and welcomes patients "from different specialties, who require short-stay surgical procedures, two or three day treatments, people who need to undergo a specific study or a diagnostic test." All with something in common, "they are admitted for a short period of time and are discharged," says Molinero.
It has 21 beds and welcomes patients "from different specialties, who require short-stay surgical procedures, two or three day treatments, people who need to undergo a specific study or a diagnostic test."
Both the supervisor and the rest of the team "were looking forward to returning to service," she says. During this time ""We have been where we have been required." and the main thing has been the coronavirus patients who have been arriving at the hospital in the different pandemic waves; That is why there is "excitement to start again" in a service that "we have chosen and that means returning to normality in quotes," he insists. That is why he assures that If the reopening of the hospital has been given the go-ahead, it is because the hospital "is fine" and the situation is "more stable." says the Nursing supervisor of both internal medicine and the weekday hospital, who took up the position 3 years ago, although in the latter case she was in charge for "just a year."
As a nursing supervisor, she recognizes that this fact is "a breath of fresh air" for the staff, since whoever arrives at that floor comes for a "specific process or diagnostic test but does not enter with an acute pathology," which is what they have had to deal with all this time. Now “there is something more than covid,” she points out.
BALANCE
These last two years have had a "very hard learning", but "that's what it's meant to do," he points out. The staff "has not given a hundred, they have given a thousand times a thousand", he assures, because the “covid pathology” It has been a stressful job. There have been times when "seeing colleagues leaving the rooms crying was common", something that had normally "never happened before"; the same as "seeing entire families come to say goodbye to the father and three days later come to say goodbye to the mother. “It's really hard,” he remembers sadly.
Now, with this return to normality, although he does not like the word, with this return to the hospital this week he wants to leave behind this "parenthesis that has been for everyone's life," he says, before pointing out that We have to "stop looking back and start with new projects and new goals," although they have shown that a nurse is a "nurse for everything," he points out.
Hence the team, the same as before the pandemic, but with movements "from time to time" because in addition, soon "new people will come, but that is usual", it will no longer have anything to do with the coronavirus.
"The atmosphere" and the faces of the staff have also recovered a little because before "you entered the hospital and it was silent, total silence" and now it is relaxed again, it is again "the hospital it used to be." Therefore, even if you don't like the word, Miguel Servet is recovering that new normality that the pandemic cut short and that transformed the day-to-day life of the hospital center, its workers and the entire Zaragoza society.
