![]() ![]() ![]() The Catholic Institute for Nursing, Marienhospital, Osnabrück provides conventional nursing training and, since 1999, has offered a course to train as operating theatre assistants (OTA). Although the nurse-surgeon training aims to improve and continuously ensure the quality of surgical assistance - and provide surgery at a lower cost - young doctors could miss chances to pass their medical qualification in surgery: ‘No cardiac surgeon commenced his/her career with an organ transplant.’ ‘Assistance through qualified doctors is the most important form of further training,’ he said, adding that this must be ensured for future needs in general and specialist surgery. nurses, could carry out, for example, infusion therapy, which they used to do.ĭr Udo Wolter, a member of the Marburger Bund and President of the Brandenburg Medical Council, who specialises in hand and emergency surgery, is against nurse-surgeon training, arguing that, due to the ruling by the European Court of Justice on hospital working hours (being on-call is considered time worked), assistants are left with less time to assist and learn to operate. But surely, the solution cannot be to remove their real medical work - particularly since it is difficult to recruit sufficient numbers of medical and nursing staff to begin with! It would make far more sense to relieve doctors of many documentation-related administrative tasks - about a third of their workload. ![]() However, the Marburger Bund (Marburg Association) - with 80,000+ members the largest organisation in Europe representing salaried doctors - was more forthcoming: Unfortunately, doctors (particularly hospital doctors) must carry out an increasing volume of non-medical work. ‘The General German Medical Council, the umbrella organisation that represents German doctors, was not prepared to make a statement on this subject. A ‘surgical assistant’ course began in Germany in 1999, and the first course for surgical assistants in cardiology was introduced this March. In the 1970s the Netherlands introduced training for ‘operation assistants’, and the USA has had ‘registered nurse first assistants’ for 15 years. ![]()
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