The district nurse: "More worried about going to the store than to work"

Åsa Nyberg works as a district nurse in Växjö municipality's resource pool. This means that she moves into places where staff is needed, for example in special housing.

More work than usual

The public health authority recommends that anyone with the smallest symptoms stay at home to avoid the spread of infection - this applies to both caregivers and everyone else. This has meant that significantly more of Åsa Nyberg's colleagues have taken sick leave than usual. And for Åsa Nyberg, this has meant some more work than otherwise.

- I have had to do more wound reshaping, drug handling and injections as the nurses out on the units usually do. But now that several of them are gone, we who work in the resource pool have done it instead, ”she says.

The protective equipment has not run out

In recent weeks, an intense debate has taken place as to whether the protective equipment is running out. However, Åsa Nyberg has not seen any signs that the protective equipment is running out in the municipality of Växjö and says that new deliveries are constantly coming.

But if, for example, the mouthguard would end, what happens then?

- We will solve that, says Åsa Nyberg.

In the player above, Åsa Nyberg tells more about his changed work situation.