While the second wave of coronavirus hits France, many nursing homes are struggling to recruit staff.
In Toulouse, a rapid training system is being tested so that, in three months, a diploma is issued in order to respond to this labor shortage in establishments welcoming the elderly.
Faced with the second wave of coronavirus that is currently hitting the country, French hospitals are on the verge of saturation.
The situation is also complicated in nursing homes, where we follow the progression of the disease - still nearly 30,000 positive cases detected in the last 24 hours -, with concern.
Because these establishments welcoming the elderly suffer from a lack of personnel.
It is the Synerpa, the main union of private establishments, which warns of the difficulty in recruiting, in particular nursing assistants.
This is particularly the case in Occitania, where a device has been tested to try to respond to this lack of personnel.
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"We need replacements. And that's often where things get stuck"
"We feel the teams are tired, so they may be on sick leave more often," Martines Danes, regional representative of Synerpa, who heads several structures, explains to Europe 1.
"On the other hand, as soon as there are positives, or as soon as there are contact cases, we isolate them to make our structures as secure as possible, and therefore we need replacements. And it is often there. that it gets stuck. "
Because the candidates are rare.
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Martine Danes observed it: the training courses are too general, since the nursing assistants can work as well in the hospital as in nursing homes.
So to find better trained people more quickly, she set up new training with Pôle Emploi and the Red Cross.
"We may have to take people who have not graduated to take care of the elderly. And us, that's not what we want," she says to explain her approach.
"Very quickly, we can train a person and give him a baggage"
Hence the creation of this diploma.
"We have set up a course called 'accompanying him in gerontology'. In three months, it allows a person, with internship time and course time, to acquire the necessary knowledge to practice in Ehpad in complete safety ", specifies Martine Danes.
"Maybe afterwards, this person will evolve into a nursing assistant or another care profession, but in any case, very quickly, we can train them and give them a background."
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A first promotion was released last year, 90% of which is now active.
Another is currently in training, and it is at the end of the year that the experimentation should lead to the certification of this diploma.