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The Home will make an analysis of the staffing requirement and the structure of the necessary
staff and submit it to the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs and the
Provincial Secretariat for Social Policy, Demography, Gender Equality.
The Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs and the Provincial Secretariat for Social Policy, Demography and Gender Equality will assess the justification of
expressed staffing requirements and take measures to ensure sufficient staff for the performance of activities in the Home, in accordance with its capacities and the applicable standards
and legislation.
Semi-mobile and immobile beneficiaries will be able to take bath several times a week.
The Home will use folding screens when changing diapers, changing and cleaning rooms of
beneficiaries, in order to protect their privacy.
Any beneficiary whose medical condition allows it, will be allowed to regularly spend time out
on the fresh air and outdoors, with the assistance of the Home staff.
The Home will make a staffing and technical needs’ analysis to ensure that all beneficiaries
spend two hours a day on fresh air.
The Home will conduct the mechanical restraint measure, or the so-called fixation, only
exceptionally, when this is the only means to prevent the beneficiary to seriously harm his/her
own life and safety and lives of other persons and fully in compliance with the regulations and
established standards of treatment of persons with mental disorders, and in particular:
· measure of mechanical restraint against the beneficiary will be used exceptionally, when
this is the only means to prevent the beneficiary to seriously harm his/her own life and
safety and lives of other persons;
· before applying a measure of mechanical restraint, it is necessary to consider and try to
use a less restrictive measure;
· ensure of mechanical restraint of a beneficiary will be applied using medical interventions that will allow the period of application of measures to be as short as possible;
· measure of mechanical restraint of the patient will be conducted in a safe place and in a
way that that is least threatening for the life and health of the patient;
· measure of mechanical restraint of the beneficiary will be carried out with designated
means (straps, etc.) to ensure that the intervention is administered in a way that is least
threatening for the life and health of the patient;
· the psychiatrist will decide about the application of the mechanical restraint measure and duration of such restraint, taking care that the period of application is as
short as possible, in accordance with the applicable standards and rules of the medical profession;
126 Report on the visit to Gerontology Center Novi Sad – Working Unit of the Home for Pensioners and the Elderly in
Novo Naselje, no. 281-58/16, Ref. no. 31070 of August 12, 2016.
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