The FOA public services union has expressed concern about a survey showing that one in four nurses are spending time cleaning beds. The union believes that hospitals are trying to reduce costs by cutting jobs and they believe that service assistants are more dispensable than nurses. However, the union points out that service assistants are specifically trained for cleaning tasks and nurses are not. FOA argues that hospital cleaning is a vital job that requires proper training in order to ensure effective infection control and patient safety.
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