Almost 300 nurses in Switzerland leave their jobs every month, mainly because of difficult working conditions. This phenomenon also affects young graduates, and poses a major challenge for Swiss hospitals.
High workloads, low pay, difficulty reconciling private and professional life: nurses’ working conditions are increasingly leading them to leave their jobs. According to the latest report from the Observatoire de la santé, 36% of young nurses aged between 20 and 24 leave the profession during their first few years on the job.
“We never adapt the workload, we never add someone when the service is too heavy, when someone is missing we don’t replace them,” a nurse who has been in post for less than a year in a large hospital in French-speaking Switzerland told 19h30 anonymously. …
I get that we don’t want to increase healthcare costs more, but the working conditions of our public health service are dramatic and should have been improved 20 years ago.
We need a profound reform of the system, because healthcare workers should deserve 40 hour weeks like the rest of us, and doctors should be able to get enough operating hours to get their degree without having to work 70 hour weeks for a literal decade. It’s insane.
I feel that the healthcare money is not spent well. On one hand, basic dental care is not reimbursed at all. On the other hand, we spend millions on super expensive therapies for sick old people. I know it sounds harsh, but are these always needed? Can we do with previous generation treatments? At the very least, there should be room for negotiation with the pharma companies.
Now I agree very much that the pharma companies should pay their due. But I disagree that the money would not be well spent. IMO the money got taken by people who don’t need it, and all public services are now suffering from this.