Hundreds of exhausted nurses quit Swiss hospital jobs each month
Hundreds of exhausted nurses quit Swiss hospital jobs each month
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How many nurses does Switzerland even have? Losing 300 per month in such a small country sounds unsustainable even in the short term.
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And already 7k missing
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If it’s anything like in the US, during Covid, it was a rush to pump out new nursing students. These nursing students were paid incredibly well, they were overstaffed and underworked. Now that Covid is over and they’re actually expected to do the job for the real salary, which is still really good usually, they’re all quitting. At the hospital I know there was one particular nurse that was able to game the overtime system and she made $350,000 USD in a single year. She ended up quitting when she couldn’t game it anymore.
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Taking a job that someone is offering a market-rate salary for is not "gaming the system". Them getting a good wage shouldn't make you upset. The fact that your boss pays you peanuts should make you upset. Don't be a crab in a bucket. Fight for better wages for yourself and the people around you.
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If they quit for another job it means that people are heavily underpaid for the amount of effort, stress, knowledge and experience they have. It's not that those who quit are worth less. It's those who are left that are undervaluing their hard work, but are too used to the frankly abnormal routine of hospital work (or have circumstances that make it difficult to leave).
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It's okay guys, we voted for that toothless counter proposal to fund more nursing education in cantons that want to do it, maybe...
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Notice how nurses, EMTs, and teachers are among the professions that are both vital to society and treated like crap? Oh to be a coddled member of the ownership class!
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That should snowball quite a bit considering remaining personnel probably has to work more hours to compensate for missing personnel.
I don't know why anyone would agree to do that.
The problem was not created by the nurses, and it is not their responsibility to address it. If there is chronic underfunding and/or understaffing, the politicians and the filthy rich people in charge are the ones responsible and they are the ones who need to fix it.
Don't put the blame and responsibility on average people just trying to live their lives.
This happens a lot in nursing. Administrators guilt nursing staff into longer shifts and poor nurse to patient ratios instead of fixing the underlying problems. Then when nurses leave the job or refuse to take on extra time, management blames those who are standing up for themselves for the shortage, high ratios, and dumping on existing staff. Also, depending on your jurisdiction a nurse who leaves without a replacement can be charged with abandonment.