As a nurse, I’m curious about the nursing initiative. It sounds like different demands than in the US. Does the initiative set higher pay, safe staffing ratios, what services do they want to bill insurance for? I’d love to hear more details. Thanks!
As a nurse, I’m curious about the nursing initiative. It sounds like different demands than in the US. Does the initiative set higher pay, safe staffing ratios, what services do they want to bill insurance for? I’d love to hear more details. Thanks!
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>Background
>Nursing is an important pillar of the healthcare system. As the population continues to age, the profession is facing major challenges. In order to maintain high-quality nursing care, a greater number of professionals must train in this field in future. Conditions must also be created that allow nurses to remain in the profession longer.
>Proposal
>This popular initiative calls on the Confederation and cantons to do more in support of the nursing profession, in order to ensure universal access to appropriate, high-quality nursing. There must be a sufficient number of registered nurses, with professionals working in roles appropriate to their training and skills. The initiative also proposes that the Confederation should regulate working conditions and ensure appropriate compensation for nursing services. Nurses should also be able to bill certain services directly to health insurance companies.
https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/votes/20211128/nursing-initiative.html
official text on the site of our gov
and here from swiss info a bit more detail:
>First, the nursing initiative calls on the government and cantons to train enough registered nurses in Switzerland. Second, it says the profession needs to be properly valued, which would be achieved by the government guaranteeing certain working conditions and setting salary rates.
>According to an Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) health survey published in 2019, the pay of nurses compared to the average salary in Switzerland is one of the lowest amongst member countries.
>The initiative’s backers say the government should also reform professional development paths in the sector to facilitate new career prospects.
>Finally, the initiative wants to enable nurses to bill some services directly to insurance companies without the need for a medical prescription, as is currently required.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-voters-to-decide-how-to-solve-the-nursing-crisis/47024988
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The initiative doesn’t set any specfic numbers for pay, staff ratios and so on. For me it is very unclear what exactly will change with that initiatie.
Here is the text that will go into our constitution (translated from german to english by google):
https://www-bk-admin-ch.translate.goog/ch/d/pore/vi/vis472t.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=nui#
Nurses in Switzerland are not like north american nurses at all, we do not have the Same rights and charges profesionnaly , and the job is not the same, it was less medical-oriented and there is a will to change that, to only form university-level nurses etc.. . There is a need to make the profession more academical and less, let’s say “kind and sweet hearts looking for elderly People”
I belive in north america the studies are longer and harder, with long internships etc… We need to have high-skilled nurses
There were fears that Health Insurance costs would rise dramatically with a yes vote. Well let us see.