I believe a good nurse can make or break your recovery.
It’s sad they don’t find enough of them.
Oh no, the applause on the balconies during COVID did not encourage more people to do this exhausting job? Who would have thought?
They’ve tried anything but paying them more to attract more nurses.
They work a job that’s literally life and death for many people for long hours and low pay. Horrible working conditions. Not a secret why there’s a shortage of 15,000 nurses in Switzerland.
Not only are there not enough but they’re leaving in droves too. Of course, the Federal Council could go about actually implementing the Pflegeinitiative, but they literally don’t give a shit.
My aunt and a friend I know work as FaGe/Nurse, and they both are close to quitting cause the pay is shit considering what you do and what hours you work.
No wonder. Every nurse I know complains about shitty working times and poor wages. This causes nurses to leave their job, which means that the remaining staff has to do even more. Apparently, tax cuts for rich assholes (aka “high value providers”) are more important than the health of nurses and patients (aka “people with little value”). It’s euphemistically called “efficiency”.
My wife is making 5100.- at 100% after 20 years and one CAS in palliatif care…. What a surprise!
I know of two nurses here that got sever burn out, left, came back, got burnt again, then left permanently for other jobs. Eventually they have to go back to school entirely to train for another career, this is the worst part in my opinion. Switzerland will have a massive crisis of skilled workers across the board over the next five to ten years, but where doctors and nurses are concerned they should really be taking this more seriously. In my opinion the house doctor thing here is a big part of the problem, as they are basically just secretaries for the larger practices, directing traffic to all these other places when they could be doing so so much more.
Not even gonna mention MLS MLT.
Wifey has been a nurse for the past 12 years, got burned out because of the short staff (not a single day or night with a full team for the past 3 years). Mixing 12 hours day-night-day-night schedule fucked up her hormones so bad she had pretty bad mood swings as well as trouble concentrating and sleeping.
Basically you work your ass off to keep you patient alive as the cost of your own health for the price of a freshly graduated electrician or carpenter.
She is now heavily considering moving forward and start a new career.
Whats the average nursing pay there?
The beatings will continue until nurse morale improves.
I am a nurse – quit the job after one year in a university hospital and moved into the private sector. Salary more than tripled within 12 years. But I still miss the job, and most of my former colleagues who are not working in that line anymore do so as well.
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I believe a good nurse can make or break your recovery.
It’s sad they don’t find enough of them.
Oh no, the applause on the balconies during COVID did not encourage more people to do this exhausting job? Who would have thought?
They’ve tried anything but paying them more to attract more nurses.
They work a job that’s literally life and death for many people for long hours and low pay. Horrible working conditions. Not a secret why there’s a shortage of 15,000 nurses in Switzerland.
Not only are there not enough but they’re leaving in droves too. Of course, the Federal Council could go about actually implementing the Pflegeinitiative, but they literally don’t give a shit.
My aunt and a friend I know work as FaGe/Nurse, and they both are close to quitting cause the pay is shit considering what you do and what hours you work.
No wonder. Every nurse I know complains about shitty working times and poor wages. This causes nurses to leave their job, which means that the remaining staff has to do even more. Apparently, tax cuts for rich assholes (aka “high value providers”) are more important than the health of nurses and patients (aka “people with little value”). It’s euphemistically called “efficiency”.
My wife is making 5100.- at 100% after 20 years and one CAS in palliatif care…. What a surprise!
I know of two nurses here that got sever burn out, left, came back, got burnt again, then left permanently for other jobs. Eventually they have to go back to school entirely to train for another career, this is the worst part in my opinion. Switzerland will have a massive crisis of skilled workers across the board over the next five to ten years, but where doctors and nurses are concerned they should really be taking this more seriously. In my opinion the house doctor thing here is a big part of the problem, as they are basically just secretaries for the larger practices, directing traffic to all these other places when they could be doing so so much more.
Not even gonna mention MLS MLT.
Wifey has been a nurse for the past 12 years, got burned out because of the short staff (not a single day or night with a full team for the past 3 years). Mixing 12 hours day-night-day-night schedule fucked up her hormones so bad she had pretty bad mood swings as well as trouble concentrating and sleeping.
Basically you work your ass off to keep you patient alive as the cost of your own health for the price of a freshly graduated electrician or carpenter.
She is now heavily considering moving forward and start a new career.
Whats the average nursing pay there?
The beatings will continue until nurse morale improves.
I am a nurse – quit the job after one year in a university hospital and moved into the private sector. Salary more than tripled within 12 years. But I still miss the job, and most of my former colleagues who are not working in that line anymore do so as well.
It really is all about the conditions.