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. …
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.