With Covid-19, 40% of nurses "want to change jobs"

According to a consultation conducted by the Order of Nurses, four out of ten nurses assure that the Covid-19 crisis "made them want to change jobs".

And 90% believe that their profession is "not recognized for its true value within the health system". 

Four in ten nurses say that the health crisis due to Covid-19 "made them want to change jobs", according to a wide consultation conducted by the Order of Nurses, which wishes to give the profession "prospects for the future ".

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The fear of a wave of departures among these caregivers is not unfounded.

Polled online between April 30 and May 5, more than 30,000 nurses - or 4% of working professionals - confirmed the weariness of "heroes in white coats".

A profession "not recognized at its fair value"

Not only 40% say that "the crisis made them want to change jobs", but 51% consider that their job "does not allow them to experience real development and career prospects".

Above all, almost all - 90% - consider that their profession is "not recognized at its true value within the health system" and 64% consider that it "is" ungrateful ".

The nurses also think almost unanimously (92%) that "the health crisis has shown that (their) role and (their) attributions must be reviewed". 

Likewise, for 90% of them, this means in the short term a review of their competence decree - unchanged since 2004 - with, for example, more prerogatives in terms of prevention and therapeutic education.

In the longer term, they are also 92% to wish "to become actors of the coordination, the management of the patient journey and his orientation".

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The insufficient health Ségur?

For the president of the Order of Nurses, Patrick Chamboredon, these results are a sign that the "Ségur de la santé", in spite of its salary increases, "has so far not made it possible to draw the contours of the profession. nurse of tomorrow, giving her prospects for the future ".

The Order therefore announces in a press release "the launch of a process of collective reflection and foresight on the future of the profession at 10 years", without further details at this stage.