In just over a month, 30 nurses have resigned in the region.
To compare with 46 during the whole of 2020. Some have retired, others have gone to municipal activities, another region or left for some other reason.
- It's extreme.
Colleagues are not allowed to go home after the end of the work shift because there is no one to solve them.
This is unsustainable, says Susanne Söder.
Dissatisfaction is fermenting
We meet in a chat room at Sundsvall Hospital.
Susanne Söder works as a contact nurse at the oncologist and colleague Christine Näslund is a research nurse in the same department.
She has also worked for more than 30 years.
Here they have enjoyed themselves.
With tasks, patients, colleagues and immediate managers.
But what is happening now in healthcare is turning everything around.
- I have always thought that I will work longer than to 65 years, but now I go home when I turn, says Susanne Söder.
Major staffing problems
Staff at Sundsvall Hospital are "moved around" to solve the most urgent need where it is needed for the day, she says.
Staff shortages and overcrowding are commonplace.
But not sustainable, says colleague Christine Näslund:
- It is the latest strategy that continues by leaps and bounds, to relocate staff to solve the nursing shortage and save a chaotic situation.
A lot of experience disappears
In the autumn, we reported that more nurses than before are leaving the Västernorrland region.
When the year is now summed up, it is clear that twice as many, 96 nurses, resigned last year compared with the year before.
But there are more professions that leave (see fact box)
In the afternoon, Kurt Pettersson, director of health and medical care, will comment on the situation.