A significant number of EU nurses are approaching pension age, and some young people enter the industry. Nurses usually face difficult working conditions, such as long -lasting, employees, high rate of patients, low salary and emotional stress. Many nurses claim to be exhausted, which affects retention rates and encourages young people to choose this profession.
It also worsens the competition between EU countries to attract and retain health professionals. Knowing the problem, the European Union is creating a three -year effort to launch new and better training programs that attract young students in the field of nursing.
Bulgaria is a clear example of current difficulties. In a decade, the country has lost more than 10% of its nurse, many of which have left other EU member states in search of the best salary and working conditions. For example, Elsa. It is one of the 144 nurses of the Blago IVCra State Hospital in Southwest Bulgaria. Elsa works at the orthopedic plant.
Despite the improvements of last year, the hospital operates below the quality of at least two nurses for each doctor, who considers the minimum required for good medical practice.
“My dream was always working as a nurse. Although there were many other ways to my studies. But I wanted to be a nurse. My mother and a nurse, even my children. I consider it a good job.” “However, we get very little money. That is why they force us to work in two places. They give me free days, in which I can see my family. We don’t have to be 24 hours in the plant, but we spend several hours at work. I am tired and I am very tired. I am very tired. So they scare young nurses.”
Like many EU nurses, Elsa is difficult to talk about this. They fear their jobs. But he cannot hide the high personal price that is often referring to his loving profession.
“Maybe our work is not rated in Bulgaria,” he says. “I can give many examples and reasonable circumstances. But in fact, in some way, we lose ourselves on holidays because we work for 12 hours.
It is estimated that there are no 17,000 nurses in Bulgaria to operate effectively. So how to judge or at least improve the situation?
Milkha Vasileva is the president of the 32,000 -member Bulgarian Health Professional Association. He has been working as a medical nurse for 43 years.
The work of the nurses is important, he says and confirms that he must recognize himself.
“According to our calculations, the nurses must triple the country’s minimum wage in Bulgaria,” says Milka Vasilewa. “What can the European Commission can do? We have already seen all kinds of announcements sent to member states, different financial documents and all kinds of all types.
In addition to financial assistance, experts agree that any EU level strategic strategy should think of the development of features such as planning, hiring, training, work conditions and professional development.
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