Nearly 1 in 2 nurses leave the hospital after ten years

This time Covid has nothing to do with it. According to the DREES study, conducted over “thirty years” of follow-up between 1989 and 2019, “nearly one in two hospital nurses” left the hospital or even changed jobs after ten years on the job.

In general, there are “less and fewer” nurses entering this position during this period to take paid jobs, hospital or not, over the years. According to the survey, after five years of a career, in this case they are 87% against 79% after ten years.

Working conditions pointed out by trade unions

Even worse, only 54% of these workers are still working in a public or private hospital ten years later, and 11% keep their activities but move to another type of employer, such as Ehpad. Dres said if motherhood causes these nurses to “cut” their paid work, it “doesn’t explain the layoffs.”

The use of liberal medicine is also being considered: 13% of professionals observed between 2006 and 2019 went into self-employment after five years, compared with 17% after ten years.

An observation that provoked a reaction from the unions: “How can we be surprised that underpaid and understaffed nurses (…) do not stay in the hospital? “, joked in a press release from the National Union of Nurses (SNPI-CFE CGC). Recalling that there are “60,000 vacant nursing positions” and asking for a “Marshall Plan” for the hospital.