«I’m tired of attacks, mobbing, disorganization and exhausting shifts. I need rest, I’m leaving 118.” It’s the hard choice of Anna Vignolohistoric nurse from Castel San Giorgio under the Psaut in via Vernieriwho publishes the following on his Facebook profile resignation letter, with immediate effect and without notice, addressed to the top management of the ASL, with which he decides to renounce the permanent contract. An indicative gesture, which sounds like a real alarm bell for the entire category.
They are tired, dejected, but above all profoundly unhappy: the crisis, as deep as a cliff, into which our healthcare system has fallen “without a parachute” for some time now, presents us with a desolate picture of professionals who not only they do not feel valued economically and contractually, but above all they suffer from a series of inconveniences which for many of them have become truly unmanageable and which inevitably reflect on their personal lives. Everyday life, dramatic to say the least, still tells of grueling shifts, of demotions, of holidays systematically missedof men and women, rather than nurses, who take more and more time away from their loved ones, their families, and on the other hand do not feel an integral part of the “health project”, in fact, quite the opposite.
There is only one keyword: abandoned to themselves. And then when the punches arrive, the kicks even in the face, and even the death threats, when citizens exasperated by the poor services on the agenda in health facilities, even try to strangle you, as has happened several times, and on more than one hospital, nurses legitimately feel emptied and debased as people. Imagine, then, a woman, a mother, a wife, who returns home with the marks on her neck from a stranger who attacked her, with a marked face, looking at her children and her husband, who herself looks at herself mirror, and inevitably ends up wondering if the next day it’s really worth facing yet another exhausting night shift.
According to the latest data, a significant rate of healthcare workers intend to leave the profession or change structure, often due to stressful working conditions and a lack of support and resources. 16 percent of doctors and 8 percent of nurses intend to leave their jobs and these percentages are reversed if we consider the intention to leave the healthcare profession altogether (9 percent of doctors and 14 of nurses declare this. Younger healthcare workers and those who work under stress, in contexts hospitals characterized by organizational deficiencies and inadequacy of equipment and materials and by an internal climate that is not very collaborative and stimulating.
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