Just how bad is the nursing man-power problem in Germany?
N-TV had a piece this morning and briefly talked over the growing issue.
Based on polling, the suggestion is that one out of every three German nurses....has contemplated leaving their current job.
A lot of this is simply job-stress with Covid-19 issues pushing this profession to the breaking point.
The nurse's union? They are actually suggesting that starting-pay for nurses be a minimum of 4,000 Euro (roughly 5,000 US dollars). Odds of this happening? Zero. The average nurse in Germany....for a pay-scale....is making around 2,900 Euro a month (that's not rookie pay, but established nurse pay).
The general problem....it's not a profession that people really want to go and spend four decades. Even before Covid-19 came along, there were manpower problems noted in the German healthcare industry over nurses. All Covid has done is double up the stress, and open up recruitment in places like Mexico or the Philippines....to bring non-German nurses into the country.
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