“I return my uniform, disgusted, saddened”. Mathilde Basset expresses her dismay, her fatigue and her weariness in the face of working conditionsand care in accommodation establishments for dependent elderly people (EHPAD) in a message posted on Facebook. Exhausted, she returned her nurse’s gown after a year and a half of working at the hospital.‘hospitaldu Cheylard in Ardèche. It was one of her first experiences since Mathilde Basset obtained her diploma in 2016. “I have been a nurse for a year and a half. I have been working for three months at the Cheylard Hospital Center in Ardèche. Finally, I was working because my last 3 week contract ends on January 4th and it is with disgust and a lump in my stomach that I leave this raft of the jellyfish “, she writes. The cry from the heart of this nurse, shared to date more than 6,600 times on Facebook, gives the measure of the state of mind which touches more and more health professionals in hospitals and emergencies in particular.
“I botch and act like a robot”
In her post addressed to the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn, Mathilde Basset describes the exhaustion in the face of overwork, the lack of staff and the inability to be able to carry out her mission. She says: “This morning, I broke down. Like the previous 20 days. I’m tearing my hair, literally and figuratively. I urge the residents to painfully finish my distribution of drugs at 10:15 am (started at 7.15 am), I am stressed, therefore stressful and in my opinion, mistreating. I do not wish anyone to be abrupt as we abrupt residents.Available to anyone, unable to create any relationship with families and users, which, you will agree, is quite paradoxical for a so-called place of life. I botch. I botch and act like a robot by deliberately omitting the transmissions of my colleagues whom I consider to be the lowest priority in order to get to the point with the 99 lives for which I am responsible “. A critical situation and deemed untenable for the nurse who decided to leave her post not without alerting Agnès Buzyn via social networks: “I am afraid Mrs. Minister. Your managerial policy does not suit the healthcare logic. This gap that you have created , which you keep digging promises dark hours for the “health system.” Come and see, just once. ”
As part of the reform of public retirement homes, a cut of 200 million euros in the budget of accommodation establishments for dependent elderly people (Ehpad) public has been recorded.
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