“I return my uniform, disgusted, saddened”. Mathilde Basset expresses her distress, her fatigue and her fatigue with working conditionsand care in accommodation establishments for dependent elderly people (EHPAD) in a message posted on Facebook. Exhausted, she returned her nurse’s blouse, after a year and a half of work at the‘hospitalof Cheylard in Ardèche. It was one of her first experiences since Mathilde Basset graduated 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. my last 3-week contract ends on January 4th and it is with disgust and a lump in my stomach that I leave this jellyfish raft”, she writes. This nurse’s cry from the heart, shared to date more than 6,600 times on Facebook, gives the measure of the state of mind that affects more and more health professionals in hospitals and emergencies in particular.
“I sloppy and act like a robot”
In her post addressed to the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn, Mathilde Basset describes the exhaustion faced with the work overload, 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 am tearing my hair out, literally and figuratively. I am stressed, therefore stressful and, in my opinion, mistreating. I do not want anyone to be rushed as residents are rushed. Available to no one, unable to create the slightest relationship with families and users, which, you will agree, is quite paradoxical for a so-called place to live. lives for which I am responsible”. A critical situation and deemed untenable for the nurse who decided to leave her post not without alerting via social networks Agnès Buzyn: “I am afraid Madam Minister. Your managerial policy does not suit the logic of care. This gap that you have created , which you continue to dig promises very dark hours for the “Health system. Come and see, just once”.
As part of the reform of public retirement homesa cut of 200 million euros in the budget of public accommodation establishments for dependent elderly people (Ehpad) has been recorded.
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