Doctors and hospital staff generally lack the time to take good care of their patients. This is what an Odoxa poll conducted for MNH, Le Figaro and France Info reveals.
The difficulties of nursing staff are once again in the news. The Odoxa polling institute carried out a survey for MNH, Le Figaro and France Info with hospital staff and doctors. They all say they don’t have enough time to take care of their patients.
49% of hospital staff and 34% of hospital physicians would like to spend more time with patients and their families@OdoxaSurveys for @MNHGroup, @LeFigaro_Sante and @franceinfo
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– Odoxa (@OdoxaSondages) June 18, 2018
Administrative tasks seen as a waste of time
176 hospital doctors and 1458 nurses and nursing aides answered the study’s questions. The first 50% say they do not have enough time to talk to patients, the second is 7 out of 10. Both spend about half of their time with patients, the rest is spent on other activities. Between 60 and 70% of them consider that administrative tasks waste too much time. More generally, all of them lack the time to do their work. They are 62% to affirm it among hospital staff and 64% among doctors.
Fear of making mistakes
On average, hospital doctors spend 47 hours per week in their department. Nurses and orderlies stay on average 39 hours per week in their department. Among the two professions, more than 90% feel that their workload is still intensifying.
These constraints related to time and workload increase the pressure felt by doctors and hospital staff. 47% of hospital staff are afraid of making mistakes for lack of time, 43% of doctors have the same fear.
Job dissatisfaction
#BalanceTonHosto
Situation: cancerology unit 12 hours of intervention with 3 teams of surgeons and the air conditioning deconne. We called because one of the operators was faint and we were sweating. Answer “when you want to be on the beach it is the same temperature and you are not uneasy”– Doc Primum (@ContactPrimum) Jan. 13, 2018
This survey also highlights a more general malaise at work. 44% of nursing staff are generally dissatisfied with their work. This rate is up 8 points compared to last April. Three quarters of caregivers and nurses believe that management is aware of the problems they are encountering but does not care about them.
Lhe data collected by Odoxa echo the recent mobilizations of health professionals to denounce the lack of resources in hospitals. Last January, healthcare professionals mobilized on Twitter with the hashtag #balancetonhosto. A thousand doctors and health executives signed an appeal in Release to denounce the lack of resources in hospitals in mid-January. Several strikes were also organized in health establishments.
This general ill-being can lead to the worst. A quarter of caregivers have had thoughts of suicide from work during their career.
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