Dear Diary,
There are things I don't have to understand. But I would like to.
Lately, I've been thinking a lot about my care, of necessity. Am I expecting too much? Are my demands too high?
If you ask me about my opinion on the nursing crisis in Germany, I am torn.
On the one hand, I am convinced that the nursing profession deserves far too little respect and recognition. On the other hand, when I see the tax-free bonuses that are paid for working hours in which people sleep 95% of the time and I even have to justify myself as a patient if I have pain due to listless positioning and want to be positioned "again", then salaries around € 4,000 net per month are far too high. I would love to introduce a performance-based model. If you keep the patient waiting because you have to write a private email for 40 minutes, you don't get paid.
I am already clearly aware that my views are often very radically black and white. But I can also say that the majority of the nurses who have worked for me so far are radically rude. Or in what other profession can you get away with that? I'll just leave it at that. Either I'm completely wrong with my views, or maybe one or the other will think about it...
- You take the 600-euro Joop! bed linen from the customer without being asked, to make yourself comfortable.
- Before taking care of the waiting customer who has already paid for his working time, they sit on the customer's balcony for an hour with coffee and a cigarette.
- You never miss an opportunity to express your displeasure that you don't really feel like working at night.
- Being late all the time and even annoying your own colleagues is the order of the day.
- People are constantly making private phone calls during working hours.
- You use all the client's facilities, but you don't clean up their mess afterwards.
- If there are problems, the customer is blamed first, as a matter of principle.
- Working time laws are trampled underfoot.
- You talk about the customer in your own language, which the customer does not understand.
- Practically not a single shift goes by without people complaining about their employer. Or complaining about one's colleagues. Or both.
- One helps oneself to the customer's spirits in spite of an explicit prohibition that has already been pronounced.
- You drink alcohol during working hours.
- Even things belonging to the customer's friends are being misappropriated. The corresponding inscription "Hands off! Private." does not change anything.
- In preparation for a twelve-hour night shift, there is no rest or even sleep. No, the day before the shift is used for private activities. After all, they sleep at the customer's.
- The customer is regularly patronised.
