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What do you think is the most important reason why nurses quit their jobs?

What do you think is the most important reason why nurses quit their jobs?

Nowadays, the resignation of nurses is a very common phenomenon. Whether it is a tertiary hospital, a specialized hospital, a secondary hospital or a grass-roots hospital, every hospital has a large number of nurses resigning every year. Like our hospital, dozens of new nurses are recruited every year, but the number of nurses who resign every year is as few as seven or eight, or as many as a dozen. Therefore, no matter how often there are new-faced nurses in the medical and surgical departments, many of them we do not recognize.

One time, I took off my work clothes after work, changed into my own, and went to the surgical nurses' station to check the charts of the next day's surgical patients, and one of the newer nurses wouldn't let me look at them, just because she didn't recognize them.

Why do so many nurses quit these days?

Low pay and hard work are the main reasons.

Nurses work really, really hard.

Some people say that nurses just give injections and medicines, what's so hard about it? What's so hard about it?

Have you heard of the saying "three parts treatment, seven parts nursing"? This sentence shows how important nursing is, just injecting the seemingly simple work of issuing medication, which contains a very rich content, nursing is an important part of the medical work, the quality of nursing is directly related to the response to the high and low level of medical care.

Nursing work is very important, nurses not only give patients injections and medicines, including the reception of newly admitted patients, arrange beds, check and execute all the doctor's prescriptions, assist the doctor to carry out various treatments and treatments for the patient, observe the patient's condition, observe the patient's reaction to the medication, monitor the patient's vital signs, prepare the patient's specimens for examination, such as blood, urine and feces, and do hygiene promotion for the patient, understand the patient's diet, hygiene and psychological state, maintain ward cleanliness, sort and dispose of medical wastes... To educate patients on hygiene, to understand patients' diet, hygiene and psychological status, to maintain ward cleanliness, to categorize and dispose of medical waste...

And, basically, there is a shortage of nurses in every hospital. For example, in a department with 50 beds, there are generally only about 20 nurses, and these nurses are also divided into office nurses, charge nurses, treatment nurses, morning nurses, mid-shift nurses, night nurses, and so on, who are responsible for different tasks. The nurses in every big hospital start working at the rhythm of going to the battlefield, and basically, they can't stop from the start of their work to the end of their work shift. From the beginning to the end of the shift, they basically cannot stop working, and they basically cannot get off work normally. I don't know if you have seen a video, a while ago there is a very hot video, said a guy in Chengdu to a nurse girl's proposal of things, this 10-second video is known as the history of the shortest marriage proposal video, the nurses of the marriage proposal ceremony are so fast-paced, can see, usually nurses will be busy with their work to what extent.

And nurses in the night shift nurse is the most hard, twenty-something years old girl, to face 5, 60 patients alone, night shift is not sleep, a night nurse to keep touring, observe the patient's condition, to the patient in need of help, we do not often say, "stay up late = overdraft life", but our nurses girls, every month to value more than ten or eight night shift, they are really in their youth and even life to maintain the professional duties, honor and dignity of the nurses. We often say, "staying up all night = overdraft life", but our nurse girls, every month to value more than ten eight night shifts, they are really overdrafting their own youth and even life, to maintain the duties of the profession of nurses, honor and dignity.

Therefore, most of the nurses in the clinical front line are very young, and those who are older have retreated to the second-line departments and auxiliary departments, because the clinical front line is too hard and strenuous, and without the capital of youth, you are unable to cope with the heavy medical and nursing work in the clinical front line.

Nurses work very hard, so the pay should be good.

You're wrong!

In fact, in all hospitals, the treatment of nurses is one of the lowest groups, and in some hospitals, the treatment of nurses is not as good as that of ordinary staff in the logistics department and auxiliary departments. I will not analyze the reasons for this, but I will only talk about the facts. Last year, there was a piece of news that nurses in a tertiary hospital in Beijing had to use their spare time to go to McDonald's to work to subsidize their families, so this shows how high the treatment of nurses is!

Coupled with the fact that nurses have a low social status and high occupational risks, they are directly facing patients and are at the forefront of medical disputes and doctor-patient conflicts, it is very common for nurses to be scolded by patients.

I think these are the reasons that have led to many of the currentMain reasons for nurses' resignation.

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Nurse turnover is very common in hospitals, and many hospital units are likely to have a large change of nurse faces after a few years. So what are the main reasons for nurses to resign? I have also contacted some nurses who have resigned or intend to resign, generally speaking, there are mainly the following reasons:

1. Too busy to take care of their children. In addition to the nurse in charge and the head nurse, most of the nurses are required to participate in the three shifts of the department (morning shift, mid-shift and evening shift), the mid-shift is usually until about 11:00 p.m., and the evening shift is from the evening until the next morning. This three-shift routine makes it difficult for nurses to take care of their children at home, especially the young ones. A nurse who had just given birth to her second child more than a year ago wanted to quit her job and asked me if there were any nursing jobs that did not involve night shifts, saying that she could not work at night anymore.


2. Poor economic performance. Although they work very hard, nurses in most hospitals are treated very poorly, especially those in second-class hospitals, where the bonus distribution factor is much worse than that of doctors. In fact, quite a number of nurses in the second-class hospitals quit their jobs not all because they do not work as nurses any more, some of them just jumped ship to hospitals with better wages and bonuses, such as the third-class hospitals. Or they jump to work in hospitals where the work is relatively easier.


3, busy work, the body can not top. I have a very beautiful original section of the nurse, but because the work is too busy and too tired, coupled with her body is not too good (asthma), really can not afford to be forced to resign.


4. High work intensity and high medical risk. Nurses work intensity is indeed very large, in addition to the three shifts, daily work, including injections, medication, checking the medical prescription, only to add a variety of skills training, the three basic exams, title exams, etc. Coupled with the current health care environment is not too good, there are often a small number of family members to beat, scolding, some physical and mental can not afford it also had to resign.

In fact, most of the nurses are young girls in their twenties, they are not much different from other beautiful girls, but the nature of the work is a lot of ordinary people may not be able to top, we should give them a more care and love.

Thanks for the invite.

A relative's daughter works as a nurse in a hospital, and she has said several times that she wants to quit her job because it's very hard, for the following reasons:

First, the human body's biological clock disorders, they are not like we work during the day and rest at night, there are fixed weekly holidays, but shift work, regardless of day and night, on the twelve hours rest twenty-four hours, black and white, this violation of the human body's law of life at sunrise and sunset, the body's ability to withstand a great test, and the more the more the holidays are busy.

Being young and unmarried is fine, but once you get married and have kids, family life is hectic.

Second, the work content of tension, contact with things that people can not stand. Nurses have to inject, change drugs, infusion and so on, this work can not appear a little error, or really will be killed, the spirit of the work period is always in a high state of tension, not to mention that some departments have to deal with the patient's urine and feces, vomit and so on, this kind of thing, is not ordinary people can accept.

And some nurses in infectious wards are even more at risk of being infected, so it's kind of a high-risk profession.

(c) Misunderstandings and grievances of patients and their families. People who are sick itself is very anxious, family members are also very anxious, we can often see people in the hospital assaulted doctors, assaulted nurses in the news. The work itself is very hard, but also time-consuming and laborious to explain to the patient and his family, persuade.

We are all human beings, we all have feelings, emotions and sorrows, why should I be subjected to your anger, insults and even beatings? Lunjia at home is also Mom and Dad's favorite little princess, okay!

Fourth, economic reasons. Relatives of nurses because of the hospital is a provincial hospital, income is not bad, seven or eight thousand per month. If in some small hospitals in three or four tier cities, the money earned is really not much, especially for many young nurses who have just graduated, only two or three thousand dollars a month, income and pay a serious disproportion.

Fifth, career development bottleneck. Nurses do not have titles, positions, stay up for many years the best is a nurse manager position, that is also a very few people can do, the majority of the entire career can only be an ordinary nurse.The profession itself has no prospects or hope for development.

I think the above is why nurses quit their jobs!

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I've been around nurses who quit, and the most common and main reason is that it's too tiring and too much work.

There are a lot of fresh graduates of the young sister really on the job, found that the work of the nurse is not as easy as in the TV so beautiful, all-night busy and stay up late is a common occurrence, coupled with the work of the nurses itself with the content of the complexity and exhaustion, there are a lot of people can not withstand and resignation.

There are also some reasons for the work environment, nurses need to do the most may be the needle injection, if encountered in a difficult situation, the patient's lack of understanding and bad attitude is commonplace, especially for pediatric nurses, to the little emperor and princesses of the injection, in case of failure, some parents will not be too happy to meet the unreasonable, speak harshly or even scolding, such a poor working environment has also made many nurses decided to change careers. This poor working environment has made many nurses decide to change their profession.

In addition, there is also a lack of understanding from families, who think that nurses are hardworking and tired, that they do not get much pay, and that they cannot adequately take care of their families and children because of their busy schedules. I have a friend who works as a nurse in a paediatric department. She once said, "I take care of other people's children, but I do not have time to take good care of my own sick child. It really sounds a bit heartbreaking.

First of all, thank you for the invitation!

In my humble opinion, the most important reasons for nurses to quit their jobs are as follows.

A: Nurses, is a very special profession, in front of patients, she or (he) they have no gender, only work and responsibility. It is necessary to overcome the psychological barriers at the same time to have tenacious spiritual support to complete the heavy duty task.

Second: the doctor-patient relationship problem, nurses in overloaded work, exhausted, such as patients and patients' families do not understand the misunderstanding of the complaint, their work pressure and grievances are difficult to bear.

Third: treatment issues, but also a very sensitive topic, the intensity of the work, the unit assessment efforts coupled with the risk of doctor-patient complaints, deductions are common.

To summarize the above views, just a hole in the personal opinion, if there are inadequacies, I hope to apologize!

Thank you for the invitation.

Over the years, several nurse friends beside me have resigned one after another, and through exchanges with them, their reasons are summarized in the following points:

O1 Working environment in hospitals

Nurses in hospitals undertake patient care work, the direct work object is the patient, in practice, the work responsible for people is more responsible than the work responsible for things, the degree of stress is higher;

The state of the nurses' working environment often makes nurses feel pressure. Every day at work, we have to face the patient's sick face, moaning, complaining, and even because the patient is suffering from illness, the patient will unknowingly involve the nurse, the patient's anger in the nurses from time to time, as a nurse, can only be helpless to bear with the explanations; the hospital's tense working atmosphere, the patients who are shuttled everywhere to check the patients in a hurry, and the family members who are in a hurry to visit patients with anxious faces; in particular, the ICU room nurses, facing the imminent death or external injuries (such as car accident, fall) patients with various tragic conditions and smell, etc. In general, the doctors and nurses have to bear the stress of the work environment. Nurses in the ICU ward, faced with the impending death or external injuries (such as car accidents, falls) patients with a variety of tragic conditions and unpleasant odors, etc., in general, doctors and nurses bear a negative sensory stimulation and unpleasant feelings.

In addition nurses work three shifts during working hours and suffer the adverse psychological reactions of night, day, contrasting work and the changing system of rotating regularity.

There is also, from time to time, contact with the usual dead patients, doctors, nurses and staff in the process of dealing with dying and dead patients, there will be a variety of complex psychological reactions, including common reactions for loss and sadness. In the face of countless patients by the disease to take life, doctors, nurses will inevitably have a kind of denial of their own value of the inexorable, if the sense of loss, that is, this loss comes to a painful state of mind of sadness.

O2 Pressure on the way hospitals are managed

Most hospitals, in order to win the patients' high quality evaluation of the hospital, can only improve the quality of service, patient-centered and humanized management.

Patients and their families are anxious, fearful and eager to seek treatment. Although medical personnel do their best, due to changes in the condition and the limitations of medical conditions and technology, the treatment cannot achieve the desired purpose, and the condition deteriorates and worsens slightly, even to the point of death. Patients and their families will be dissatisfied with the medical staff threatening, intimidating, scolding, insulting, and even killing doctors and nurses.

And humanistic management requires that health care workers can only endure the aggravation in their hearts to serve patients, thus leading to psychological imbalance and increased work pressure.

O3. family pressure on nurses

Nurses are human beings, and when faced with family responsibilities and domestic chores, it is inevitable that they do not consume energy and increase work pressure. If the two cannot maintain a good balance, conflicts will arise and become a stressor for mental and physical health problems. Especially female nurses, (most nurses are female) at home as wives and mothers, have unshirkable responsibilities and family burdens; in the workplace, faced with heavy responsibilities, intense and heavy medical work and the challenge of updating their knowledge, they also suffer from psychophysiological problems due to pregnancy, childbirth, menstruation, menopause and other physiological changes. These own problems are also factors of apparent or potential resignation.

The stressful and intense nature of the job, mentioned in many answers, is not the main problem.

The bottom line is that there isn't a lot of room for advancement in this profession, and there is a huge lack of respect for nurses from the patient community.

Nurses are also professional technicians, but in the eyes of some unqualified patients, they are just babysitters who make beds and sweep floors.

The same words, the nurse said three times, the patient does not believe, the doctor said once, the patient listened to obey ......

Not to mention unqualified patients, there are also unqualified doctors who say, "Are you a doctor or am I a doctor?" and "What do you know as a little nurse?"

Thank you for your question.

(1) Nurses, our white-clothed angels, which is the largest category of occupational groups in the health care system, have made great contributions to the cause of medicine and should be given due respect by the whole society.

(2) The most important reasons for nurses to quit their jobs: high work pressure, low pay, lack of time and energy to take care of their families, and lack of due social respect; (nurses' work is very busy every day, from the start to the end of the workday, and their daily tasks are more numerous and miscellaneous, such as dispensing medicines, giving fluids, changing medicines, giving medicines to the patients, and taking temperature, etc.; they may have to negotiate and communicate with the doctors, patients and their families, and the inpatient pharmacy staff, etc.; and to work night shifts, etc.) (e.g., consulting and communicating with doctors, patients and their families, inpatient pharmacy staff, etc.; working the night shift, etc.)

Other reasons for resignation:

1) Find a better job position or change your career to a related industry;

2) The industry environment is not good, there are many medical disputes, and the risk of the industry is relatively high;

3) Poor interpersonal relations within the department, often scolded by the head nurse and leadership;

(4) Frequent late nights, high work pressure and mental stress lead to physical and mental problems for nurses;

5) Find someone to marry and live in their city;

6) Other reasons such as online sunshine: there is no time to find a date! My cat is about to give birth! and other more bizarre reasons.

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The main reason why nurses quit their jobs is that they give much more than they earn. Although having a nurse at home is helpful for the health of the whole family, the work of the nurses themselves is just too hard.


Originally, the education of nurses was mainly based on junior colleges, but now many tertiary hospitals have raised the entry threshold of nurses to bachelor's degree, and are gradually increasing the proportion of male nurses. The advantages of the nursing profession are that the work is stable and the income is not low; it belongs to the establishment of public institutions, and after retirement, it can enjoy the retirement salary of public institutions.

Nurses were mostly married to doctors, and a pair of medical professionals was a valuable asset to both families. Whether it's hospitalization visits, minor ailments at home and patient care, there are many benefits to having a nurse in the family.


However, nurses are required to work three shifts, sometimes mid-shift in conjunction with the night shift. Nowadays, the night shift nurses in inpatient units have a more demanding job that requires them to be on the rounds all the time to check on beds and so on. Nowadays, girls are pampered and spoiled because of their better living conditions, and it is a great contrast to put them to hard work after work. There are also some patients as well as doctors who are unreasonable, making the nurses become the direct face of their "undeserving target of sb's wrath".


Nurses have less room to move up, and it takes years of simmering to go from nurse to head nurse and then to head nurse of a unit. It is even more difficult to be promoted to Director of Nursing. Against this background, it is not difficult to understand why nurses resign.


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Nurse resignations are becoming very frequent and common in hospitals of all sizes.

If nursing after graduation into the comprehensive provincial level above the big hospitals, the early departure is often the first entry into the job market is tired of nursing this career, if the work of more than five years and then resigned, it is likely that the upward channel is narrower, after leaving the hospital will go to the regional level, the treatment and the position is better, but also to avoid the exploitation of the price of housing is a lot of nurses' choice.

If really small and medium-sized hospitals, once the departure is often a change of profession, after all, the social services industry is now very developed, girls to find a job is not very difficult, the money does not necessarily have to be more, but should not be as tired as nurses that.

After all, as a nurse, is the hospital more hard work, we often say that doctors work hard, in fact, nurses are even harder, there is a saying, "doctors move their mouths, nurses run through the legs," is the nursing work is nothing, complicated portrayal.

Currently engaged in the nursing industry is still mainly girls, you think as a single child, who would like to let their own girls tired with a donkey to serve those hospitals that pop up from time to time, "the masters", health care work is not pleasing to the eye, is China's 20 years of the strange phenomenon of doing a life-saving work, is not being respected.

Overall, tired work, low pay, late nights and lack of respect are the four main reasons why nurses leave their jobs.


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