Wert(er)schöpfung: Die Krise des Pflegeberufs

Nurses choose their profession because they want to help people. However, economic pressure prevents them from giving care according to their professional ethos. Consequently, this has led to a high staff turnover, which has aggravated the crisis in the nursing profession. This was shown by a survey of approximately 300 professional nurses, which highlighted that nurses who are able to work in accordance with their professional ethos are more content with their work and less likely to resign. In this study, Anja Huber sketches the path to this dilemma in four steps: she gives a historical overview of the nursing profession, analyses nurses’ changed working environment due to economic pressure, examines the changes in care professions using Luhmann’s theory and describes their consequences for the nursing profession today. In a fifth step, she develops possible solutions to the crisis. Anja Huber has a PhD and works as an organisational psychologist at the University of Applied Sciences in Zurich.