How nurses work in Germany

This time about interesting care - about the money and the content of the work :)
They asked for such an article.
It is clear that the image of the nurse and the department there is collective. But in general, somewhere around this is how we work. If you intend to become a nurse - do a resume with your strengths or if you do not know how to arrange this - ask for help to best resume writing services near my location https://medicalfieldjobs.com/best-resume-writing-services-near-my-location.

Annika gets up daily at 4.30 in the morning. The working day starts at 6.30, but you need to come before six, and leave the house at six in the afternoon to get 20 kilometers to work, taking into account traffic jams, traffic lights and other traffic. This is what many people in Germany do - they rarely manage to find work near their home.

Why does work begin so early? Otherwise, it is impossible to manage everything: you need to change into a uniform, drink coffee with colleagues, take keys and information about each patient in the department of the nursing home where Annika works from the night shift.

Coffee - the last minutes when you can sit relaxing. Then the “autopilot” turns on, and Annika starts her daily marathon. Count the painkillers and get those that will be given out today, prepare drops for everyone (tablets are usually prepared in advance, put into special dispensers), go through the rooms - put injections, measure sugar, stick painkillers and so on. At this time, two nursing assistants are already beginning the main morning pain - washing the patients. Annika is also involved in this work, she is expected to do no less than nurses, and in the meantime she will somehow manage to distribute pills, make dressings and perform other nursing procedures. There are 27 patients in the ward; most of them are no longer able to service themselves even minimally. Half are recumbent. Each patient needs to be washed (in a basin or in the shower), wiped, smeared with cream, dressed, combed, if this is a man - to shave, lift out of bed (all who rise, those who can not sit - recline in multifunctional chairs), take them out to the dining room. Give a drink, and the heaviest also have to feed. All this takes about 20 minutes per patient - otherwise you won’t have time.

We also forgot about therapeutic conversations, exercises for the prevention of contractures and “activating care” ... All this - if there is enough time. How often this happens in reality, the reader can imagine on his own.

In most countries of the world, only carers with an education of 1-2 years are doing this work. The nurse is only responsible for the medical part. In Germany, this is not so: all those present, including even the head of the department, carry out direct care.

Finally, all the patients were raised, washed, dressed, fresh and clean, sitting at breakfast, a social service came to entertain the old people - to sing songs with them, read aloud, conduct memory training and walk. Colleagues go to smoke on the terrace. We managed well today, without incident, time - only a quarter to eleven. One could even breathe quietly, but ...

Read the rest of the article on the X-ray at home in Moscow website. Then it says how much they pay and how to live on it :)

(oh, damn it, I foresee that now it will begin again that I’m denigrating everything :))
But it’s me who’s still positive).

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