Inadequate salaries in the face of excessive workloads make the nursing profession less and less attractive for the new generations . Added to this is the fact that there are too few graduates to compensate for the haemorrhage of professionals: in 2022 in Italy only 16.4 nurses graduated for every 100,000 inhabitants .
In Sardinia in 2022 (most recent year available) there are 5.25 employed nurses per thousand inhabitants (Italian average 5.13). The Island is thirteenth among the regions immediately behind Veneto, Marche, Valle d'Aosta and Piedmont, all under the threshold of 6 per thousand inhabitants.
"Our analyses - explains Nino Cartabellotta President of the Gimbe Foundation - clearly show the numerous factors that make the nursing profession less and less attractive : low salaries, limited career prospects , professional subordination, incongruence between training and work activity, which compromise the balance between work and private life and fuel burnout phenomena due to grueling work shifts. Last but not least, there is the risk of verbal and physical aggression, which further undermines the dignity and safety of the nursing profession".
(Online Union)
