Almost 300 nurses in Switzerland leave their jobs every month, mainly because of difficult working conditions. This phenomenon also affects young graduates, and poses a major challenge for Swiss hospitals. High workloads, low pay, difficulty reconciling private and professional life: nurses working conditions are increasingly leading them to leave their jobs. According to the latest report from the Observatoire de la santé, 36% of young nurses aged between 20 and 24 leave the profession during their first few years on the job. + Nursing shortage causes alarm We never adapt the workload, we never add someone when the service is too heavy, when someone is missing we don t replace them, a nurse who has been in post for less than a year in a large hospital in French-speaking Switzerland told 19h30 anonymously. I can t imagine being in this job five years from now at this pace, she said. So yes, I very often think about changing jobs. All my colleagues are thinking about changing jobs, an