Table 2 Typical words and excerpts from main themes, subthemes
Theme | Sub-theme | Typical words | Typical extract |
|---|---|---|---|
Education and career path | The training gap | Train, master, degree, course, science, university, bachelor, diploma, apply | “I find the job beautiful and enjoy it. However, university of applied sciences training should prepare better for everyday professional life.” |
The need to preserve passion in the Job | Happy, passion, job, enjoy, suit, field, retire, great, team, supervisor | “The passion, I am very enthusiastic about my work and I love the work in itself, however the current conditions make it difficult to enjoy my job.” | |
Career paths | Year, month, ago, change, job, retire, answer, last, end, leave, retirement, resign | “I have changed jobs since January 2023 because working conditions and values no longer met my expectations. If done 1 year ago, this same questionnaire would have had very different answers.” | |
A failing system | A context of shortage | Staff, long, treat, know, colleague, healthcare, term, system, disease, person | “The healthcare system is very disrupted. Everywhere there is a lack of staff and the number of patients and their high expectations/demands are constantly increasing.” |
The quality of care | Care, quality, money, safety, resident, resource, wrong, ensure, human, achieve | “healthcare workers are asked to do more (care, etc.) but without having the necessary resources, especially human, to achieve this, and this results in less and less quality care.” | |
A need for wage adjustments | Rate, wage, salary, low, cost, increase, pay, live, value, responsibility, adjustment | “Wages are too low compared to the responsibilities, there is a lack of staff” | |
Concerns about professionals’ health and the healthcare system | Health, professional, general, impact, insurance, find, exhaustion, important | “We become health professionals for a part of humanity but it is not recognised by decision makers resulting in a loss of meaning.” | |
An administrative overload | Administrative, report, admin, spend, insurance, treatment, task, bill, patient | “The increasingly significant part of administrative work (including reporting to insurance companies) and the time it takes decreases the time I can spend with patients, decreases my energy and greatly alters my pleasure in practicing my profession.” | |
Working schedules | Day, hours, night, shift, schedule, holiday, week, weekend, work, overtime | “we work based on irregular schedules 365 days/365, day, night, weekends, holidays. With this working time, it's not possible to be part of society” | |