In the past month, three nurses died in their sleep due to overwork, according to the Secretary-General of the Nursing Home.
The Secretary-General of the National Nursing Home stated that in the past month, three of our nurses died in their sleep, and their cause of death was Karoshi syndrome and death from overwork. Today, a nurse working in our hospitals is exhausted, unmotivated, and worn out. If they do not emigrate, they quit and change careers.
Mohammad Sharifi Moghadam, the Secretary-General of the National Nursing Home, said that in the past month, three of our nurses died in their sleep, and their cause of death was Karoshi syndrome and death from overwork. Today, a nurse working in our hospitals is exhausted, unmotivated, and worn out. If they do not emigrate, they quit and change careers. I am not in a position to give advice, but with the current situation, the emigration of nurses is inevitable. If I were in their position, I would leave Iran too.
He continued, saying that nurses in the United States earn between $4,000 to $7,000, and a nurse earns an average of $6,000 for one shift at a hospital. In Iran, not only are we facing a shortage of nurses, but due to low wages, a nurse is forced to work two shifts. When a night shift nurse is responsible for 25 patients, it is natural for mistakes to happen because the night shift nurse is the same one who worked at another hospital in the morning and afternoon shifts. In the U.S., with two hours of overtime, the error rate increased by 14%. In Iran, with 36 hours of overtime, how much will the error rate increase? It is not even countable.
