Given the Due to the corona-related shortage of nurses in Germany, clinics fear the negative consequences of poorly implemented compulsory vaccination. The concern is that the federal, state and local health authorities will not uniformly implement the compulsory vaccination for the health system, which will apply from March 15th. That said Roland Engehausen, the managing director of the Bavarian Hospital Society, the German Press Agency. Because that could fuel the competition between hospitals for the staff they are desperately looking for.
Data from the Stepstone job portal suggests how much the corona pandemic has exacerbated the shortage of nursing staff. There, the number of job advertisements for nursing professions in December 2021 was 85 percent higher than before the pandemic began in January 2020. Stepstone announced this on request. For comparison: the total number of job advertisements on the portal increased by 40 percent in the same period. The Düsseldorf-based company did not name any absolute figures.
“What must not happen is a different implementation from facility to facility and from health department to health department,” said Engehausen. “If an unvaccinated employee is allowed to continue working in one region and not in another without clearly understandable reasons, that would not be good.”