Nurses are often at the center of hospital malaise. This is why the Department of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (Drees) is publishing this August 24 a survey on the professional trajectories of hospital nurses who entered the profession between 1989 and 2019. Based on data from the Insee, the public administration department wishes to describe the share of hospital nurses who still hold this profession throughout their careers and whether they still perform this job as an employee in another sector or as a freelancer.
First lesson: people who became nurses between 1989 and 2019 are less and less likely to hold paid employment over the years. Whether hospitable or not. The percentage, which is only 87% after five years of practice, drops to 79% after ten years. Among the latter, 54% have kept their profession in the hospital when 11% are still salaried nurses but for another type of employer.
Ten years after the start of their career, 17% of these women are self-employed, as nurses or with another profession. In addition, 10% exercise as a liberal exclusively, and 2% in a mixed capacity. Another important point: when these nurses become mothers of their first child, the rate of salaried employment remains stable. If this new situation does not lead mothers to withdraw from paid employment, they reduce their volume of work: the DREES perceives a reduction of 0.14 full-time equivalent jobs, after five years.
