The healthcare sector in Noord-Holland Noord is eager for new staffaccording to a tour of NH along healthcare organizations and hospitals, where hundreds of vacancies are currently open.
And that there is a shortage of staff everywhere, also notes 20-year-old Nienke Groot from Waarland, who is following a nurse training at Hogeschool Inholland in Alkmaar.
“As a trainee you will be released very quickly. Now I will manage, but those who are less sure of themselves needs more help. A trainee should be able to walk with someone every day. Now you are mainly seen as a cheap power that can help nicely.”
And also with her part -time job in elderly care, she soon gained many responsibilities. “Actually, I should be worked out extensively for my current position, but there is just no staff for that. I sometimes get people out of bed on my own.”
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Nienke does not doubt her study choice. “I think it’s nice to work with people and in healthcare not a day is the same,” she says. Yet at first she didn’t know what she wanted to do after HAVO.
She took a gap year. “I actually wanted to be at Defense, or at the police. A profession in uniform, so to speak.” She reported, but just did not come through the psychological test of Defense. “I could have tried it again a year later, but I didn’t want that.”
Her mother pointed her to an open day of nursing training in Alkmaar. “She thought it was something for me. But if your mother says so, then of course you don’t want that.” Yet she went there. And it was a hit.
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