Resignation of Nurses in China

An Internet post claimed that at least 200 nurses recently resigned en masse from a large hospital in Zhejiang Province in China. However, this is actually not a new phenomenon. As is the case for doctors (1,2), the current nursing situation in public hospitals is not very optimistic. According to rough estimates, there is hundreds of nurses fried squid public hospital in Zhejiang Province every year. They resign to take up jobs in the private sector, become medical representatives, start their own business, or become housewives. There is a current social phenomenon in the medical system involving the shortage of health care workers on one hand and the high nurse turnover rate on the other hand. This phenomenon has made it challenging for the government to solve the two major problems of difficulty and costliness in seeing a doctor. The many reasons for this phenomenon in China include the difficulty and expense involved in seeing a doctor, unreasonable medical pattern, a relative lack of medical resources, and a less-than-perfect medical system. The accomplishment of health system reform in China still requires a great deal of work.