Paulo Marques, researcher at CINTESIS – Center for Health Technology and Services Research/Nursing School of Porto (ESEP), believes that the new wave of nurses emigration has to do with the demotivation resulting from the “surgical strikes”.
Emigration requests from this professional class are known to have fired again in the first six months of 2019 after the volume of exits had slowed. In an interview to the newspaper Público, the Paula Marques says that one of the reasons for nurses to leave Portugal is the believe that they will not be valued at their real worth.
Last June, the researcher launched the book “Fora da Zona de Conforto – Testemunhos de enfermeiros que se viram na contingência de emigrar” (“Out of the Comfort Zone – Testimonials from Nurses Faced with the Need to Emigrate”), which brings together stories of colleagues who chose to work in other countries, in Europe and out of it, after the financial crisis.
