„Although all participants had a B2 certificate in German, the understanding of Swiss German – essential in the hospital – was often insufficient.“
So they were expected to be able to speak Swiss German with old and sick people within a few months? Who would have guessed that this could go wrong?
https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/pflegekraefte-aus-asien-baselbieter-spital-stoppt-projekt-mit-philippinischen-pflegenden
Posted by AutomaticAccount6832
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Can’t find people? Have they tried incentives like non dogshit salaries?
> doch das Verständnis von Schweizerdeutsch – essenziell im Spital – war oft unzureichend
Dafuq… last time I was in the hospital, maybe 30% of the doctors and nurses I had contact with would have understood Swiss German… it’s not like there are that many Swiss people left working there.
Also I’m not sure why it’s so essential to understand Swiss German (outside of the childern’s departement and the dementia departement, maybe). Can’t the patients be bothered to speak standard German?
How entitled do you have to be to demand a swiss german speaking nurse, looking at the current demographic situation and the poor working conditions? If its unbearable for you to speak standard german for a limited amount of time; this should be covered by the private model only, make them at least pay for their standards.
This “no Swiss German” excuse for people with B2 German sounds like racism to me. IMO, this would only be an issue with a small portion of patients, maybe elderly who suffered a stroke or similar. I wonder whether it came from the doctors or the patients.
Oh but all the German Doctors that dont speak Schwizerdütsch and are arrogant as shit are okey, right?
A pity.
Having B2 certificates and talking on that level is 2 different things. Then comes the Swiss German part and the german knowledge from a language school is useless.
I saw doctors in Switzerland who spoke worse german than me so we switched to English. I was really surprised and was wondering, how do they talk with their colleagues with their broken german and concluded that beggars can’t be choosers and this is what you get when you import workforce. It looks like in Basel they can still choose.
Are they retarded? There are no Swiss German certificates or courses the nurses could do in the Phillipines….
I don’t think Swiss people quite understand how challenging it is to essentially learn two languages – one of which is spoken but not written and the other is written but not spoken.
Always funny for me to read stuff like this. I remember back in 2009/2010 when I was looking for an apprenticeship in care and for the love of god, I couldn’t get one and neither could any of my friends and even back then I read headlines about how we are running into a crisis because we have a shortage of nurses.
What a joke – i work with a lot of people in the hospital. The people in the interview speak better German than some employees i meet day by day. Swiss German is difficult.
But the Project was designed for 18 Month. Was ever considered to prolong it? Doesn’t sound like this was ever an option for the hospital.