A crisis has been announced in the healthcare system, and there is a crying need for healthcare personnel. Now the new applicant figures for VG1 show that fewer students across the country are applying for Health and Education subjects. – We see a trend we are concerned about. We know that within these professions there is a huge need going forward, says competence manager in Møre and Romsdal county municipality, Kariann D. Flovikholm. She has spoken to colleagues in several county municipalities, and says they feel the same concern. Changed their mind Like many other tenth graders in the country, Eveline Stene Goksøyr and Christina Qvam at Averøy secondary school have submitted an application to upper secondary school. Qvam originally intended to apply for Health and Education, but changed his mind. Christina Qvam, a student at Averøy secondary school, chose instead to apply to Study Specialization after the hospitalisation. Photo: Hans-Olav Landsverk / news – After being hospitalized there, I got an insight into what it was really like, and then I dropped it. She therefore changed to Specialization in Studies. But Stene Goksøyr has always been clear about which line she wants to follow. – I have sought health. I want to become a midwife, and then I can go to work after my health. Eveline Stene Goksøyr will take two years of health studies, then take the last year to gain general study skills – instead of becoming a health worker. Photo: Hans-Olav Landsverk / news – It’s a “crap job” But Stene Goksøyr also understands that more and more people are applying for other lines. – I think people have been frightened. It is a “shit job”. There is a lot of work, and then there is poor pay and poor working conditions. It must change. The competence manager believes that negative media reports about the health sector affect the search pattern. – We know that young people pick up on what happens in the media, for example, discussions and social debates, says Flovikholm. Kariann D. Flovikholm, competence manager in Møre og Romsdal, says it is important that more people want to become healthcare workers. Photo: Hans-Olav Landsverk / news – Not just washing bums Jette Dyrnes, assistant nurse and leader of the Health Professionals’ Association, thinks it is sad that fewer and fewer people are applying for the line. – We do everything we can to talk up the profession, and convey that there are career opportunities even after you have become a healthcare worker. Jette Dyrnes, assistant nurse and leader of the Health Professionals’ Association. Photo: Linda Varpe Dyrnes wants young people to come out to the workplace and see what they are working on. – We want to show the diversity in the job. It’s not just washing the pelvis in the flushing room, or washing bottoms and changing nappies – that’s just a tiny part of our job. Wants the profession to get a higher status State Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Care, Karl Kristian Bekeng, says it is a challenge that fewer students apply to the line. – Health professionals will play a key role in meeting the challenges facing the health and care service in the next ten to twenty years. State Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Care, Karl Kristian Bekeng, points out that healthcare professionals must be given greater opportunities for further education. Photo: Photographer Esten Borgos / Borgos Foto AS He believes the decline is due to several things. Among other things, the children’s cohorts are smaller, but also the status of the profession. – The proportion of adults who apply to organized races to become healthcare workers is increasing. But also getting younger people to apply there will be a priority for the government.
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Fewer people apply for Health and early childhood subjects at VGS
