Yes can confirm this is real. I know both German and Dutch nurses who say that the workload is incredibly high. One older nurse also said the pressure today is much higher than years ago.
I am not surprised. Healthcare costs have been rising faster than inflation for several years. It's a difficult sell to increase budgets, so we have to resort to these "invisible" cost cutting measures to try and stay afloat.
This will continue to happen as long as automation in health care is slower than in other sectors. It's due to Baumol's Cost Disease:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effectThe same is true for other sectors that struggle with automation like education.
So after every industry is fully automated and everyone has lost all their jobs, do we all just hold hands and walk into the sea together or...?