[Opinion of extra-hospital nurses about their work in hospitals]

The article displays the interviews of 32 nurses who have never worked within or have left hospitals. The aim is to assess the reasons of nursing shortage which is currently plaguing French hospitals. Many causes have been emphasized by the interviewed nurses: lack of responsibility and autonomy within the hospital departments, heavy work schedule and in particular night work, lack of career perspective ... Last but not least, the contact with the hospital work during their training has been often extremely disappointing.