Challenges of Integration and support needs of Immigrant nurses : A literature review from a nursing perspective.
Agbede, Sandra; Asmah, Sister-Hope (2024)
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2024061323266
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2024061323266
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Changing demographics and the aging population in many countries around the world has led to an increased demand for nursing care. The World Health Organization (WHO) has projected the global demand for nurses will reach 12.9 million by 2035. Today, the global mobility of internationally trained nurses is helping many countries to meet their domestic shortages. The success of using internationally trained nurses to fill the gaps in domestic nursing, however, depends greatly on the integration process's effectiveness.
The objective of this thesis was to conduct a literature review to highlight the challenges faced by immigrant nurses during integration and understand the support needed to make their integration more seamless. The thesis leverages Madeleine Leininger’s transcultural theory as the theoretical basis for the study and employs a qualitative inductive content analysis to review available literature.
From the analysis, it is found that immigrant nurses face challenges such as cultural differences, social discrimination, licensing issues and communication barriers which hugely impact their successful transition and ability to provide high-quality care. The thesis proposes a series of intra-organizational, sociocultural, and professional development programs to support foreign trained nurses to be able to provide high-quality patient care and to be well-integrated in the society to the benefit of their new host countries.
The objective of this thesis was to conduct a literature review to highlight the challenges faced by immigrant nurses during integration and understand the support needed to make their integration more seamless. The thesis leverages Madeleine Leininger’s transcultural theory as the theoretical basis for the study and employs a qualitative inductive content analysis to review available literature.
From the analysis, it is found that immigrant nurses face challenges such as cultural differences, social discrimination, licensing issues and communication barriers which hugely impact their successful transition and ability to provide high-quality care. The thesis proposes a series of intra-organizational, sociocultural, and professional development programs to support foreign trained nurses to be able to provide high-quality patient care and to be well-integrated in the society to the benefit of their new host countries.