کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1076283 1486537 2014 14 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Factors affecting the integration of immigrant nurses into the nursing workforce: A double hermeneutic study
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
عوامل موثر بر ادغام پرستاران مهاجر به نیروی کار پرستاری: مطالعه هرمنوتیک دوگانه
کلمات کلیدی
تنوع فرهنگی، سازمان های بهداشتی، هرمنوتیک دوگانه، کارکنان پرستاری بیمارستان، پرستاران مهاجر، تحقیقات دولت پرستاری
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی سیاست های بهداشت و سلامت عمومی
چکیده انگلیسی

BackgroundVariations in nursing practice and communication difficulties pose a challenge for the successful integration into the workforce of immigrant nurses. Evidence for this is found in cultural clashes, interpersonal conflicts, communication problems, prejudiced attitudes and discrimination towards immigrant nurses. While the evidence shows that integrating immigrant nurses into the nursing workforce is shaped by factors that are socially constructed, studies that examine social structures affecting workforce integration are sparse.ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to examine interplaying relationships between social structures and nurses’ actions that either enabled or inhibited workforce integration in hospital settings.DesignGiddens’ Structuration Theory with double hermeneutic methodology was used to interpret 24 immigrant and 20 senior nurses’ perceptions of factors affecting workforce integration.ResultsFour themes were identified from the data. These were: (1) employer-sponsored visa as a constraint on adaptation, (2) two-way learning and adaptation in multicultural teams, (3) unacknowledged experiences and expertise as barriers to integration, and (4) unquestioned sub-group norms as barriers for group cohesion. The themes presented a critical perspective that unsuitable social structures (policies and resources) constrained nurses’ performance in workforce integration in the context of nurse immigration. The direction of structural changes needed to improve workforce integration is illustrated throughout the discussions of policies and resources required for workforce integration at national and organisational levels, conditions for positive group interactions and group cohesion in organisations.ConclusionOur study reveals inadequate rules and resources used to recruit, classify and utilise immigrant nurses at national and healthcare organisational levels can become structural constraints on their adaptation to professional nursing practice and integration into the workforce in a host country. Learning from each other in multicultural teams and positive intergroup interaction in promoting intercultural understanding are enablers contributing to immigrant nurses’ adaptation and workforce integration.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: International Journal of Nursing Studies - Volume 51, Issue 4, April 2014, Pages 640–653
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