Facilitators and barriers to transition of international nurses into foreign healthcare environments

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-2009

Publication Title

International Nursing Review

Volume

56

Issue

2

First page number:

174

Last page number:

183

Abstract

There is a scarcity of research focusing on issues encountered by international nurses (INs) in their adjustment to foreign health-care environments. Increasingly, INs are relied upon to address staffing shortages in many Western countries. As such, it is vital to identify what facilitates and what the barriers are to the successful adjustment in order to assist their integration into new workplace environments.

Keywords

Acculturation; Assimilation (Sociology); Nurses; Foreign; Nurses—Supply and demand

Disciplines

Other Nursing

Language

English

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