Global Nursing Migration

RUNNING HEAD: GLOBAL NURSING MIGRATION
GLOBAL NURSING MIGRATION
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Introduction
There are many social and cultural challenges faced by countries at national and state
level and these problems are diverse across nations that finally lead to a ‘flawed’ national and
global healthcare network. The incidences of nurses getting recruited to foreign countries has
drastically increased given a common scenario of ‘nursing crisis’. There is a deep and
complex interplay between immigration and emigration of registered nurses which remains
unattended in spite of robust policy formulation by World health organization.
Review of Literature
Wong et al., 2015 aims at analyzing the World health organization documents to
recognize the major issues associated with global nursing migration. The study uses a quality
content analysis as a methodology to scrutinize World health organization document
published between 2007 and 2012. A thematic analysis was done to determine the global
migration issues. The sample used a total of 32 documents. 31 subcategories were identified
from which four themes were determined. As for themes - Leadership and management
account mostly for the existent global nursing migration issues while deficient nursing
practice, lack of nursing research and incompetency in nursing education standards were the
other issues related to three other themes. The study considers a more methodical and
systemic form of organizational leadership to gain on a well ordered nursing practice globally
in spite of nursing migration but the study’s only limitation was that it uses a small sample
size of 32 documents. They implication of the research is to guide the healthcare policy
makers to value the concept of ‘ethical nursing’ to comply with the global practice guidelines
even nursing migration is coexistent in the framework. The study does well by arguing with
the ‘deficient’ areas of WHO policies – as the study uses a diverse range of country specific
documents – to explore the problem deeply.

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England (2015) aims to study the correlation of nursing migration in United States to
manage a difficult situation of ‘nursing crisis’ (Lala, Lala & Dangor, 2017) in the country.
This journal article studies various cultural and ethical differences in practices of
internationally educated registered nurses the distribution of these nurses in various parts of
United States. The study includes concepts like ‘global healthcare system’ and ‘global
healthcare economy’ (Kingma, 2018) to analyze the process and impact of transnational
nurse migration. The implication of this research focuses on the need for exploring more into
aspects of practice, process and outcomes of global nursing migration at nation- state level.
The study succeeds in exploring a vast spectrum of reasons related to global nursing
migration but the study’s only limitation was it did not use a quantitative method to
statistically determine the ‘economy gaps’ in global nursing network.
Effendi et al. (2015), aims to study the gray areas of healthcare policies and its
relation to global nursing migration. The study analyzes the work culture of Indonesia that
promotes immigration and emigration of clinical nurses – while the country suffered from
‘nursing crisis’. The problems lie in the very training, nurturing and development of national
nurses. The study concludes by finding complex ethical (Henly, 2016) and operational issues
(of nursing emigration) as it plunged into an understanding of how ‘brain waste’ and salary
differences(Oda, Tsujita & Rajan, 2018) affected the ‘issue’ between a domestic Japanese
nurse and an Indonesian nurse who has been working in the same hospital. It should be
appreciated how the study argues on the need of workforce retention to help the country’s
own healthcare framework and the conclusion is relevant as well. The implication of this
study is to equate and equalize the financial and social rights amongst foreign and local
nurses. The only limitation with this study is that it not use a ‘control’ group to measure the
differences.