International Nursing Review
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International Nursing Review
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Running head: INTERNATIONAL NURSING 1International NursingStudent's Name: Instructor's Name:Date:
INTERNATIONAL NURSING 2International NursingIntroduction:The advent of a global culture has introduced the concept of migration of nurses at an increasingrate in the current situation [1, 4]. This is, in fact, a fast-evolving trend and a phenomenon thatpresents innumerable opportunities besides posing several challenges [1, 5]. The first of theprimary challenges include the cultural barriers that exist in the different parts of the worldwhere the nurse is recruited [1]. In nursing, another important challenge is the knowledge of thevarious psychosocial aspects of healthcare [1]. Since nursing is a profession that involves thesocial, economical, psychological, and legal aspects of a nation and its inherent culture, the nursewho migrates to another country for work has to necessarily adapt to all the aforesaid factors ofthe health sector [1]. ‘Portability’ or mobility has been a natural part of the profession of nursing[1]. The concept of portability involves the migration of skilled nurses across the world [1].Nursing has been considered a portable profession even historically [1]. Due to this, the skillednurses are typically enabled to travel across the globe [1]. Globalisation has increased theopportunity for nurses to travel across the world [1]. Nursing practices are typically learned byOverseas Qualified Nurses (OQN). The practices learned by OQN in the home country of thenurse are bound to vary according to different roles and functions of the nurse [1, 4].Additionally, the expectations from the nurse in different countries also differ [1]. These factorsare further dependent on the scope of nursing practice, the environment of professional and legalencompassments, the accountability of the nursing professional, the autonomy of professionalbehaviour, relationships between the various professionals of health care, technology in thehealthcare sector [1, 7].
INTERNATIONAL NURSING 3There is a striking dearth of nurses across the world [2]. Such inadequacy of nursingprofessionals worldwide has led to the concept of nurse migration [2]. Several of the nursestravel to recipient countries from their home countries [2]. Most of the developed world hostsnurses from more developing nations due to a severe shortage of nurses in these nations [2].Predominantly, the migration of nurses occurs from developing countries to developed nationsincluding the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada [2]. On the other hand,developing nations have exceedingly high populations [2]. Due to this, the patient populationexceeds the nursing facility [2]. Therefore, in entirety, healthcare systems across the world arefacing a severe crisis [1, 2]. Both the developing and the developed nations currently are unableto meet the requirements of the patient populations [2]. With a constant rise in the worldpopulation along with increased life expectancy, it is of great difficulty to achieve completenursing resources for the nation [2]. In developed countries, there is a periodic shortage ofhealthcare professionals, mostly nurses, which is a direct effect of having a greater extent ofdemand as compared to the supply of nurses and physicians. These nations rectify the shortageby enhancing the incentives within the labour market [2]. However, in developing nations, on thecontrary, there has always been a chronic shortage of healthcare staff [2]. This shortage is mostlyattributed to the lack of training and education amongst nurses due to a stringent lack ofresources [2, 5]. There is a marked shortage in the number of registered nurses in the healthcarescenarios across the world [2, 5]. Therefore, most of the migration of nurses occurs fromdeveloping nations to developed nations [2]. Similarly, nations such as Australia also supplynursing professionals to developing nations in order to cope with the challenging healthcareissues in those countries [1, 2]. There are several challenges which are posed to these nurses
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