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Long Working Hours and the Nursing Profession in Saudi Arabia

   

Added on  2023-04-21

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LONG WORKING HOURS AND THE
NURSING PROFESSION IN SAUDI
ARABIA
Presented by-

Saudi Arabia and
nursing workforce
Key issues: Long working hours for nurses in Saudi Arabia
More than 12 hours shift for nurses in the healthcare industry.

Saudi Arabia and the
working hours:
Causes of the issue:
Shortage of nursing
The educational system
Inadequate home country nurses
Dependent on expatriates
Communication issue
Burden on the experienced nurses (Lamadah
and Sayed 2014)

Shortage of nurses
Shortages of nurses in the
working environment are due
to:
Insufficient education
facility
Consideration of nursing as
an inappropriate job role
Long working hours
Insufficient salary scale
barriers in qualified nurses

The educational
system
The reason education system is
considered contributing to the
long hours of nursing workforce
are:
Absence of quality courses on
nursing in Saudi Arabia
Absence of quality nursing
education
Lack of experienced nurses
Lack of professionalism (Jradi,
Zaidan and Al Shehri 2013)

Inadequate
home country
nurses
Saudi Arabia has less home country nurses
Less opportunity of providing quality
nursing education.
Less salary structure
Inappropriate working hours
Long working hours

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