****read ARTICICLE issues facing the professional health care workforce in the United States.
Article:
Rosenkoetter, M., Nardi, D., & Bowcutt, M. (2017). Internationally educated nurses in transition in the United States: Challenges and mediators. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 48(3), 139–144. doi: 10.3928/00220124-20170220-10
Your initial discussion response should capture the main focus of the article and provide substantive insight into the issues. You can highlight the pros and cons, offer options to address issues, or relate a professional experience. It is important to maintain professional decorum in all responses.
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Natasha Boyd posted Sep 27, 2023 3:14 PM
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According to the article, international migration has doubled worldwide since 1970, and nurses are increasingly becoming a part of this trend (Rosenkoetter et al., 2017). I see this a lot at the teaching hospital where I work. For example, there are a lot of fellow nurses that are from the Philippines and according to them, the job situation is better in the United States than their homeland. Reasons stated for leaving their home and migrating to the U.S. was for better wages, better working conditions, better benefits, better opportunities for growth, and better schools for their children. The biggest struggle for a lot of them was overcoming the language barrier. Effective communication is essential to providing quality healthcare and many of them had to learn English before they could even begin the transition process. They had to go through a teaching process to familiarize themselves with the healthcare practices and procedures that are taught here in the U.S. as well. According to a few of my co-workers, the classes were extremely detailed and tailored. There have been occasions where I had to translate, or more like clarify, details to patients for my Filipino nurses because they don’t understand what they are saying. As nurses, we have been educated on multicultural patient care, but not so much on multicultural co-workers. The process is basically the same in both cases though. I thank the nurses for their service because we all know how short the nursing field is everywhere. I also try to put myself in their shoes. They are coming to a new world from what they know. We talk different, eat different, educate our kids different, dress different, drive different, basically everything is different from their norm, and they have to learn this all over again. It’s scary just to think about it. The pro for them is a better life, and the con is staring over. Working together and helping them flourish, is the best help we can give or foreign nurses.
Rosenkoetter, M. M., Nardi, D., & Bowcutt, M. (2017). Internationally Educated Nurses in Transition in the United States: Challenges and Mediators. Journal of continuing education in nursing, 48(3), 139–144. https://doi.org/10.3928/00220124-20170220-10
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