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Motivations, Migration and Nurses' Experiences

Motivations, Migration and Nurses' Experiences

Likupe, Gloria

Paperback

General Education

ISBN10: 3848491737
ISBN13: 9783848491735
Publisher: Lap Lambert Academic Pub
Published: Aug 7 2012
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The workforce in the British National Health Service has become more diverse due to the increased recruitment of overseas nurses in the late 1990s and early 2000s. This diversity has brought some positive effects. However, overseas nurses have frequently cited racism and harassment as distressing experiences in their working life in NHS hospitals, as well as in the private sector. This book explores motivations and experiences for black African nurses who leave their countries and move to the United Kingdom. A migratory framework if used to analyse these experiences and place them in the context of skilled migration in a globalised world. Based on a qualitative study conducted among black African nurses and their managers, this book describes motivations migration and experiences obtained via personal interviews. It covers issues such as managing diversity, cross-cultural communication, ethnicity and employment as well as professional and social experiences of migrant nurses. This book is an essential reading for human resource managers in health care, diversity managers and trainers, mentors of overseas nurses and diversity and inclusion educationists. It provides an insight

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