Globalization of Healthcare: Addressing the Nursing Shortage
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Globalization of Healthcare: Addressing the Nursing Shortage
Role of professional RN’s
Nurses are an inextricable part of delivering quality healthcare to patients across the globe. Unfortunately, their numbers are globally reducing creating a shortage. The nurses in third world countries in a pursuit for greener pastures are expatriated to the developed world to satisfy the demand often at the expense of their local health systems (Seloilwe, 2005). Their desperation and employment based working permit makes them ripe for exploitation by employers. It follows that foreign nurse are discriminated, paid lower than the local. Similarly, there are no structures in place to facilitate their transition into a new culture.
As global health has become intertwined, the nursing policies and education quality of nurses in the opposite side of the world may have effects on the healthcare systems on the other side. It follows that a universal regulatory body that will oversee the policies of nurses globally is necessitated (Carlton, Ryan, Ali, & Kelsey, 2007). Similarly, globalization has caused developed countries to take interest and subsequently fund the educational systems of third world countries to ensure that the quality of nurses is synchronized.
Personal Opinion
There have been emerging issues
on the lack of diversity in the gender of internationally educated nurses.
Nursing is profession dominated by females. I believe that the allegations of
commoditization of females raised by feminist theorists are invalid (Cutcliffe
& Yarbrough, 2007).
The former systemic barriers of entry into other professions forcing them to
become nurses have been lifted. Women are not forced to become nurses rather
they chose and are passionate about their jobs. The migration of nurses to
other countries is only warranted if the exporting country has a surplus of
these professionals. The world should look for an enduring solution for the
shortage of nurses as opposed to this short-term fix.
References
Carlton, K. H., Ryan, M., Ali, N. S., & Kelsey, B. (2007). Integration of global health concepts in nursing curricula: A national study. Nursing Education Perspectives, 28(3), 124-129.
Cutcliffe, J. R., & Yarbrough, S. (2007). Globalization, commodification, and mass transplant of nurses: Part 2. British Journal of Nursing, 16(15).
Seloilwe, E. S. (2005). Globalization and nursing. Journal of advanced nursing, 50(6), 571-571.