Public Health Issues on Global Nursing Migration: An Integrative Literature Review

Verian, Ronaldo

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Ronaldo Verian, RN, MOH, MPH
Worldlink Review, LLC, Anaheim, CA

Learning Objective 1: The learner will be able to identify the push and pull factors of nursing migration.

Learning Objective 2: The learner will be able to identify public health issues surrounding global nursing migration.

Nursing migration is a known effect of the global nursing shortage crisis. Health worker migration is generally agreed as market driven. In business, this is a natural exchange of resources (International Labour Office 2006). However, other sectors in society are generally affected by this exchange which is not always advantageous to either the sending or recipient country. This can become a public health issue where the consequences can threaten the health and safety of a population.

After progressive and rigid review of the databases, the publications list under the Research Centre of the International Centre on Nurse Migration with 30 out of 128 listed publications were chosen because of its sole dedication to the study of nurse migration including the most recent and updated work commissioned by the centre.

The International Centre on Nurse Migration mentions important factors behind nurse migration. They have been categorized as either push or pull factors.

The study contains (a) published reports about global nursing migration, (b) documented public health issues related to global nursing migration and (c) summary of key solutions to public health issues in nursing migration.

The interventions to the public health issues on global nursing migration have eluded scrutiny. It is therefore part of the research work to document evidenced-based solutions to these issues. At the conclusion of the literature review is a proposed potential model for viewing public health issues on global nursing migration

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