Ošetřovatelské perspektivy 2022, 5(2):21-29 | DOI: 10.25142/osp.2022.013

TRANSCULTURAL NURSING – A VIEW OF NURSES WORKING ABROAD

Ludmila Koudeláková¹

¹ Fakulta zdravotnických věd, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci

Background: The paper deals with the view of nurses who have gained work experience abroad, nursing care abroad and subsequently in the Czech Republic. The paper describes the basic views of nurses, how they perceive the provision and methods of nursing care abroad and in the Czech Republic.

Aim: The main aim is to describe the view of nurses who worked abroad. One of the partial goals of the research survey is the achieved education and the reason why the nurses went abroad. The content of the nurse's work and its evaluation, the biggest differences in the nurse's
work in our country and in the given country. And what was the hardest thing after returning to the Czech Republic and the current view of health care in homeland and abroad.

Methods: The methodology uses interpretive, narrative methods. Semi-structured interviews are used in the research survey and a qualitative research scenario is created.

Results: The results were evaluated by qualitative coding, data analysis and interpretation of the results.

Discussion: In the research survey we meet personalities of nurses who have experience from different cultural backgrounds.  The  research  shows  that  nurses  are  affected by experience in a multicultural environment, they perceive the benefits of this work experience as well as problems related to workload. The most important thing seems to be to get acquainted with new approaches that have led to openness and the opportunity to work in a multicultural environment, with regard to the creation of cultural competencies and  the  contribution  of  nurses  with  cultural competencies  in  practice.

Conclusions: Nurses working in a culturally diverse environment have valuable knowledge and experience in the field of interpersonal cultural communication. This experience  and knowledge are important to pass on in nursing practice

Keywords: nurse, transcultural nursing, abroad, nursing care

Received: February 13, 2022; Revised: March 27, 2022; Accepted: April 25, 2022; Published: December 9, 2022  Show citation