Overcoming strangeness and communication barriers: A phenomenological study of becoming a foreign nurse

International Nursing Review

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 263-269

  Magnusdottir, H ^a  

^a LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Communication Barrier; Foreign; Hospital; Iceland; Language; Nurses; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOREIGN WORKER; FRIEND; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; ICELAND; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WORKPLACE;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; FEMALE; FOREIGN PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL; FRIENDS; HEALTH FACILITY ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; ICELAND; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WORKPLACE;

EID: 27644475208     PISSN: 00208132     EISSN: 14667657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-7657.2005.00421.x     Document Type: Article

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