The experience of discrimination by US and Internationally educated nurses in hospital practice in the USA: A qualitative study

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 350-359

  Wheeler, Rebecca M ^a   Foster, Jennifer W ^a   Hepburn, Kenneth W ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coping strategies; Discrimination; Ethnicity; Internationally educated nurses; Nursing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSES; NURSES, INTERNATIONAL; NURSING, SUPERVISORY; PREJUDICE; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891943439     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jan.12197     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Aiken L.H. (2007) US nurse labor market dynamics are key to global nurse sufficiency. Health Services Research 42(3 Pt 2), 1299-1320.
2. Allan H.T., Cowie H. & Smith P. (2009) Overseas nurses' experiences of discrimination: a case of racist bullying? Journal of Nursing Management 17(7), 898-906.
3. Allen H. & Larsen J.A. (2003) 'We Need Respect': Experiences of Internationally Recruited Nurses in the UK. European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Surrey, BC.
4. Beechinor L.A. & Fitzpatrick J.J. (2008) Demands of immigration among nurses from Canada and the Philippines. International Journal of Nursing Practice 14(2), 178-187.
5. Buerhaus P., Auerbach D.I. & Staiger D.O. (2009) The recent surge in nurse employment: causes and implications. Health Affairs 28(4), w657-w668.
6. Charmaz K. (2006) Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide through Qualitative Analysis. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
7. Creswell J.W. (1998) Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Traditions. Sage Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA.
8. Creswell J.W. (2003) Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches. Sage Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA.
9. Dicicco-Bloom B. (2004) The racial and gendered experiences of immigrant nurses from Kerala, India. Journal of Transcultural Nursing 15(1), 26-33.
10. Dovlo D. (2005) Wastage in the health workforce: some perspectives from African countries. Human Resources for Health, 3(6).
11. Ea E.E. (2007) Facilitating acculturation of foreign-educated nurses. The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing 13(1).
12. Giddens A. (1984) The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration. University of California Press, Berkeley.
13. Gullatte M.M. & Jirasakhiran E.Q. (2005) Retention and recruitment: reversing the order. In From Nursing Management: Principles and Practice (Gullatte M.M., ed.), Oncology Nursing Society, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 217-233. Reprinted with permission. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing 9(5), 597-604.
14. Hagey R., Choudhry U., Guruge S., Turrittin J., Collins E. & Lee R. (2001) Immigrant nurses' experience of racism. Journal of Nursing Scholarship 33(4), 389-394.
15. Hawthorne L. (2001) The globalisation of the nursing workforce: barriers confronting overseas qualified nurses in Australia. Nursing Inquiry 8(4), 213-229.
16. Hine D.C. (1989) Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
17. Johnstone M. & Kanitsaki O. (2009) The spectrum of 'new racism' and discrimination in hospital contexts: a reappraisal. Collegian 16(2), 63-69.
18. Jones C.B. (2008) Revisiting nurse turnover costs: adjusting for inflation. Journal of Nursing Administration 38(1), 11-18.
19. Kulwicki A., Khalifa R. & Moore G. (2008) The effects of September 11 on Arab American nurses in metropolitan Detroit. Journal of Transcultural Nursing 19(2), 134-139.
20. Likupe G. (2006) Experiences of African nurses in the UK National Health Service: a literature review. Journal of Clinical Nursing 15(10), 1213-1220.
21. Lofland J., Snow D., Anderson L. & Lofland L.H. (2006) Analyzing Social Settings: A Guide to Qualitative Observation and Analysis. Wadsworth Thompson Learning, Belmont.
22. Magnusdottir H. (2005) Overcoming strangeness and communication barriers: a phenomenological study of becoming a foreign nurse. International Nursing Review 52(4), 263-269.
23. Mays N. & Pope C. (1995) Rigour and qualitative research. British Medical Journal 311(6997), 109-112.
24. Nunez-Smith M., Pilgrim N., Wynia M., Desai M.M., Jones B.A., Bright C., Krumholz H.M. & Bradley E.H. (2009) Race/ethnicity and workplace discrimination: results of a national survey of physicians. Journal of General Internal Medicine 24(11), 1198-1204.
25. Pittman P., Folsom A., Bass E. & Leonhardy K. (2007) U.S.-Based International Nurse Recruitment: Structure and Practices of a Burgeoning Industry. AcademyHealth, Washington, DC.
26. Raver J.L. & Nishii L.H. (2010) Once, twice, or three times as harmful? Ethnic harassment, gender harassment and generalized workplace harassment. Journal of Applied Psychology 95(2), 236-254.
27. Richards H. & Emslie C. (2000) The 'doctor' or the 'girl from the University'? Considering the influence of professional roles on qualitative interviewing. Family Practice 17(1), 71-75.
28. Sandelowski M. & Barroso J. (2003) Classifying the Findings in Qualitative Studies. Qualitative Health Research 13(7), 905-923.
29. Seago J.A. & Spetz J. (2008) Minority nurses' experiences on the job. Journal of Cultural Diversity 15(1), 16-23.
30. Shin S. & Kleiner B.H. (2001) The Psychological Effects of Working in a Racially Hostile Environment. International Journal of Sociology & Social Policy 21(8/9/10), 59-64.
31. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2010) The Registered Nurse Population: Initial Findings from the 2008 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses. Retrieved from http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/rnsurveys/rnsurveyinitial2008.pdf on 25 September 2010.
32. Wilson D.W. (2003) Conceptualizing African American registered nurses as a vulnerable population. Journal of Multicultural Nursing & Health (JMCNH) 9(1), 61-67.
33. World Health Organization (2010) WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel. In Sixty-third World Health Assembly (WHO, ed.), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
34. Xu Y. (2007) Strangers in strange lands: a metasynthesis of lived experiences of immigrant Asian nurses working in Western countries. Advances in Nursing Science 30(3), 246-265.
35. Xu Y., Zaikina-Montgomery H. & Shen J.J. (2010) Characteristics of internationally educated nurses in the United States: an update from the 2004 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses. Nursing Economic$ 28(1), 19.