Health concerns of intimacy partner violence (IPV) among transnational marriage immigrant women in Taiwan: A thematic analysis

12^th Nursing and Healthcare Congress

October 03-05, 2016 Vancouver, Canada

Maya Ebrahimi Zanjani

University of South Australia, Australia

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nurs Care

Abstract :

Recruiting Overseas Qualified Nurses (OQNs) from developing countries has been practiced as a solution to the shortage of the nursing workforce in developed countries, such as Australia. The need for Qualified Nurses will increase due to increasing chronic diseases following an escalating ageing population. The transition of OQNs into developed countries� health care system is challenging and this group of nurses faces difficulties integrating into such systems. The common challenges reported in many studies are language barriers, cultural disparities and the lack of support in the work place. Among the many articles reviewing, criticizing and analyzing the experience of OQNs in the Australian hospital settings none examines how these group of nurses adjust into the Australian aged care settings. OQNs face different challenges in Residential aged care facilities (RACFs) due to different expectations compared to the hospital environment and the concept of residential aged care in nursing practice. Therefore, proposed research aims to identify the adjustment challenges and issues confronted by OQNs. It will investigate the individual, social, cultural and service-related factors that enable or hinder successful integration of OQNs into the Australian Health Care System (AHCS). The study is an exploratory and descriptive mixed method investigation and a quantitative and qualitative method. Quantitative questionnaire data are analyzed through SPSS and thematic analysis is applied to analyze qualitative data. Research findings and their implications for practice and future research will be discussed. This study will contribute new and unique insights to knowledge in relation to key factors influencing integration of OQNs into the AHCS and their adjustment into Australian society.

Biography :

Email: maya.ebrahimi_zanjani@mymail.unisa.edu.au