Introduction: Nurses educated in the European Union and European Economic Area are automatically given professional authorization to work in all member states, facilitating workforce mobility between countries. Along with many other European countries, Norway faces nursing shortages in healthcare. European Foreign Educated Nurses are often recruited to work in Norway by agencies or apply for work themselves.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: The aim of this systematic review was to identify the evidence contributed by qualitative research studies of foreign educated nurses' work experiences in a new country and to link the results to patient safety competencies.
Design: A systematic literature review of qualitative studies.
Methods: Electronic searches in the Ovid MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library and Cinahl databases and additional manual searches in five scientific journals.
The aim of the study was to explore the maternal health coping strategies of migrant women in Norway. The ethnic and cultural background of the Norwegian population have become increasingly diverse. A challenge in practice is to adjust maternal health services to migrant women's specific needs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To illuminate midwives' and public health nurses' perceptions of managing and supporting prenatal and postnatal migrant women in Norway.
Background: Migrant women are affected by social inequalities and likely to have had experiences during and after the migration process that could influence their physical, mental and social well-being.
Methods: Multistage focus group interviews were conducted and data were analysed in accordance to conventional interpretative qualitative content analysis.