Guaranteed Equal Opportunities? The Access to Nursing Training in Central Europe for People with a Turkish Migration Background
This paper examines the reason for the small percentage of professional nurses with a Turkish migration background and investigates possibilities to increase this low amount. Our society grows older, and the number of chronic diseases increases. Furthermore, nursing professionals tend to migrate, an...
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doaj-78059c697da94e37bea267b45e8fc7fc2020-11-25T03:49:33ZengMDPI AGInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health1661-78271660-46012020-06-01174503450310.3390/ijerph17124503Guaranteed Equal Opportunities? The Access to Nursing Training in Central Europe for People with a Turkish Migration BackgroundJulia Keckeis0Margit Schäfer1Türkan Akkaya-Kalayci2Henriette Löffler-Stastka3Postgraduate University Program Transcultural Medicine, Medical University Vienna, 1090 Vienna, AustriaPostgraduate University Program Transcultural Medicine, Medical University Vienna, 1090 Vienna, AustriaPostgraduate University Program Transcultural Medicine, Medical University Vienna, 1090 Vienna, AustriaPostgraduate University Program Transcultural Medicine, Medical University Vienna, 1090 Vienna, AustriaThis paper examines the reason for the small percentage of professional nurses with a Turkish migration background and investigates possibilities to increase this low amount. Our society grows older, and the number of chronic diseases increases. Furthermore, nursing professionals tend to migrate, and the retirement of the baby boomer generation will also create a lack of professional nurses in Vorarlberg, Austria. People with a Turkish migration background, who are the second largest group without Austrian citizenship in Austria, could be an important resource for the upcoming lack of qualified nurses. The nursing profession could be a secure career opportunity for these people, and therefore it is of great importance to make access to professional nursing training easier for people with a Turkish migration background. This paper describes the effects of migration on society, institutions and individuals and gives an overview of concepts related to how to deal with this situation. This qualitative study investigates the access to nursing training for people with a Turkish migration background from three different points of view—those of experts, students and nurses with a Turkish migration background, and people with a Turkish migration background who have to pass a university entrance qualification—in the form of guided interviews. The results will illustrate structural and social barriers due to complex social dynamics and also highlight possibilities to reduce those barriers. Based on the results, prospects for professional nursing are deduced on the macro, meso and micro levels, which should generate an increasing number of nurses with a Turkish migration background.https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/12/4503migration and professional nursingTurkish nursestranscultural nursingdiversity in professional nursing |
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Guaranteed Equal Opportunities? The Access to Nursing Training in Central Europe for People with a Turkish Migration Background |
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Guaranteed Equal Opportunities? The Access to Nursing Training in Central Europe for People with a Turkish Migration Background |
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guaranteed equal opportunities? the access to nursing training in central europe for people with a turkish migration background |
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This paper examines the reason for the small percentage of professional nurses with a Turkish migration background and investigates possibilities to increase this low amount. Our society grows older, and the number of chronic diseases increases. Furthermore, nursing professionals tend to migrate, and the retirement of the baby boomer generation will also create a lack of professional nurses in Vorarlberg, Austria. People with a Turkish migration background, who are the second largest group without Austrian citizenship in Austria, could be an important resource for the upcoming lack of qualified nurses. The nursing profession could be a secure career opportunity for these people, and therefore it is of great importance to make access to professional nursing training easier for people with a Turkish migration background. This paper describes the effects of migration on society, institutions and individuals and gives an overview of concepts related to how to deal with this situation. This qualitative study investigates the access to nursing training for people with a Turkish migration background from three different points of view—those of experts, students and nurses with a Turkish migration background, and people with a Turkish migration background who have to pass a university entrance qualification—in the form of guided interviews. The results will illustrate structural and social barriers due to complex social dynamics and also highlight possibilities to reduce those barriers. Based on the results, prospects for professional nursing are deduced on the macro, meso and micro levels, which should generate an increasing number of nurses with a Turkish migration background. |
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migration and professional nursing Turkish nurses transcultural nursing diversity in professional nursing |
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