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Clinical nursing
RESEARCH ON NURSES‘ MIGRATION TO OTHER COUNTRIES
Vilma Rastenienė
Scientific advisor Prof. Habil. Dr. Žilvinas Padaiga. Kaunas Medical University, Nursing Faculty, Nursing and Social Care Department. – Kaunas, 2005. -58p.
Research goal is to determine basic reasons of studying nurses‘ intention for leaving to other countries and to foresee main directions of health care reform reducing nurses‘ migration.
Objectives: 1) to find out structural and quantitative changes of nurses in Lithuania during the period 1991 – 2003; 2) to carry out analysis of nursing specialists‘ education in pre-graduation studies at the period 1996 – 2003; 3) to identify migration causes of the studying nurses and their link with sociodemographic indicators and the acquired professional qualification; 4) to analyse attitude of the studying nurses to nursing practice changes, that could be motivating for nursing specialists not to leave the country.
Research methods. Research object – reasons of the studying nurses‘ intention for leaving to other countries.
Data base analysis of Lithuanian Health Information Centre (1996-2003) was carried out and transnational comparison with other countries data was performed, together with analysis of nursing specialists‘ education during pre-graduation studies (1996-2003) and studying nurses’ questionnaire survey with quantitative data analysis was accomplished.
Nurses‘ questioning was carried out from March 31 till May 11, 2005... [to full text]
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