From Uniform to Scrubs

UK to the USA:Nursing in a foreign country. Barriers to communication

Madwife is a Nurse and a Midwife trained in the UK who moved to the USA in 2005. I would like my blog to be concerned with the changes, the challenges and the advantages of nursing in another country. My blog will touch on personnal challenges, dilemma's, differences and how to deal with homesickness in work and in your home life.

11 Push It!	From Uniform to Scrubs Verbal, Written warnings and Termination from madwife2002 - I know a lot of Health Care Employees are worried or concerned they may be on the ladder from verbal warning to written warnings and then fired. For many this is not an unrealistic fear it is something which is affecting their daily working life and erodes into their home life. For some employees it is something which occurs out of the blue and... Last Reply by cosmicsun Nov 18 01:25 PM   25 comments   2,782 views
28 Push It!	From Uniform to Scrubs Socialised Medicine the myths and the facts from madwife2002 - Having worked in a country which has socialised medicine I can certainly see the pit falls and the benefits. What I dont understand is the fear behind having socialised medicine In my opinion socialised medicine has more positive benefits than negative benefits. The first and the most obvious concern is the cost to the patient and their... Last Reply by talaxandra Sep 24 06:53 PM   262 comments   7,384 views
20 Push It!	From Uniform to Scrubs LUCKY! to have a job from madwife2002 - During these hard financial times, I have heard management repeatedly tell staff 'you are lucky to have a job'. Now whilst we appreciate we are indeed fortunate to have employment being told this repeatedly to control a bad working environment is in my opinion bullying, in truth they are getting away with during this period of hardship amongst our... Last Reply by MaritesaRN Sep 16 12:31 PM   39 comments   2,905 views
27 Push It!	From Uniform to Scrubs Socialized Medicine: The Argument to Support moving forward from madwife2002 - Many people have a misunderstanding that if the government funds health care then THEY control our health care - a concept which in all reality is impossible. What they do provide is funding for hospitals and any facility that delivers health care. It's up to the facilities to decide how to spend the funds allocated to them. They will run... Last Reply by mediajunkie650 Sep 05 06:04 PM   131 comments   3,196 views
15 Push It!	From Uniform to Scrubs Socialised Medicine part 2 from madwife2002 - I found this interesting article on the internet which I would like to share with the readers of my blog, and which I am sure many will find interesting, thought provoking and extreemly relevent to my current theme. This is written by a young aspiring politcian in the UK. Last Reply by MedSurg32RN Aug 27 03:57 PM   38 comments   898 views
12 Push It!	From Uniform to Scrubs Communication 2 from madwife2002 - So here I was in the USA and I had a major problem being understood. I had no problem understand american English because we all watch american movies and TV shows, but the basic american does not watch British TV programmes and apart from Harry Potter not a lot of British films. In a effort to elaborate about barriers to communication I wanter to... Last Reply by Grace Oz Aug 26 08:10 AM   35 comments   2,004 views
11 Push It!	From Uniform to Scrubs Nursing shortages, Baby boomers and the immigrant nurse Part 2 from madwife2002 - Update on Nursing shortages, Baby boomers and the immigrant nurse It has been a couple of weeks since we reviewed the ongoing poll about foreign trained nurses in the USA and the trend towards blaming immigrant nurses for taking the jobs which should or should not belong to American Nurses. The opinion is almost equally divided between... Last Reply by K.P.A. May 27 06:15 PM   67 comments   6,301 views
5 Push It!	From Uniform to Scrubs Poll results on Foreign nurses in the USA from madwife2002 - http://allnurses.com/general-nursing-polls/us-rns-what-370278-page4.html The poll on what US nurses thought about foreign RN's ran for aprox 6 weeks and interestingly during the first 3 weeks only 50 people had voted, at that time it was almost evenly distributed between, foreign nurses being a valued member of the work force and that foreign... Last Reply by madwife2002 May 03 10:10 AM   No comments   355 views
8 Push It!	From Uniform to Scrubs Quality of Care and Foreign Nurses from madwife2002 - Importing foreign trained nurses is no new phenomenon, America has been importing nurses for over fifty years since 1965, according to B.L. Brush and A.M. Berger, "Sending for Nurses: Foreign Nurse Migration, 1965–2002" I would like to examine evidence to see if foreign trained nurses have an impact on quality of care and wages. There are... Last Reply by ghillbert May 03 04:03 AM   5 comments   741 views
7 Push It!	From Uniform to Scrubs Foreign Trained nurses in the US from madwife2002 - Recently on allnurses I read a thread that bothered me and felt it was worth investigation, it was regarding foreign nurses taking jobs from Americans. I feel this is a real fear amongst new Grads but in todays financial climate is it realistic or unjustified. Firstly I decided to research how many foreign trained nurses there are in the USA.... Last Reply by traumaRUs Apr 15 01:20 PM   11 comments   2,430 views
14 Push It!	From Uniform to Scrubs Nursing shortages, Baby boomers and the immigrant nurse from madwife2002 - So after leaving the polls running for several weeks the one I felt most interesting was the opinion of US trained nurses opinion on Foreign trained nurses, only 54 people voted on this poll which is surprising since we have hundreds of thousands members of which a large percent must be from the USA, (note to myself I must find out the figure from... Last Reply by amandamaren Apr 15 11:53 AM   17 comments   4,268 views
2 Push It!	From Uniform to Scrubs Polls regarding foreign nurses in the USA from madwife2002 - As part of my blog and investigating foreign nurses in the USA I am running several polls so please feel free to go and vote to enable us to explore common myths and either prove or disprove them. here are several links to current polls Poll 1 Wages and the Foreign RN ... Last Reply by madwife2002 Feb 14 08:49 AM   No comments   546 views
2 Push It!	From Uniform to Scrubs So What Does The Word Cultural Mean from madwife2002 - 1.the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc. 2.that which is excellent in the arts, manners, etc. 3.a particular form or stage of civilization, as that of a certain nation or period: Greek culture. 4.development or improvement of the mind by... Last Reply by madwife2002 Oct 05 03:53 PM   No comments   388 views
3 Push It!	From Uniform to Scrubs Communication Continued from madwife2002 - Daily I have some communication problems, there is an increase in these problems when I speak on the telephone. Face to face people tend to do better as they look for the non verbal communication signals. I always know when people are not understanding me, a 'look' comes on their face and I can almost read their mind 'Oh she's not American" "now... Last Reply by madwife2002 Oct 05 11:36 AM   No comments   367 views
2 Push It!	From Uniform to Scrubs Barriers to Communication from madwife2002 - The communication process encompasses every single part of our daily being. The use of both verbal and non-verbal communication is the very basis of how we converse, both on a personal and on a professional level. What is Effective Communication? In order to facilitate effective communication, one must understand how the process works. In its... Last Reply by madwife2002 Oct 03 12:15 PM   No comments   1,786 view

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