Migration of nurses and doctors: pull factors to work in Saudi Arabia

BACKGROUND: Although Saudi Arabia is a common destination to which nurses and doctors migrate, few studies have explored the pull factors attracting them to work in the Middle East and Saudi Arabia. This qualitative study explores the pull factors drawing nurses and doctors to work in Saudi Arabian...

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Autores principales: Almansour, Husam, Aldossary, Ameera, Holmes, Sandra, Alderaan, Thamer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10029214/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36941641
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-023-00809-5
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description BACKGROUND: Although Saudi Arabia is a common destination to which nurses and doctors migrate, few studies have explored the pull factors attracting them to work in the Middle East and Saudi Arabia. This qualitative study explores the pull factors drawing nurses and doctors to work in Saudi Arabian hospitals. METHODS: The study utilized a qualitative approach with focus groups. The participants included 83 doctors and nurses at two government hospitals. RESULTS: Five themes (rewards, job entry requirements, religion, influence of family and friends, and changing work environments) were identified based on the 10 focus group sessions. CONCLUSION: Moving forward, health managers should proactively plan the state of healthcare as the need for migrant healthcare workers changes.
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spelling pubmed-100292142023-03-22 Migration of nurses and doctors: pull factors to work in Saudi Arabia Almansour, Husam Aldossary, Ameera Holmes, Sandra Alderaan, Thamer Hum Resour Health Research BACKGROUND: Although Saudi Arabia is a common destination to which nurses and doctors migrate, few studies have explored the pull factors attracting them to work in the Middle East and Saudi Arabia. This qualitative study explores the pull factors drawing nurses and doctors to work in Saudi Arabian hospitals. METHODS: The study utilized a qualitative approach with focus groups. The participants included 83 doctors and nurses at two government hospitals. RESULTS: Five themes (rewards, job entry requirements, religion, influence of family and friends, and changing work environments) were identified based on the 10 focus group sessions. CONCLUSION: Moving forward, health managers should proactively plan the state of healthcare as the need for migrant healthcare workers changes. BioMed Central 2023-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10029214/ /pubmed/36941641 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-023-00809-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36941641
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