Overseas nurses feel their skills are underused and they aren’t valued or respected, review finds
Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 11:31
in Psychology & Sociology
Many overseas nurses have negative experiences of living and working in the UK, particularly when it comes to feeling personally valued and professionally respected. The review, covering the views of nearly 4,000 overseas nurses, also found that discrimination and racism still exist in the National Health Service and that the reality of first-world UK nursing is often very different to what overseas nurses expect. Since 1997 approximately 100,000 international nurses from 50 countries have obtained UK registration, but almost a fifth did not renew their registration.