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A deskilling and challenging journey: the lived experience of Indonesian nurse returnees

Overview of attention for article published in International Nursing Review, February 2017
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Title
A deskilling and challenging journey: the lived experience of Indonesian nurse returnees
Published in
International Nursing Review, February 2017
DOI 10.1111/inr.12352
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A. Kurniati, C.‐M. Chen, F. Efendi, R. Ogawa

Abstract

To illuminate the lived experiences of Indonesian nurses who previously worked as caregivers in Japanese residential care facilities, by exploring the journey of becoming returnees. The creation of bilateral agreements between Indonesia and Japan has facilitated the movement of Indonesian nurses to work as caregivers in Japan since 2008. While this decision raised concerns with regard to the degradation of nursing skills, little is known about this issue from the perspective of nurse returnees and how the experience affects their life. A hermeneutic phenomenological method was employed for this study. A purposive sample of 15 Indonesian nurse returnees participated in this study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in four of Indonesia's provinces between August and October 2015. Data were analysed thematically, supported by QSR NVIVO 10 software. Four key themes emerged from the data analysis: (i) returning home; (ii) going back to zero; (iii) walking through a difficult journey; and (iv) overcoming barriers. These findings described the lived experiences of nurse returnees when they got back to the country of origin. Indonesian nurse returnees experienced deskilling and struggled to re-enter the nursing profession or to find other non-nursing jobs. The significant impact of this migration on individual nurses with regard to maximizing the benefits of return migration deserves further investigation. The Indonesian government, jointly with other stakeholders, should develop a brain gain strategy to align returnees' expertise with the needs of the national labour market. The public-private partnership should be strengthened to utilize returnees in healthcare services.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 369 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 38 10%
Student > Master 22 6%
Student > Bachelor 22 6%
Researcher 16 4%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 2%
Other 34 9%
Unknown 228 62%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 79 21%
Social Sciences 14 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 3%
Linguistics 5 1%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 1%
Other 25 7%
Unknown 231 63%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 July 2022.
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#7,067,648
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Outputs from International Nursing Review
#149
of 588 outputs
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#127,695
of 429,192 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Nursing Review
#4
of 16 outputs
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