Korean Nurses Adaptation to an American Hospital: An Examination of the Factors Influencing Critical Thinking Processes

摘要：

The dearth of healthcare workers in the USA has attracted nurses from other countries to immigrate to America to help alleviate the shortage. They enter a healthcare environment striving to reduce the alarming frequency of medical errors. Following several medical errors, critical incident interviews were conducted with Korean nurses and their nurse educators to explore factors that influence critical thinking processes in Korean nurses as they adapt to a new role and healthcare context.

关键词： Critical Thinking Stress Responses Cultural Adaptation

作者: Murray D. MacTavish

作者单位: Trinity Western University,Canada

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The Sixth Asian Conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development(国际人力资源开发研究会第六届亚洲年会)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 590-599

在线出版日期: 2007-11-02（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）