scholarly journals Conscientious and proud but challenged as a stranger: Immigrant nurses’ perceptions and descriptions of the Norwegian healthcare system

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kari Dahl ◽  
Kirsti Jæger Dahlen ◽  
Kristian Larsen ◽  
Vibeke Lohne
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Qualitative Design ◽  
Written Narratives ◽  
Constructivist Perspective ◽  
Immigrant Nurses ◽  
Nurses Perceptions

The number of nurses in Norway educated outside of the European Union is increasing. The purpose of this study is to explore how immigrant nurses, all educated as nurses in their home countries, experience working as a nurse in Norway. The study has a qualitative design with a social constructivist perspective and is based on written narratives from open-ended questions representing 144 nurses from 18 different counties. Two main themes based on patterns from the participants’ text were constructed: ‘conscientious and proud as nurses’ and ‘impressed but challenged as strangers’. The findings are discussed in relation to research in cultural understanding. Immigrant nurses contribute with important knowledge and cultural competence to nursing and the Norwegian healthcare system, but there are also challenges. More knowledge is needed in education, research and in individual institutions about the contributions and challenges immigrant nurses bring with them.

scholarly journals How do European Young Muslims View European Identity?

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 871-884
Author(s):  
Branislav Radeljić
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
European Identity ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
European Economic ◽  
Constructivist Perspective ◽  
Muslim Communities

This paper examines the situation in the European Union where the growing presence of Muslim communities has already taken place. The initial understanding of the then European Economic Community as Christian Democratic, thus as Catholic, is no longer valid. In fact, from a social constructivist perspective, the presence of Muslims has posed a challenge and led to numerous debates relating to what has been promoted as European identity. Accordingly, this qualitative paper focuses on the coexistence of the two identities and questions to what extent young, EU-born, Muslims are ready to accept European identity, or, by contrast, continue to cultivate their own Muslim identity. The paper argues that the young Muslims can be divided into three different groups – traditionalists, neo-traditionalists and liberals, a division that is easily ignored by the society and, more importantly, policy makers, who consider only the first category when portraying Islam as a serious challenge to European identity. Conclusively, the paper notes that bigger efforts are needed on behalf of both the Europeans and the Muslims, efforts that will lead to successful co-existence and validate the EU’s cosmopolitan approach towards its otherness.

Lightning or Lightning Bug: The Role of the Language Gap and the Access to Proper Information on Entitlements in Cross-border Patient Mobility

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella Berki
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Reliable Information ◽  
Provider Communication ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Patient Mobility ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Patient Provider Communication

The language barrier and the lack of reliable information were identified as major practical obstacles of European patient mobility. Patients are highly concerned about the ability to communicate with their doctors when obtaining healthcare in a country where they do not speak the local language, as well as they find it complicated to gather all the necessary information about an unfamiliar healthcare system or about their cross-border healthcare entitlements conferred on them by the Union legislation. In a multilingual and patient-friendly European Union these issues must be tackled in order to ensure effective healthcare and to enforce patients’ right to cross-border healthcare. This article investigates the current legal tools within the European Union on language gap in patient-provider communication and access to information on cross-border healthcare entitlements. Moreover, it offers some possible solutions for the future.

Socialisation and decision-making in the Council of the European Union

2016 ◽  
pp. 122-140
Author(s):  
Kamil Ławniczak
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
European Union ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Third ◽  
Constructivist Perspective ◽  
Causal Framework ◽  
Oriented Approach

The complex system of decision-making in the Council of the European Union has many specific features which require explanation. This article presents a constructivist approach to this problem and focuses on the influence of socialisation. First, it explains why inquiry into the decision-making in the Council from the constructivist perspective is justified and then proposes the use of process-tracing, a method that allows to trace causal mechanisms linking the effects of socialisation and the characteristics of decision-making in the Council. Second, a typology of socialisation mechanisms and effects is presented. The third section is an attempt to use the inductive variety of process-tracing in order to explain certain qualities of decision-making in the Council. The final section outlines the theory-oriented approach to process-tracing, which could follow from the presented conceptualisation and explains the need to include the constitutive aspects of socialisation within the causal framework of process-tracing research.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE ECHTA/ECAHI PROJECT

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Egon Jonsson ◽  
H. David Banta ◽  
Chris Henshall ◽  
Laura Sampietro-Colom
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
European Union ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Executive Summary ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Base ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency

Health technology is an indispensable part of any nation's healthcare system. During the past 50 years, all member states that comprise the European Union have increased their technological base for health care, both in terms of knowledge and by investments in equipment, devices, and pharmaceuticals. Generally, this process has gone well. However, several problems have emerged related to the acquisition, diffusion, and use of modern health technology. Concerns have been also raised about the effectiveness and efficiency of already established procedures in health care.

Competences of adult education professionals in the European and Slovene context

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Borut Mikulec
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Adult Educators ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Education Professionals ◽  
The Core ◽  
Documentary Analysis

International and European intergovernmental organisations and the adult education research community all emphasise the importance of well-qualified personal working in the field of adult education. However, as previous research has shown, the diversity of the field is a ‘challenge’ to the greater professionalisation of adult education. Therefore, this paper investigates how the European Union conceptualises adult education professionalisation in the 21st century and how this is reflected in the Slovene adult education policy. For this purpose, the core official European Union and Slovene policy documents on the professionalisation of adult educators were analysed using documentary analysis. The theoretical framework of the Europeanisation of education was used, along with international and comparative perspectives in studies of adult education. Our findings indicate that in the Slovene context, the emphasis is on the recognition of different professional roles and competences that adult educators need to work successfully in different contexts rather than on the unification of their competences, which can be found in the European context.

scholarly journals Towards a European Health Union: What Role for Member States?

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 757-765
Author(s):  
Mary GUY
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Member State ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
National Healthcare ◽  
National Healthcare System ◽  
European Health ◽  
The One

Calls for a European Health Union apparently challenge long-standing beliefs that national healthcare system organisation is a Member State competence. Interaction between Member State and European Union (EU) levels therefore fundamentally requires reflection in the design, overall structure and legal basis of any European Health Union. Article 168(7) Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) provides the current version of the seemingly limited EU competence with regards to national healthcare system organisation and has received surprisingly little attention thus far. On the one hand, within the wider EU health competence ‘web’, Article 168(7) TFEU constrains EU adoption of measures incentivising Member States to use particular treatments or to increase intensive care units in response to COVID-19. On the other hand, Article 168(7) TFEU is challenged by the perceived influence of Country-Specific Recommendations issued in the context of the European Semester on national health policies. This opinion piece provides an original assessment of Article 168(7) TFEU to argue that Treaty change to redress the balance between EU and Member State competence regarding national healthcare systems may be uncalled for given both the flexibility afforded by the provision and the complexity and diversity of Member State healthcare systems.

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