Year: 2017
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate factors associated with nurses working in a multinational medical team in normal daily job, disaster relief or health mission. The aim is to collect data from literature and stakeholders interviews to identify the challenges of multinational teamwork and find possible ideas for nurse education that address these challenges. \n \nIn the first part results of a short survey concerning increasing globalization in the healthcare sector, elements of teamwork in medical profession and multinational team-work in business environment, aviation and astronautics and defence forces are presented. \n \nTo find answers to the research questions a descriptive literature review with a systematic approach was combined with semi-structured stakeholders interviews. A configurative review method with scoping and snowball literature search and inductive qualitative con-tent analysis was applied. \n \nSummative content analysis resulted in seven categories: multinational teamwork, cultural competence, cultural self-awareness, professional identity/competence, communication, respect and education/training. The results of literature review and interviews are combined in a process of “lines-of–argument-synthesis” to find comparative understand-ing and/or discrepancies. \n \nThe collected data supports the view that there is a need for education in teamwork skills, communication skills and cultural competence for nurses working in multinational teams. However the discussion and conclusions also suggest that empiric study results with ex-plicit data on failures and disappointments in multinational teamwork with facts and fig-ures on causes and effects is not available. Empiric data on this subject would give valua-ble information on what is and isn’t working in multinational teamwork and thus would provide insight of what precisely needs to be done to improve multinational teamwork and why.
Source: Theseus (Ammattikorkeakoulujen)
Authors: Van Vliet, Anna Wilhelmina
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2770112412