ArticlePolicy, politics & nursing practice2025
Exploring the Motivations, Challenges, and Integration of Internationally Educated Healthcare Workers in the UK: A Scoping Review.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Paradox of Workforce Self-Sufficiency: Policy Narratives, Professional Identity and Internationally Educated Nurses in the United Kingdom.Nursing inquiry · 2026Review
- Making nursing a better place: a discrete choice experiment to elicit the job preferences of early-career nurses in England.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Psychosocial and spiritual correlates of migration intentions among nursing and midwifery students: a descriptive correlational study.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- Experiences of EU and non-EU internationally educated nurses and midwives in the UK: a scoping review.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Integration experiences of internationally educated diagnostic radiographers working in the UK.PloS one · 2025Article
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Abstract
BackgroundHealthcare worker migration, influenced by push and pull factors, is accentuated by active recruitment strategies of developed nations. This scoping review explores experiences of internationally educated nurses, midwives, and healthcare professionals in the UK since 2010, acknowledging the historical context of UK recruitment policy and the implementation of codes of practice by the World Health Organisation and the UK government.MethodsUsing the Population, Concept, and Context framework, systematic literature searches were conducted in various databases, including CINAHL, Science Direct, Scopus, PubMed/Medline, and Google Scholar. Covidence software facilitated screening, with data systematically extracted and analyzed.ResultsThe scoping review included 24 papers focusing on nurses (
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