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.