The Post-Placement Empowerment of Nurse Returnees in Indonesia

摘要

A large number of health workers especially nurses (79%) who work abroad raises new problems when they return to their homeland, for examples the difficulty of finding work with appropriate income or rewards. On the other hand, the potential possessed by post-placement overseas nurses such as language excellent, increased knowledge and skills, needs to be utilized and transferred to other health workers. Therefore, the aim of this study was to get an overview of the post-placement empowerment of nurse returnees. This type of research was qualitative research. The study was conducted in Jakarta, West Java and East Java that choose purposively. Informant were nurse returnees and also director or representation of stakeholders' division who related to this study. Data collection was done through an in-depth interview and focus group discussion and then analyzed using thematic analysis. This result shows that stakeholders take some efforts to empower nurse returnees such as socialize job opportunities and have plans by providing career opportunities to nurse returnees. The career opportunities are become a civil servant, nurse or clinical instructor, lecturer, being a resource person, taking part in a special assignment program from Ministry of Health or join a resettlement program abroad with appropriate income or salary. This research concludes that stakeholder have not mapped the career opportunities and have no specific mechanism to empower nurse returnees, but they had plans to empower nurse returnees.