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Sweden is a Northern European country with a consti-tutional monarchy and a parliamentary government (Anell, Glenngård & Merkur, 2012) and a total population of 10 million (Eurostat, 2017). Cornerstones of the Swedish health care system are the principles of human dignity, need and solidarity, and cost-effectiveness, with an emphasis on equal access to care regardless of socioeconomic status ...
- 2019
Apr 22, 2024 · Long-term care workers per 100 people aged 65 and over, 2021: 11.7. Share of informal carers among the population aged 50 and over, 2019. – Daily carers: 4. – Weekly carers: 10. Share of long-term care workers who work part time or on fixed contracts, 2021. – Part-time: 50.3%. – Fixed-term contract: 26.8%.
- Themes and Categories
- Getting A License – A Different Story
- The Work Is Familiar, Yet A Lot Is New
- Trying to Master A New Language
The results of the analysis are presented as nine categories and three themes: ‘Getting a license – a different story,’ ‘The work is familiar, yet a lot is new, ’ and ‘Trying to master a new language’ (Table 3). Key themes and verbatim quotes are also presented in Table 4.
The first theme involves the various experiences during the process of applying for a Swedish license. The differences were related to whether the nurses and doctors came from the EU or outside the EU.
This theme concerns the experience of starting work at a new workplace in a new country. It involves the IENs’ and IMGs’ perceptions about how their new employer welcomed them, what differences they found in the host country compared to their earlier work experiences, but also feelings of being competent as a nurse or a doctor. Furthermore, it conc...
This theme concerns the importance of mastering a new language and how to learn it. It also concerns how lack of language skills impacts work performance and inclusion at work. Here the professions are presented together, as what they had to say was very similar.
- Elisabet Eriksson, Sören Berg, Maria Engström, Maria Engström
- 2018
Sep 16, 2021 · Background Nurses and midwives play a critical role in the provision of care and the optimization of health services resources worldwide, which is particularly relevant during the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, they can only provide quality services if their work environment provides adequate conditions to support them. Today the employment and working conditions of many nurses worldwide ...
- Alba Llop-Gironés, Ana Vračar, Gisela Llop-Gironés, Joan Benach, Joan Benach, Joan Benach, Livia Ang...
- 2021
Jun 8, 2020 · Norwegian Nurses Organization (Norsk Sykepleierforbund) is a national professional association and trade union representing registered nurses, midwives and nursing students in Norway. The ...
Step 10: Start working. All the preparation has paid off, and you now have a license to work as a nurse in Sweden. There are many opportunities for work within both the public and private sectors. Short facts about nurses in Sweden. 9 of 10 nurses in Sweden are women. The average salary in 2020 was 38 700 SEK per month.
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For a number of professions you need a Swedish authorisation before you can work in Sweden. The National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) issues Swedish authorisations and specialist certificates. For example, you must apply for authorisation if you want to work as a doctor, nurse, pharmacist, midwife, dietician, physiotherapist ...
