Employment conditions, collaborative teamwork and patient safety culture as factors influencing integration of foreign-trained nurses

Employment conditions, collaborative teamwork and patient safety culture as factors influencing integration of foreign-trained nurses - Nurse Migration

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00017465

Enrollment

200

Registered

2019-06-27

Start date

2019-08-22

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-04-07

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Conditions

Integration / MigrationCollaborative TeamworkEmployment conditions/Patient safety

Interventions

Group 1: Foreign-trained nurses will be asked once to take part in a written Survey regarding work conditions, Teamwork and Patient safety. Part of the questionnaire will be the German Version of the

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Foreign-trained nurses - Being over the age of 18 - have obtained a recognised qualification in nursing in another country and are working as a nurse in the receiving country - or as nurses who have obtained a recognised qualification in nursing in another country but have not yet obtained a (full) registration to practice in the receiving country - Having a contract with either the University Hospital Heidelberg or the Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg - Content to participate - Written and spoken German and/or English language skills Host nurses - Being over the age of 18 - Having obtained a recognised qualification in nursing in Germany or having obtained a recognised qualification in nursing another country but have been working as nurse in the German healthcare sector for more than five years - Having a contract with either the University Hospital Heidelberg or the Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg - Content to participate - Written and spoken German and/or English language skills

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: - Foreign-trained nurses who did not content to participate or who are not able to content to participate - Foreign-trained nurses who do not fulfil the inclusion specific criteria - Foreign-trained nurses who have been recruited before the 01.01.2017 - Student nurses - Nurses who did not content to participate or who are not able to content to participate - Nurses who do not fulfil the inclusion specific criteria

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
What will be used: Questionnaire measuring Patient safety, collaborative teamwork, employment conditions (SCORE) When: Once, at the beginning of data Collection How: Anonymous Survey	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
WHAT will be used: Interview Guideline with questions regarding perceptions related to integration WHEN: Once, during Phase of data Collection HOW: Semi-structured face to face interviews, tape-recorded	—

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactCatharina Roth

Universitätsklinikum HeidelbergAbteilung Allgemeinmedizin und Versorgungsforschung

catharina.roth@med.uni-heidelberg.de+49 6221 56-1972

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 22, 2026