Question

development of nursing in India and abroad assignment​

Answer 1

Answer:

India has been facing a severe shortage of domestic nurses. There is an estimated shortfall

of 2.4 million nurses in India. The shortage is partly explained by international migration

of Indian nurses. It is reported that more than 640,000 Indian nurses are working abroad.

From a policy perspective, it is important to understand how the situation evolved and to

identify factors that influence the intention of international migration among nurses. This

paper examines the relationship between nurses’ intentions to migrate and their

characteristics based on our survey data from Tamil Nadu, which is located in South India

where nursing education is active. Around 18% of sample nurses have an intention to

migrate overseas. Most of them are nurses working in private hospitals. Because of the

gap in salaries between public medical facilities and private hospitals, nurses in private

hospitals have incentives to go abroad for higher wages. Nurses who are young, single

and belong to SC caste group also have intentions to migrate. In order to mitigate the

shortage of domestic nurses, the government’s policy intervention, such as the

introduction of a scheme that raises the wage level of nurses in private hospitals, is

absolutely necessary.