P-77 Nursing Personnel Migration at the NARH: Cause, Effect, and Remedy
Author(s):
T Ross, B Ramjattan , V Sawh
Year of Presentation:
2025
Objective: The researchers looked at Push Factors of Migration: People, circumstances, or events that drive people
to leave a place (StudySmarter, 2019) and Pull Factors of
Migration: the attractive factors that motivate immigrants to
a location. (Parkins, 2010).
Methods: We utilized convenient sampling with a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. A sample of 256 nursing personnel was used including nursing assistants, registered nurses, registered midwives, emergencytrained nurses, anesthetic nurses, patient care assistants, and NICU nurses.
Results: The findings suggested that Job opportunities and better wages (92.2%) were the greatest pull factor for migration, while the major push factors were the increasing workload on nurses and nurses’ burnout (90.3%). Moreover, nursing personnel believe that migration will affect the quality of healthcare meted out to the populace was also affected by migration. Almost one half of the participants (42.8%) stated that the greatest impact migration would have on healthcare was the long waiting time. Almost onethird (32.4.7%) said that this has affected nurse-client relationship while the remainder stated that the situation can lead to medication errors (16.2%) and poor patient compliance (8.6%.).
Conclusion: The issue of migration affects every country; however, third-world and developing countries like Guyana often have to deal with these challenges. Post-completion of this research, Sometime after this research project was completed the Government of Guyana had announced significant salary increases, incentive and increments for nurses. It would be essential for a follow up study to be done to assess the impact of these announcements.