What are the main points you would like to stress to your staff concerning the integration of the Chinese nurses into the aged care workforce?
You are a Unit Manager in a Residential Care facility. Six Chinese nurses, enrolled in the Certificate III Aged Care program, will be arriving for a clinical placement. They have been in Melbourne for 3 months. You would like your staff to make them feel welcome and you are using a one-to-one buddy system where a nurse who has worked in the facility for a few years will team up with one of the Chinese nurses.
What will be an ideal response?
The difficulty of adjusting to a different language and a different culture—what might be termed ‘culture shock'. Leaving home and all the familiar people and things will create stressful situations. Some of the differences between life at home and in Australasia are likely to be: culture, language, climate, food, educational systems, working conditions and the absence of family and friends and a familiar environment.
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