The experience of nurses working within a voluntary network: a qualitative study of health care for undocumented migrants.
OBJECTIVE
To illuminate the experience of nurses providing health care to undocumented migrants in a voluntary network.


METHODS
In a qualitative study, semistructured interviews were conducted with RNs regarding their experience of providing health care to undocumented migrants within a voluntary network. The interview transcripts were analysed using the inductive method of content analysis.


RESULTS
Three main categories emerged - structural inadequacy, ethical dilemmas and challenges, and personal impact and insights. The informants were driven by a strong ethical approach and a great sense of responsibility as human beings and as nurses.


CONCLUSIONS
Engaging with the voluntary network allowed the informants to cope with their frustration and feelings of inadequacy which emerged when confronted with institutionalised injustice in the conventional healthcare system.
Department of Care Science, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.
Maria
M
Sandblom
Department of Care Science, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.
Elisabeth
E
Mangrio
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D013548:Sweden; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014838:Volunteers
dilemmas; ethics; meaning; migrants; undocumented migrants; voluntary work