The Paradox of Workforce Self‐Sufficiency: Policy Narratives, Professional Identity and Internationally Educated Nurses in the United Kingdom
Joshua Chidiebere Nwambo, Oladayo Bifarin, Karen Higginbotham · 2026
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Britain's health service leans on nurses trained abroad, yet its long-term plan promises to need them less. Joshua Nwambo, Oladayo Bifarin, and Karen Higginbotham study that tension in 2026 and call it a paradox of self-sufficiency. The plan casts overseas hiring as key now, but as a stopgap to be phased out as home training grows.
The team read eight policy texts with a method that asks how each text frames the problem, and they pooled themes from seventeen studies of nurse experience. A lens on group identity and on a sense of secure place shapes the read. Policy leaves migrant nurses unsure of their long-term spot, and past work shows their prior skill often needs formal proof before it counts. The study asks what that doubt costs.
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| CREATOR | Joshua Chidiebere Nwambo, Oladayo Bifarin, Karen Higginbotham |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 74 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |