Migration of health professionals

Nurses are leaving the work as Community nurse and are either leaving Romania or try to find more secure and attractive positions in hospitals or in private practices/clinics of Family Doctors and Specialists.

A first step for an ‘integrated’ discussion about professionalization and the problem of labour migration of nurses was done with the Workshop about labour migration of nurses in the framework of the End-of-Phase 1 event of the project 29 March 2008. SRC/FSM made possible through this workshop that nurses working in Italy and Spain, nurses considering leaving Romania and those who came back from abroad could discuss the different aspects of labour migration and how to prevent the drain of Nurses from Romania.

The event ‘Here and There – Exhibition and Film Festival” organised by the project between 27-29 March in order to raise awareness about the social and health consequences of labour migration included this Workshop about Migration of Nurses. Features and interviews in the Romanian TV and Radio about the event reached Awareness beyond the region of the two counties. Additionally through Articles in a National Romanian journal and a National journal in the Republic of Moldova visibility on National and ‘cross-border’ level was attained.