• Nursing & health sciences · Mar 2010

    Health-care system and nursing in Sri Lanka: an ethnography study.

    • Badurakada Sunil Santha De Silva and Colleen Rolls.
    • School of Nursing and Midwifery, Melbourne Campus, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. bsunilsilva@yahoo.co.uk
    • Nurs Health Sci. 2010 Mar 1; 12 (1): 33-8.

    AbstractThis article stems from a larger ethnographic study that primarily explored nurses' cancer pain management in Sri Lanka. The findings presented in this article report on two aspects revealed in that study: the Sri Lankan health-care system and nursing. The findings indicate that the Sri Lankan health-care system is under considerable strain. Poor hospital management allows doctors to admit too many patients, resulting in chaotic and overcrowded work environments with unsustainable resources. This then impacts on the role of the nurse. This study highlights the adverse conditions under which nurses in Sri Lanka try to administer care, within a powerless and unchanging professional situation. Although this study extends the level of understanding of the situation for nurses in a government hospital, it also offers directions for policy-makers and international nursing organizations to improve nursing education and governance in Sri Lanka.

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