<b>Cohesion challenges in a multicultural team in a hospital in Saudi Arabia</b>

<p dir="ltr">The researcher opted to use a descriptive qualitative design, and the preferred data collection method was individual face-to-face interviews to explore and understand the participants’ perceptions of the cohesion challenges that their multicultural nursing team experienced. The researcher led the interviews with the open-ended question, <i>‘</i><i>What cohesion challenges does the multicultural nursing team of the cardiac centre experience, and what support should they get from management to overcome these challenges</i>?<i>’ </i>and also used probing questions that guided the participants’ responses to enable a deeper understanding of their experiences. The interviews were audio-recorded as permitted by the participants. A thematic analysis was used to analyze the data.</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr">The following six categories with subcategories emerged:- </p><ul><li>Excluded from communication due to language barriers</li><li>Differences in practical experiences lead to alienation</li><li>Nurse managers struggling to meet the new staff needs</li><li>Advantages of multi-nationality nurses rejected</li><li>Foreign nurses obliged to conform</li><li>Nurse managers struggling to promote unified teamwork</li></ul><p dir="ltr"><br></p>