Hello. I'm a second term nursing student, and I am truly upset.
I don't understand how a hospital can layoff or turn down applicants for nursing jobs and then bring in nurses from other countries who have never been trained in the United States to be nurses!!!
All countries are different and the code of nursing seems to change w/the country. Many are not even held to the same standard of nursing that we in America are held to, so how in the world can they legitimately be nurses here in the United States? Don't they even have to take a test?
Please, someone clarify this for me, and let me know if I'm the only one upset by this. Will this change the standard of nursing that has been set in America?
I come from the auto industry and I can see how outsourcing (sending work overseas) is ruining our country, i.e., shoddy work, less American jobs, etc. So won't our citizens health be compromised by bringing foreign nurses here (reverse out sourcing)?