Survey: Should nurses from other countries be recruited to aid in the nursing shortag

I see a contradiction here. Everybody is always complaining that they are overworked and need more help ...

Yet, 80 percent of the people here say don't hire foreign nurses which, obviously, would help ...

Then you hear the standard: "If you improved working conditions people would return to the job ..." line.

But, wouldn't hiring foreign nurses also improve working conditions, i.e. ratios?

The new laws go into effect next month.

As always, thanks suzanne. I did not know that the new requirements hadn't gone into effect yet. That certainly explains all of these posts where people have been complaining about English proficiency.

Hopefully, the new laws will help address that problem. Question: Do you know if the marriage exemption that you previously mentioned would also apply under these new laws?

Here in the Philippines, the government is not spending any single cent for our nursing education!

With the number of ex-pat Fillipina nurses working in Australia and elsewhere, supply within your country must be diminishing. Do the Phillipine public know that there is a nursing drain from the Phillipines?

I have known several nurses who passed english tests. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean they can actually function in healthcare with their level of fluency.

Really tho rerading & writing english are still very separate from a clear understandable voice