Re: Emergency Nurse Relief Act 2009- Update Originally Posted by Alexk49 
Point is the majority of the foreign educated nurses are coming from third world countries where nursing out comes are poor.
That is a very xenophobic statement. I'm shocked to see you using such an argument.
Let's look at nursing education in the Philippines.
Yes, a large number of the universities here are factories.
However, there are several very high quality universities which have programs developed by US and European universities. These 4 year programs provide a higher quality of education than the remaining 70% of the schools in PH and higher than about 20% of the schools in the USA.
These are the schools which produce nurses that pass local boards on the first try and go on to pass NCLEX.
Some of these nurses become teachers and stay here, many continue on to the USA or other countries.
THESE are the nurses that you are going to see walk through the doors of your hospital with jobs.
The top of the class.
The best of the best.
When you take NCLEX in the USA then you take within a few months of graduating college.
Foreign nurses don't have that luxury.
Most are put into a cycle of delay because of the long process in getting eligibility compounded by the delay in getting the local license (local boards are only twice a year in the Philippines, once a year in most other countries). This means that the average nurse is taking NCLEX more than a year after graduating college.
According to NCSBN statistics only 40% of those people are able to pass NCLEX.
I think it is a testament to the Filipino nurse that they are slowly beating NCSBN statistics.
You judge against a foreign nurse because of poor quality schools.
Yet you fail to realize that they are having to outweigh greater odds than you to even get a chance to sit for an interview to be hired at your hospital.
Try to think more rationally and avoid xenophobia.
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