Immigration: More Foreign Nurses Needed?

This country used to be great and invited people to come here for a new life!

Foriegn Nursing School is NOT in the bussines of Nurse exportation. For you to say that is ludicrous. Every educational Institution establishes career and profession to those who are willing to attain them. It is for the graduate to decide the distination he wants to be. Are you then saying that foriegn medical school are in the business of physician exportation? That is absolutely absurd! It is the country who demands nurses and doctors that attracts these professionals domestic and foriegn.

"Exporting of Education in Nursing. Despite international differences in nursing education and practice, a number of mechanisms allow nurses to migrate throughout the world. In some source countries, there is a deliberate policy of educating nurses for export. This investment in human resources can result in generous remittances to the home country. A strategic method of profiting from "surplus human resources" is to prepare migrants to find jobs abroad and contribute to the economy of their home country through remittances to family members. In developing countries, educated but underutilized workers are among the first to migrate when opportunities become available to them (Abella, 1997; Baumann, Blythe, Rheaume, & McKintosh, 2006; Blythe & Baumann, 2008).

In the 1950s, the Philippines began to prepare nurses for export, mainly to the US (Brush & Solchalski, 2007; Choy, 2004). Educated in English with American-based curricula, Filipino nurses have migrated to the Middle East and throughout the developed world. The Philippines Overseas Employment Administration has reported that nearly 88,000 nurses left the Philippines between 1992 and 2003, but this may be an underestimate (Perrin, Hagopian, Sales, & Haung, 2007). According to one source, the number of nursing schools in the Philippines has "increased from 170 in 1999 to 470 by 2005" (Alvez Tan, 2006, slide 4).

Following the example of the Philippines, the Indian government also supports the export of nurses (Healey, 2006, Thomas, 2006). The importance of this nurse export business is reflected in the rapid growth of nursing schools in India (Thomas, 2006). Many groups profit from this nurse migration. Khadria (2007, p. 1433) describes this process in India as "business process outsourcing." It includes a comprehensive training-cum-recruitment-cum placement for popular destinations like the United Kingdom (UK) and the US through a proliferating agency system. China and Korea are beginning to follow a similar path (Fang, 2007). The large population and growing tertiary education markets will facilitate this production of nurses for export."

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/576193_3

It doesn't mean that because they're educating more nurses that they are using thier colleges and university as a factory to produce nurses world wide. And in what form would this institution profit? Students apply to the program in their own recognisance for many reasons. And these reasons includes, economic freedom, broader knowledge of the profession, educational advancement, etc.

Nursing is a "cash cow" in this country. I don't know how many nursing students (RN) graduate from a program and don't know how to place a bedpan or shave a male pt. I asked a 3rd semester pt to take Mrs. SONSO to the BSC(she had a lt hip fx). I told her she'd have to pivot to transfer...the 3rd semester student looked at me and said??? I don't understand? We learned this stuff in kindergarten nursing back in the old days.

Thousands of Nursing students in America do not pass boards the first time, second time, third time....there are companies that make loads of money helping this students. Its not just foreign educated nurses

I recommend to most of my students not to take a review course, and so far 99% have passed. The sad thing many of these foreign poor students are never eligible to take the NCLEX. In the US if a school had a 50% fail rate it would be closed.

Anyway this is getting off topic, Is there a need for new foreign nurses to immigrate, I say not until the US economy straightens out and the colleges fund faculty positions.

Sorry, still don't need you.

Foreign nurses need to stay put in their own countries and not come here to take up space that American traines nurse need.

I declined a tech position,at the hospital where my mom works because of the fact it had foreign nurses who happen to be from the Philippines...