Urge Congress to Support HR 5924: Legislation to Address Nursing Shortage
Bill will provide visas for properly qualified RNs
While the shortage of nursing and healthcare workers persists, a visa shortage has compounded the impact of the workforce shortage by limiting the ability of American hospitals to hire foreign nursing professionals.
The Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act, (H.R. 5924), will help alleviate the nursing shortage by providing visas for properly qualified registered nurses to work in the U.S.
Take action now and urge your Representative in Congress to support H.R. 5924 and help alleviate the nursing workforce shortage.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that jobs for registered nurses will grow 23 percent by 2008. That's faster than the average for all other occupations. About half of the RN workforce will reach retirement age in the next 15 years. The average age of new graduates is 31. They are entering the profession at an older age and will have fewer years to work than nurses traditionally have had. Click here to read more about the nursing shortage.
The U.S. has a waiting list for employment-based visas for internationally-educated nurses. In response, H.R. 5924 would: (1) set aside 20,000 employment-based visas in each of the next three years for foreign-educated registered nurses and physical therapists; (2) provide funds to help U.S. nursing schools expand the domestic supply of nurses; and (3) establish a three-year pilot program aimed at keeping U.S. nurses in the workforce.
... I learned that word well before I began my FNP program using that "online thing"... You want to say it is national pride then go ahead. I think it is arrogance.
I did not realize that there was an online program to go from ASN to FNP.
Maybe you would care to elaborate on that for the benefit of others. Patriotism is neither ethnocentric, incidentally.
Since you fail to comprehend any difference between nurses trained in American universities as opposed to any other nurses, there is no point in taking this discussion any further with me as we are at an impasse.
I have wrote many papers using systematic reviews and do not intend to do so here. Keep watching and God bless all nurses, especially American nurses and their teachers.
Specializes in ER and family advanced nursing practice.
I did not realize that there was an online program to go from ASN to FNP.
Maybe you would care to elaborate on that for the benefit of others.
Yes there are several. Search this website. There is good info in several forums. If you go to "Distance Learning" or "Graduate Nursing" in the "Students" section here there is a lot of really good information on distance courses. Also under "Specialty"-> "Advanced Practice Nursing". In fact, I am told that a good one is University of Southern Indiana (not sure if they have a direct ADN to MSN, or if you have to go ADN to BSN, then BSN to MSN).
There is no point taking this discussion any further with me as we are at an impasse.
Help me to understand why I want to lobby Congress (or any legislative body) so that they will make it easier for people from other countries to compete with me for jobs that they are willing to earn less for? There is no nursing shortage - anyone who's bought into that idea has their head up .... well you know! There is a shortage of nurses who are willing to work for the pathetic level of compensation being parceled out by "health care" companies who are resistant to safe staffing levels because of costs.
If nurses would get their act together, we would recognize the enormous political power we potentially could wield. Nurses talk about being a profession - well folks, we're not. Not as long as we remain on the cost side of the income statement and we are willing to work for the wages many people are earning.
How is it that docs are able to earn $350-400k per year in the same locations where nurses make $40? They don't lobby their congressman asking to make it easy for anesthesiologists from the Philippines or Honduras practice in the US!
Sorry about the rant, but this issue really gets me irked!
There is no nursing shortage - anyone who's bought into that idea has their head up .... well you know! There is a shortage of nurses who are willing to work for the pathetic level of compensation being parceled out by "health care" companies who are resistant to safe staffing levels because of costs.
If nurses would get their act together, we would recognize the enormous political power we potentially could wield. Nurses talk about being a profession - well folks, we're not. Not as long as we remain on the cost side of the income statement and we are willing to work for the wages many people are earning.
How is it that docs are able to earn $350-400k per year in the same locations where nurses make $40? They don't lobby their congressman asking to make it easy for anesthesiologists from the Philippines or Honduras practice in the US!
Sorry about the rant, but this issue really gets me irked!
I am SO with you on this! I have nothing against foreign nurses in the market place, but I think they should pass American-standards tests.
In conjunction with this, we NEED to exert pressure to improve staffing ratios, conditions and pay! I mean, Americans are dying for jobs now. Why doesn't anyone want to be a nurse? Everyone reading this knows why!
Uh, what are you talking about? Take a gander at any nursing school you care to name and tell me that nobody wants to become nurses.
The local hospital in my town just laid off a number of nurses, the huge regional university hospital has a hiring freeze, and the giant HMO just canceled their new-grad program. No shortage within a 100-mile radius of my location.
HoosierMale
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I did not realize that there was an online program to go from ASN to FNP.
Maybe you would care to elaborate on that for the benefit of others. Patriotism is neither ethnocentric, incidentally.
Since you fail to comprehend any difference between nurses trained in American universities as opposed to any other nurses, there is no point in taking this discussion any further with me as we are at an impasse.
I have wrote many papers using systematic reviews and do not intend to do so here. Keep watching and God bless all nurses, especially American nurses and their teachers.