Is the hiring freeze/retrogression of foreign RNs over?

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I got surprised, an old acquaintance of mine sent me pictures (of their hospital orientation and their hospital ID badges showing they are RNs in that particular hospital). They flew in from the Philippines to the US less than two weeks ago to work in a big South Texas Hospital, although I didn't get additional info how they were hired and how their docs were processed. But I was wondering, are they hiring RNs from different countries again?

Sir/Mam

When you Graduate a nursing degree in the Philippines. Its already BSN. We go to nursing school for 5 years. we dont have short cut program like here in the US. We dont even have a LPN/CNA/LVN program in the Philippines. Dont assume that she is not qualified.

And a lot of Canadian provinces don't recognize Phillipino BSNs as having the same educational level as local graduates. I've heard that some states are really starting to evaluate the degrees as well due to inconsistencies in the quality of nurse graduates.

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