Nursing shortages, Baby boomers and the immigrant nurse Part 2

I wonder how many hospitals actively recruit nurses from outside the country, and I wonder if they get paid the same amount? Does anyone know?

We need to be careful how we judge here. Since immigration is such a hot topic, we are all a bit on edge.

"Foreign nurses" are those that are not citizens AND trained abroad AND do not posses a green card. I think some are confusing a green card holder as that of a foreign nurse.

The migration of nurses started to increase exponentially when the nursing shortage began. We only minded when the job opportunities recently became scarce.

Most of these nurses do not get paid less, but had a heck of a time trying to get into a nursing school in their own country. It is an honor for most of them to be her and they make a considerable amount more her then in their own country, ie: the Philippines

Our government is concerned with the amount of money they are sending back home (sometime in excess of 50% of their income) which takes the money our of our economy and puts it back into their.

On the flip side, nurses that come from Ireland, England, Australia, and even the Philippines are almost always bachelor's prepared and employers who can be choosey are picking them over ADN grads. International Council of Nurses (ICN)

However, although I am not a firm supporter of Obama, he did say "The notion that we would have to import nurses makes absolutely no sense," at a health care summit in March. "There are a lot of people [in the U.S.] who would love to be in that helping profession, and yet we just aren't providing the resources to get them trained--that's something we've got to fix." He added $100 million to the stimulus package to increase nurse educator training.