Poll results on Foreign nurses in the USA

[madwife2002, BSN, RN]

https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-polls/us-rns-what-370278-page4.html

The poll on what US nurses thought about foreign RN's ran for aprox 6 weeks and interestingly during the first 3 weeks only 50 people had voted, at that time it was almost evenly distributed between, foreign nurses being a valued member of the work force and that foreign nurses take jobs that belong to American nurses.

As the financial crisis had deepened and more new grads are graduating without jobs the differences between the too became more marked with more than 53% of the voters believing that foreign nurses take jobs which belong to American nurses with only 27% believing foreign RNs are a valued member of the nursing community. Obviously the poll was biased as it did not ask if the foreign nurses who were already in the country were considered a problem or if it was new recruits. The total number of voters by close of poll was 346 so in the final 3 weeks of the poll being opened almost 300 more people expressed their opinion making it a more viable poll. I would love to do more research on this as I find it facinating, and if I was doing a thesis at the moment it certainly would be an area worth considering.

Meanwhile retrogression is still causing many foreign nurses to not obtain visa's to come and work in this country, so at this time those who fear foreign nurses are taking their jobs, are unfounded.

Who knows what will happen in the future but here is one RN who hopes there will be enough jobs for all.