It is obvious that you believe that U.S nurses are superior to the foreign nurses....hmmm I dont know maybe you should open yourself to other cultures more,travel the world,it is beautiful you will see!
W:OW!
And we are back to you putting words in my mouth.
I said patients should be able to understand and trust their nurse. When the nurse is unable to communicate well with his/her patients they appear uneducated and unprofessional. And as a patient I DESERVE a nurse I can communicate with. It's imperative for my medical well being.
I DO NOT BELIEVE AMERICAN NURSES ARE SUPERIOR TO NURSES FROM OTHER COUNTRIES.
(Did that make it easier to digest? Marinate on it awhile and see if you can absorb it)
If I went to an attorney, and his grammar was atrocious, his demeanor difficult to understand and didn't seem to want to make sure I understood him and his plan of action. I wouldn't hire him. Period.
But no one has answered my question why americans dont want to do nursing?
I don't know where you got all of your info from but can you please explain to me why there are three year waits to get into nursing programs in the U.S. if Americans "don't want to do" nursing. Do you think perhaps there are an abundance of Americans trying to get into nursing programs that is causing a three year wait at some colleges or do you really believe that every foreigner with a visa come here to take over all of the nursing programs? Really, I don't know where you get your info from.
I would never be rude to anyone because they had an accent, but, If I went to see a doctor and he had a thick accent and he was difficult to understand, I would definitely find a new doctor--even if he or she, were very good at their job, patients need to understand their clinicians! How can we expect compliance when the patients cannot understand some of these thick accents.
HR and the hiring managers need to take these things into account when hiring individuals.
During the past fifty years the United States has regularly imported nurses to ease its nurse shortages.7 Although the proportion of foreign nurses has never exceeded 5 percent of the U.S. nurse workforce, that figure is now slowly rising.
In 1995 nearly 10,000 foreign nurses received their U.S. RN licenses, representing almost 10 percent of all newly licensed RNs in that year.12 By 1998 that proportion fell by nearly half, as the number of new foreign nurses entering the U.S. workforce fell more steeply than the number of new U.S. RNs (Exhibit 1). After 1998 the foreign nurse proportion steadily grew, topping 14 percent in 2003. The growth since 2001 is particularly noteworthy because it occurred as the number of U.S.-trained RNs rose, reversing declines since 1995.
Foreign-trained nurses now account for around 5 percent of the total U.S. nursing workforce.
To address the issue with communication with patients:
It is most interesting to note that the majority of CGFNS applicants from 1978 to 2000 were educated in English, yet only 5-6 percent identify English as their primary language. This is particularly important when one considers that English as a primary language is a strong predictor of success on both the CGFNS qualifying examination and the NCLEX-RN examination and that languagle is cited most frequently by nurses and employers as the most significant challenge for international nurses working in the U.S. health care system.
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EKCPowers ---just to clarify about the time limits on blood---for all types they have to hung and running within 30 minutes and can't then hang/run for more then 4 hours. Once running beyond that 4 hours the blood is no good and needs to be stopped and wasted. That is why a nurse should not call or send someone for the blood product until she is ready to hang it. I Like to have my set up going, make sure the line is good running the saline in at a slow rate--the one set up on the second of the Y spiked tubing and VS done so it just has to be double checked when it arrives and start it right way. Sit with the patient as it first goes in to watch for a reaction and get a set of vitals 5 min after the blood reaches the patient. Then again in 15 minutes. every 15 minutes times 4, then once an hour till the 4 hours is up. And after reading your thread though I made me think how scary it is out there for people without the medical knowledge to be patients. When I was a patient for 5 days with a GI bleed twice they made mistakes I caught because I questioned and they were all americal nurses. Just rushing and not paying attention or something. I was brought PO antibiotics and told the RN I was strictly NPO including meds and asked her to check with the GI doc....she came back with IV antibiotics.....I knew that because I have cared for many GI bleed patients. Then she brought me cream of wheat to eat for my first meal and well I was on a low residue diet.....cream of WHEAT is NOT low-residue! She was like oh sorry, oops. A lay person most likely wouldn' t have known this (unless the diet was something they were already following at home for a long time) So mistakes happen enough as it is...we don't need to add to them-- Funny when I call a doc I can't understand I will be asking for their name and miss it so I ask them to spell it and I can't even understand the letters they are saying! lol
I switched MDs 2 years ago because I could not understand him. It was not even a matter of like or dislike-I never even got to this point because I could not understand a dang thing he was saying to me. Asking him to write things down...forget about it. Wasn't able to read what he wrote.
I learned sign language long ago. I was at a concert where they had a sign language interpreter. I was impressed by how beautiful it was. So I learned ASL. Use it often.
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W:OW!
And we are back to you putting words in my mouth.
I said patients should be able to understand and trust their nurse. When the nurse is unable to communicate well with his/her patients they appear uneducated and unprofessional. And as a patient I DESERVE a nurse I can communicate with. It's imperative for my medical well being.
I DO NOT BELIEVE AMERICAN NURSES ARE SUPERIOR TO NURSES FROM OTHER COUNTRIES.
(Did that make it easier to digest? Marinate on it awhile and see if you can absorb it)
If I went to an attorney, and his grammar was atrocious, his demeanor difficult to understand and didn't seem to want to make sure I understood him and his plan of action. I wouldn't hire him. Period.