US lawmakers are not first in the line among well-wishers for immigrants

[rusiba]

dear suzanne,

thanks a lot for your assistance and support,

could i ask you: it seems that us lawmakers are not first in the line among well-wishers for immigrants, i hope the situation with foreign nurses will not become even worse.

i know that the future of cir and nursing retrogression unpredictable, however:

1. could you describe the poor scenario if there will be no any congress actions toward immigration. how long should we wait from pd- 5 years or more?

2. if i-140 has already approved, does it mean that the congress or senate still able to cancel or delay an immigration process? in other words, does the process irreversible or not?

suzanne, please understand that my questions is not complex of fears and doubts, i have to planning my future and seek other options in case of us immigration process will be retrogressed, so your answers are critical for me and for my friends.

many thanks!

[Tanvi Tusti]

If skills do not quickly get up to where they need to be, they are released from the job.

Nice way of saying they are fired I guess. Seems a harsh way of dealing with things to me. Where I have worked, nurses whose skills are lacking are helped in whatever way they can be, they are not fired. Dont they offer things like clinical skills updates, refresher courses, mentorship etc? You'd have to do something pretty dire (and by this I mean gross professional misconduct) to get fired as a nurse both here in Oz and the UK.

[suzanne4, RN]

Nice way of saying they are fired I guess. Seems a harsh way of dealing with things to me. Where I have worked, nurses whose skills are lacking are helped in whatever way they can be, they are not fired. Dont they offer things like clinical skills updates, refresher courses, mentorship etc? You'd have to do something pretty dire (and by this I mean gross professional misconduct) to get fired as a nurse both here in Oz and the UK.

Of course they have the education offered, but there are those now that have gone thru an RN program that have not had any clinical training. There have been hospitals that have given them a year of training and paying them an RN salary at that same time. But they are shying away from doing that. In many facilities now, you have 90 days for them to see how you will fit in with the rest of the staff, and to check out the nurse's skills. There are some that have not been able to get thru the mentoring, etc.

And this has only been coming up the past year or two due to some of the schools now out there where the clinical skills are severely lacking or never even taught. And I did not say all, just some.