US needs foreign-trained healthcare workers

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:monkeydance:The Wall Street Journal, one of America's leading newspapers, has just published an editorial imploring Congress to free up visas for healthcare workers who are trained overseas.

http://www.hammondlawfirm.com/wsj91207.pdf

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:monkeydance:The Wall Street Journal, one of America's leading newspapers, has just published an editorial imploring Congress to free up visas for healthcare workers who are trained overseas.

http://www.hammondlawfirm.com/wsj91207.pdf

Many old nurses will start to retire, sooner or later Filipino, Chinese, Indian Nurses will take over, specially these graduates are young, even if they wont be able to come to the US bec. of the retrogression, they have all the time in the world, because they are very young compared to the average age of the nurses in the US.

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The US does not need to import nurses and deprive other countries of their own intellectual talent. What the US needs to do is better the pay and working conditions and look at nursing as a skilled service rather than simply rolling it up in the room rate for billing.

As is often stated, there are some 500,000 licensed nurses in the US who are not presently working. The market needs to respond in order to entice these people back into the game.

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:monkeydance:The Wall Street Journal, one of America's leading newspapers, has just published an editorial imploring Congress to free up visas for healthcare workers who are trained overseas.

http://www.hammondlawfirm.com/wsj91207.pdf

There is also a study that shows foreign workers are needed for long term care of the elderly :

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the longterm care workforce will grow from 2.8 million to 3.7 million workers between 2004 and 2014. After large numbers of baby boomers start to turn 85 around 2030, employment of direct-care workers will grow to about 6 million in 2050.

http://www.ailf.org/ipc/infocus/infocus_0708.pdf

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The US does not need to import nurses and deprive other countries of their own intellectual talent. What the US needs to do is better the pay and working conditions and look at nursing as a skilled service rather than simply rolling it up in the room rate for billing.

As is often stated, there are some 500,000 licensed nurses in the US who are not presently working. The market needs to respond in order to entice these people back into the game.

However, WSJ Editorial heads; DIAGNOSIS: CRITICAL.

Then, Patients deserve some immediate solutions!

Both long term and short term.

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The US does not need to import nurses and deprive other countries of their own intellectual talent. What the US needs to do is better the pay and working conditions and look at nursing as a skilled service rather than simply rolling it up in the room rate for billing.

As is often stated, there are some 500,000 licensed nurses in the US who are not presently working. The market needs to respond in order to entice these people back into the game.

It is the same as here in the UK once nurses go out of the profession they are very hard to get back. In many cases it is not the money it is the conditions that put them off. Young people in the UK see nursing as un glamourous and find more money and better conditions in other jobs. Nursing is a vocation and it needs a special type to succeed and this type of person is becoming less and less . Also nursing has become a global commodity with more and more nurses looking to experiance nursing in other countries
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It is the same as here in the UK once nurses go out of the profession they are very hard to get back. In many cases it is not the money it is the conditions that put them off. Young people in the UK see nursing as un glamourous and find more money and better conditions in other jobs. Nursing is a vocation and it needs a special type to succeed and this type of person is becoming less and less . Also nursing has become a global commodity with more and more nurses looking to experiance nursing in other countries

I agree. If the US hope to get the former nurses back, then it is aiming at the wrong solution. Former nurses just don't like the job and it's not all about the money. Even if you pay them higher, you can't make them return to their old job. Right now, they maybe enjoying their life with whatever they are doing now. Maybe just a few will be back but still not enough to fill in the need for nurses.

I believe that others are just using this as justification to increase the nurse's salary. These people are just greedy. They don't realize that increasing their salary also put the lives of people at risk. The salary of nurses is capped by the current pension and insurance being received by retirees. Increasing the salary of nurses more than what the retirees can afford is putting their lives at risk as well. The law of supply and demand cannot just work without the economic cap.

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I agree. If the US hope to get the former nurses back, then it is aiming at the wrong solution. Former nurses just don't like the job and it's not all about the money. Even if you pay them higher, you can't make them return to their old job. Right now, they maybe enjoying their life with whatever they are doing now. Maybe just a few will be back but still not enough to fill in the need for nurses.

I believe that others are just using this as justification to increase the nurse's salary. These people are just greedy. They don't realize that increasing their salary also put the lives of people at risk. The salary of nurses is capped by the current pension and insurance being received by retirees. Increasing the salary of nurses more than what the retirees can afford is putting their lives at risk as well. The law of supply and demand cannot just work without the economic cap.

:yeah:

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The US does not need to import nurses and deprive other countries of their own intellectual talent. What the US needs to do is better the pay and working conditions and look at nursing as a skilled service rather than simply rolling it up in the room rate for billing.

As is often stated, there are some 500,000 licensed nurses in the US who are not presently working. The market needs to respond in order to entice these people back into the game.

Maybe those 500,OOO licensed nurses are so understaffed at their workplace, and they cannot keep-up with the frequent "overtimes", thats why they are not presently working, and having second thoughts on their careers, maybe most of them are also "baby-boomers". :roll

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Maybe those 500,OOO licensed nurses are so understaffed at their workplace, and they cannot keep-up with the frequent "overtimes", thats why they are not presently working, and having second thoughts on their careers, maybe most of them are also "baby-boomers". :roll
Most will have left because they did not want to nurse anymore why would they want to come back
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Shortages are in the nursing home arena for the most part, and the reason for the shortages is that the work conditions are horrible for nurses in the first place. Having 30 to 60 patients that you are legally responsible for is the best way to lose a license, and this does happen in nursing homes and we are seeing more of it. And if you lose a license, then you lose the Visa Screen Certificate, and that means that you are subject to being deported.

If things were so good there, there would not be the shortages. Think about that.

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why do americans hate to work as a nurse? and why do asians love to work as a nurse?

If your an Employer, which would you prefer, an american nurse or an Asian nurse? hmmm...

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