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Give a positive feedback regarding this two comments related to this question: Many resources are spent on recruiting foreign nurses. It is a fast-growing private sector business. If the United States and other industrial nations put their resources into fixing the problems that lead to this shortage of nurses, would the need to recruit foreign nurses decrease? Why or why not?
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#1:Idalmi: As a result of the coronavirus epidemic, is true that several hospitals in the United States are trying to employ healthcare personnel from other countries. Nurses are in low supply in American hospitals, since many professionals have quit or retired due to the pandemic’s exhaustion. Meanwhile, coronavirus infections are on the rise in the United States, placing the country’s health-care system under severe strain.Many people in this community are unemployed or under-resourced, and rely on the high cost of education or school hours, which makes it impossible for them to study. If the United States and other industrialized nations put their resources into solving the problems that lead to this nursing shortage, it would, in my opinion, reduce the need to hire foreign nurses. If these folks had access to government resources, I believe they would have better financing options and more flexible school schedules for those who wished to learn. Foreign nurses can bring a variety of cultural perspectives, cultural fusion, and familiarity with patients from various cultures, religions, or backgrounds, but increasing the number of scholarships available through the Disadvantaged Student Scholarship Program, and Financial Aid which provides scholarships and monetary assistant to students from low-income and disadvantaged backgrounds who are enrolled in medical and nursing programs, would be a good option to have more employees from our population, as Individual nurses have the freedom to move, however ICN understands that international migration may have a negative impact on health care quality.
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#2: Cristian: Recruitment of nurses by industrialized nations from developing countries has been a common practice for a while now. If the United States would put their resources into fixing the problems that lead to this shortage of nurses, I believe that the need to recruit foreign nurses would not decrease. According to Delucas (2014), it is often more cost-effective for industrialized countries to recruit from developing countries; and because of that, the depletion of source country resources has created a global healthcare crisis. Destination countries are being challenged on the ethical implications of aggressive recruitment and their lack of developing a sustainable self-sufficient domestic workforce.
Nursing continues to be the largest and fastest-growing health care profession in the United States. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2019), in 2018 the RN workforce stood at 3.1 million, that number is projected to rise to 3.4 million by 2028 . Yet experts also predict that there will be more than 1 million nursing vacancies by 2024. So, the rule of supply and demand will manifest in the form of more foreign nurses will be needed.
Noted by Buerhaus et al. (2014), in their analysis that the number of nurses annually obtaining associate or bachelor’s degrees in the United States more than doubled over a 10-year period, from 74,000 in 2002 to 184,000 in 2012. This is a good sign that we are working towards educating and prepare more nurses domestically, but still not enough to offset the 1 million vacancies mentioned above.
References:
Buerhaus, et al. (2014) The rapid growth of graduates from associate, baccalaureate, and graduate programs in nursing. Nurs Econ; 32(6):290–5, 311.
Bureau of Labor Statistics. Registered nurses. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Labor; 2019. Occupational outlook handbook; https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/registered-nurs… (Links to an external site.).
Delucas, A. C. (2014). Foreign nurse recruitment: Global risk. Nursing ethics, 21(1), 76-85.
Shaffer, F. A., Bakhshi, M. A., Farrell, N., & Álvarez, T. D. (2020). CE: original research: the recruitment experience of foreign-educated health professionals to the United States. AJN The American Journal of Nursing, 120(1), 28-38.
