Posted on 01/25/2022 5:34:13 PM PST by qaz123
U.S. hospitals and staffing companies are extracting roughly 1,000 nurses each month from poor countries instead of recruiting and training Americans for the nursing jobs, say media reports.
The New York Times newspaper described the extraction migration process on January 24:
About 1,000 nurses are arriving in the United States each month from African nations, the Philippines and the Caribbean, said Sinead Carbery, president of O’Grady Peyton International, an international recruiting firm. While the United States has long drawn nurses from abroad, she said demand from American health care facilities is the highest she’s seen in three decades. There are an estimated 10,000 foreign nurses with U.S. job offers on waiting lists for interviews at American embassies around the world for the required visas.
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This is going to end I’ll sing just like the H1B-visa folks from India taking jobs from American IT workers.
Only it won’t be some guy working in your companies IT department, trying to walk you through some computer issue.
And 535 clowns in Congress do not care. Gotta cash those checks from all the hospital corporations.
How are they getting them here? They have limited H1Bs and it’s only once a year.
This is exactly what Obama did. They were signed for a certain period, brought over and then the period was renewed. I believe they worked for less than U.S. nurses.
I know because I am an RN and this happened on my watch.
The US has brought in medical staff from Ireland, S Korea and the Philippines for decades. Our schools cannot supply enough plus not many can qualify.
All part of the plan.
Something tells me this is a bit different.
Purge the healthcare system with shot mandates. Backfill these positions with folks that will work for much less.
Maybe. Maybe not. Time will tell.
My daughter is a counselor at a state mental hospital.
She tells me most of the nurses are from Africa and speak little English. Obviously the patients can’t understand a word they say so therapies are lagging.
Add to that, these imports are moving into administration and are only hiring their own.
Probably using the national emergency to skirt around those troublesome hurdles.
“...push out well paid, American nurses and replace them with low paid foreigners?”
Absolutely incorrect.
Wages for RNs are rising quickly precisely because Americans either don’t want to become an RN, or the nursing schools are artificially restricting the number of nursing students. Maybe both.
My wife is a Filipino RN/BSN here in Oregon. She works in a hospital. The shortage of RNs for staffing in the USA is CRITICAL. RNs are overworked and are burning out and quitting.
And regarding English competency, English is taught in Philippine schools. The college BSN programs are all taught in English and the books are all in English.
I can’t speak for other nations, but the Philippines produces outstanding RNs.
I’m not sure...but I think I had read the “imports” were paid the same?? In any case it’s a shame.
Something is off if a 1st world country cannot source its high skilled labor needs and must draw from anywhere much less what is often 3rd world sources.
Bet medical mistakes will soon be killing even more Americans...
Of course.🙄
Nepotism and tribalism locks out American workers in many industries. I have watched in furniture manufacturing here in the US since 1980’s…. Se habla espanol…..
And how much of that is from those leaving or being forced out due to covid?
Where were you born and raised?
Where have you and your wife lived for the past few years?
Are you an ex-pat, possibly former military, that was stationed in the Philippines at one time?
I don’t think anything is “off”. But you do make a great point.
They did it with the IT field. They’re gonna do it with this.
Some have said they’re getting paid well. Good for them. I find it hard to believe that a nurse from Kenya is going to be offered the same money as the nurse born and bred in the US.
These hospitals are run by corporations. Corporations want profit. The one thing they can control is how much the payroll is.
The foreigners work much cheaper and have absolutely no recourse in the political system.
That is why they are imported.
And I am just going to say what my experience had been..with many Philippine Nurses...
Not up to standards..and rude.
That's been my experience for over 20 years...
Take my opinion...or leave it.
Wrong on all counts.
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