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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Here in Florida we get a lot of W. Indians and Jamaicans
And?
The nursing shortage existed long before COVID - it’s just much worse now, and the RNs are currently being overworked to the point of burning out and quitting or retiring early.
I was born and raised in Oregon.
My wife and I have lived in Oregon for the past five years.
I am neither an expat nor am I former military.
Subtitled - how to take a once trusted and respected proffession and utterly destroy it’s reputation and credibility.
I’m not mad at ya. Not trying to pick a fight
But I will say that previous comments it seems like you’re making it out like your wife is the same as some nurse from Kenya.
As you stated, she was educated in a first rate educational environment. Not Africa. Ok. I’ve dealt with the latter, while working in Iraq and it’s not the same.
No worries.
I don’t know anything about foreign RN other than from the Philippines.
That’s about as succinct as one can get.
Any place will do as long as those being imported aren't white.
Me too. Wife is also a Filipina RN/BSN working in Oregon.
(Answering the other questions)
* I’ve never lived outside the US, and wasn’t in the military.
* Wife is CERTAINLY not rude, nor subpar. Her managers aren’t Filipinas, and aren’t “only hiring their kind”.
* Wife speaks VERY good English, as it’s been taught since elementary school, and her nursing school taught EXCLUSIVELY in English.
* The NCLEX exam that you have to pass is NO JOKE. You’re not getting idiots, nor unqualified candidates that have passed it.
* The CGFNS credential evaluation service verifies that you came from a accredited school
* Some of the travel nurse positions are offering to pay $6k a week for 4 12 hour shifts. That’s how bad the staffing is nationwide. $125 an hour.
Been on hiring committees (not in health care) where such considerations were openly discussed as part of staffing plans. Heard the comments of relatives who were doctors and nurses. They have since retired and said to hell with it.
Talked with my Congressman once about it. He pretended he had never heard of the problem.
Yeah, I am convinced that it is a real thing, deliberately importing a third-world indentured servant workforce. A long career leads me to that conclusion.
and your experience is...?
I have a niece who is a (Very Liberal) RN in Washington State. There is a rather large community of nurses there who are from Ghana. They helped her to marry one of their friends, a guy from a Ghana named Mohammed. He stayed with her the required 5 years. She didn’t seem to mind when it was over and I’m wondering if she got paid to help him be a citizen.
She said that in Ghana he was a banker and had a driver to take him back-and-forth to work. But here he had to learn to be a maintenance guy. Not a nurse. While they were married he made trips to Africa “to see his mother” but she never went with him.
It’s horrible that the US is strip mining foreign countries of their medical personnel.
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