Seventeen percent of US nurses were foreign-educated.
But immigration proposals to eliminate per-country employment-based visas would make it virtually impossible for foreign nurses to emigrate to the US and treat patients. We need more nurses—not fewer.
By why does healthcare staffing matter to your family? Simple: overworked nurses means underserved patients.
Increasing a nurse’s workload by just one patient increases patient mortality by 7 percent, according to Becker’s Hospital Review.
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The Hill: "This pandemic will expose what those in the industry have known for decades. America doesn't have enough nurses, and it's the country's caregivers and most vulnerable populations that will pay the price." Read more.
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Roll Call: "For decades, the U.S. has maintained a delicate health care staffing balance by relying on foreign-trained nurses like me. Without us, most U.S. medical facilities would collapse." Read more.
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Roll Call: "Questions about equipment miss the system’s most obvious structural problem: Even before the very first novel coronavirus infection last year, the United States didn’t have enough nurses to treat the patients we already have." Read more.
AAIHR in the South Florida Sun Sentinel: Florida is at war with COVID-19. It needs more healthcare soldiers
Healthcare workers fighting to contain the state's coronavirus outbreak were outmanned and outgunned long before this disease. If Buckeyes stand any hope of bringing this epidemic to heel, we need
AAIHR urges Congress to recapture old, unused visas for qualified international nurses
As coronavirus outbreak spirals, thousands of international nurses cannot get green card processing amid visa retrogression
AAIHR in the Cincinnati Enquirer: To beat COVID-19, Ohio needs more nurses—STAT
Healthcare workers fighting to contain the state's coronavirus outbreak were outmanned and outgunned long before this disease. If Buckeyes stand any hope of bringing this epidemic to heel, we need
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