

American state on the
Covid nurse shortage.
Learn how the AAIHR is
fighting to secure safe
hospital staffing in your
community.
nursing shortages
in every state

Costantini's op-ed in the
Orlando Sentinel on the urgent
need to get more nurses into
Florida's hospitals.
We need more nurses to defuse it.
From around the world to your bedside
Rural. Urban. Suburban. International nurses are there for you.

The real question isn't if the US has enough masks or beds. It's if we have enough nurses.
The Healthcare Workforce Resiliency Act would allow US hospitals to hire international nurses to meet the demands of this pandemic.
Demand for health care has never been higher. At the same time, staffing has never been so low.
For more than 70 years, foreign health care professionals have served US
patients
203700
additional RNs needed each year
1000000
RNs will retire by 2030
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.
Shari Costantini
, The Hill
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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.
Virgie "Gigi" Roy, R.N.
, Roll Call
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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.
Shari Costantini
, Roll Call
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"Our caregivers are exhausted. They're fatigued physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually," Tom VanOsdol, president and CEO of Florida health system Ascension Florida, testified before a panel of Sunshine State legislators

States look to overseas nurses
"Our caregivers are exhausted. They're fatigued physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually," Tom VanOsdol, president and CEO of Florida health system Ascension Florida, testified before a panel of Sunshine State legislators

Medical rationing in America
America’s nursing shortage has become so acute that hospitals—large and small, rural and urban—are being forced to ration medical care. We’ll say it louder for those in the back: the
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