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H.R. 1001, The Nursing Relief Act of 2009
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Herald
February 18, 2009, 10:37am (report abuse)We have an enormous shortage of nurses and only the way to satisfy the healthcare need is to get nurses from foreign countries. This bill should be passed, so that we can get a good healthcare. Senators/Congressman, Please pass this bill. Thank you.
JR
February 18, 2009, 11:04am (report abuse)The only REAL way to get good nurses is to train them. We don't need to import nurses, we need to get the training programs up and running, pay the nurses what they are worth, and quit depending on outside sources.
My recent personal experiences with two foreign born nurses during a stay in the hospital have caused me to be very concerned about this whole idea. Although both were RN's, neither spoke english sufficiently well enough to be understood. When asked why these nurses were even employed in the hospital, the director of operations said "They are all we can get." It appears that the hospitals are not paying a good enough wage to attract and keep good nurses and the result is to import help.
My vote on this is "NO" because we cannot afford to allow lowered standards of care.
KS
February 19, 2009, 4:36am (report abuse)The reason why some people experienced lowered standards of care is because there is not enough americans do the job! Whether we like to foreign nurses taking care of us, it is still BETTER than not seeing by any nurse while we are in a hospital.
We need more nurses!!
Please pass this bill!
JR
February 19, 2009, 10:37am (report abuse)Instead of importing poorly performing nurses why not entice the many trained nurses back from places like the drug companies and the insurance companies. They left the hospitals because they could make a better wage. If the hospitals would pay a wage commensurate with the work there would not be this so-called lack of nurses.
GMA
February 19, 2009, 8:03pm (report abuse)All RN's had the same examination and equally qualified for the position either foreign or not. Foreign nurses, aside from taking nursing examination are required to take english examination, so I doubt that they are not fluent in english.Senators/Congressman, Please pass this bill. Thank you and mabuhay!
JR
February 20, 2009, 12:40am (report abuse)The problem is that they are only required to take written english qualification exams, not verbal.
Anyone who had done their homework would know that there is a great deal of difference between being able to communicate in writing and being able to communicate verbally. The two examples I had to deal with were not able to make themselves understood and could have caused harm to a patient.
And just to put a point on it, one of them was a filipina. So mabuhay to you as well.
CD Hill
February 20, 2009, 12:46am (report abuse)Don't be putting any more foreign nurses in the hospitals. It's already bad enough. How about putting more money into training some americans instead.
Douglas
February 20, 2009, 3:59am (report abuse)Certainly there can be no higher priorty than well staffed hospitals clinics and nursing homes to meet the needs of our aging population. Federal mandated health programs are sure to put added strain on health care professionals. Surely they pick up English quick enough.
JR
February 20, 2009, 8:34am (report abuse)Do you want them practicing their english on you while you are recovering from heart-lung surgery? I sure as hell did not and said so. As to the idea that they will be in hospital clinics and nursing homes, you obviously haven't paid much attention to who works there. The number of RN's in nursing homes is usually one or maybe two. And many clinics still depend on LPN/LVN nurses. It still surprises me as to how uninformed people are when it comes to their own healthcare.
Douglas
February 20, 2009, 3:03pm (report abuse)For me or a member of my family it is not so important which language the medical professionals practice so long as they practice medicine.
Melodrama aside, the potential for malpractice litigation makes it unlikely in the extreme a patient would be endangered due to miscommunication in a hospital setting. This legislation is aimed at skilled highly motivated individuals who overcome great odds to carry on their chosen vocation. The American patient and the medical system as whole might well benefit greatly from the exchange of information and ideas with people who have worked in less than ideal settings under extremely challenging circumstances.
Anu
February 22, 2009, 5:02am (report abuse)Hello, International Nurses do undergo Inglish Test in speaking, reading, writing and listening. The test is administered by Cambridge University and unless the RN gets seven band score in speaking module CGFNS does not issue the visa scren certificate.
CD Hill
February 22, 2009, 8:44am (report abuse)That test is not universally conducted for all candidates.
And you obviously did not pass.
rj
(logged in user) February 22, 2009, 5:32pm (report abuse)shortage is very much effected for Nursing home than Hospitals, atleast make arrangements for the nurses in united states with a degree in nursing from united states. Please pass the bill asap.
SAI
February 22, 2009, 5:40pm (report abuse)NURSES IS A MUST IN UNIED STATES AT THE PRESENT SITUATION ! YOU WILL REALISE IT WHEN U R IN HOSPITAL. ENGLISH SPEAKING WONT DO ANYTHING WHEN YOU ARE SICK!!!. MY PERSONAL EXPERIANCE IS THAT ATLEAST FORIEGN NURSES ARE BETTER IN PATIENT CARE! ANYONE WHO WANT TO COMMENT 1ST THINK WHEN U R HOSPITILIASED WHAT WILL BE THE SITUATION! ITZ REAL !!! THERE ARE SOME NURSES IN THE UNITED STATES WITH TEMP VISAS ATLEAST PLEASE PASS THE BILL TO MAKE THEM WORK AND SERVE THE PEOPLE IN UNITED STATES...
CD Hill
February 22, 2009, 11:56pm (report abuse)And just another example of the poor communication skills you will be forced to put up with if this bill passes.
FJ Rankin
February 23, 2009, 8:32am (report abuse)If you want to see something that will scare the stuffing out of you try listening to a filipino nurse and a pakistani nurse trying to talk to each other in english. Especially when they are discussing your care after a stomach operation. Sure made me wonder what the hell was going to happen.
HM
February 23, 2009, 11:55am (report abuse)This is a Bill aiming to keep those US-trained international nurses. It is not aimed to import foreign nurses. It is not immigration oriented either.
JA
February 23, 2009, 12:38pm (report abuse)Foreign nurses have more experiences than domestic one since they passed tons of exams which include nursing skill ( their own country and the US) and English test ( reading, listening, speaking and writing). Most of them have a few years work experience as well. Congress should pass the bill and let hospitals make decision to choose nurses that they want.
Michael N
February 23, 2009, 12:44pm (report abuse)It is vital to keep the U.S. trained foreign nurses since they are educated in the U.S. and are qualified for the language requirements and nursing skills. And they understand the health care system in the U.S. Think about it, what a shame a U.S. trained foreign nurse cannot work for American citizens who are in need of the nursing care. What a great waste of nursing educational resources in this country to exclude the U.S. trained foreign nurses simply because ther are not born here.
SJ
February 23, 2009, 1:11pm (report abuse)I agree with Michael, we have numerous foreign nurses with US training/degrees but unable to work due to visa restrictions. Senators and Congressmen please pass this bill ASAP, this will be a big win for American health care system.
al
(logged in user) February 23, 2009, 1:20pm (report abuse)In my opinion, government should forced the foreigner nurse who was not trained in the U.S caz they do not know anout our policy and their english is poor even thouth they pass the exams. We should keep the nurse who is trained in the U.S caz they know our country.
Grace
February 23, 2009, 1:21pm (report abuse)Totally agree with Michael!!
Grace
February 23, 2009, 1:23pm (report abuse)I think that the government should allow nurses to work and have the residency in the United States if they were trained here.
Robert. G
February 23, 2009, 1:28pm (report abuse)Totally agree with Michael. US educated foreign nurses usually have less trouble with language and the other aspects of the US health care system, as long as they can pass NCLEX. This is the quick remedy to solve the shortage problem.
Jeasmine
February 23, 2009, 1:38pm (report abuse)Before there is a solid evaluation system built up, foreign nurses who have U.S. nursing education background should be first considered.
RW
February 23, 2009, 1:57pm (report abuse)I've read this bill and it appears to me that some of you are mistaken about what foreign nurses will be employed. I do not find anything that says these will be US trained nurses as HM stated. It makes no distinction other than requiring them to be "qualified" RN's.
I take exception to this whole idea. While some believe these people are well and highly qualified I do not. My friend died as a direct result of misunderstood orders. A foreign nurse made a critical mistake and his family now has to go on without him. You may believe it is the hospital's problem to make sure this doesn't happen but as long as these people are available they will be hired.
I would much rather see a concentrated effort to train and hire U.S. nurses.
US trained nurses
February 23, 2009, 2:53pm (report abuse)The problem of nurse shortage lies not in insufficient training of US nurses, but in the hard labor and stress. Even if more US nurses are trained, a large portion would transfer to other less stressful job after several years. On the contrary, in everage, foreign nurses are more persistant in nursing work.Isn't it a huge waste just spending money on training US nurses who would transfer to other jobs several years later? I support hiring foreign nurses, especially who are trained in US, by which the quality could be guarenteed.
rn2009
February 23, 2009, 3:07pm (report abuse)it is ridiculous to say that foreign nurse will lower the quality care! nursing care is not only done by mouth!!!! it needs a caring heart and skills
RNMM
February 23, 2009, 3:14pm (report abuse)Please pass this bill. It's important that there are enough nurses working in the hospital.
RN2007
February 23, 2009, 3:16pm (report abuse)I totally agree with rn2009. Foreign-born nurses have what it takes to provide good nursing care.
Fulai Ran
February 23, 2009, 3:22pm (report abuse)We are foreigners, but we get nursing education in US, and GPA with 3.85. there is no reason to put bias on our career perfermance.
LC
February 23, 2009, 3:26pm (report abuse)Please pass this bill. It is important to overcome the nursing shortage. Staffing with sufficient nurses is an important way to improve patient safety and satisfication.
Xiaolin Zhang
February 23, 2009, 3:43pm (report abuse)Please pass this bill. At least give the workign visa to the foreinger who get the nursing education in U.S.
I am a nurse
February 23, 2009, 4:15pm (report abuse)I worked 1year in the hosptial after I got my nursing degree in US, my boss and my patients like me very much since I worked hard and I have a warm heart. But I can not work since I have no working permit.
Yuan
February 23, 2009, 4:23pm (report abuse)I think it is not fair for those people who think forgein nurses would lower the standard of nursing care. I had my education in the U.S and graduated top 3% from my class. How come those ppl whose native language is English weren't performed as well as I did? You can't judge anyone's ablity by how well they speak English.And JR, I think you worry too much of your living standards instead of your patients... Also, Sadly, I can't work due to no visa for us.
Regina
February 23, 2009, 4:41pm (report abuse)I dont understand why the US has such strict requirement for foreign nurses. according to my knowledge, Australia and some other countries allow foreign nurses work for them as long as they pass certain tests.
The US is a land of freedom. Why not give a chance for foreign nurses if they make an effort to become qualified.
Yuan
February 23, 2009, 4:52pm (report abuse)And to RW, Nurse are humand beings and Human Beings make mistakes no matter if you are foreign nurses or American nurses.
zmm2008
February 23, 2009, 5:14pm (report abuse)Please support this bill! It is important to have enough nurses in the short term.
xinna
February 23, 2009, 5:35pm (report abuse)I support this bill, because i got a nursing degree in U.s. and passed the test.i can not work because i do not have green card.
Elizabeth
February 23, 2009, 5:40pm (report abuse)support this bill
I feel so exhauzed everyday I work. We need more nurses to help America\'s healthcare
SY
February 23, 2009, 6:58pm (report abuse)no matter they are foreigner or not, if they can do a good job, the act should be passed.I do have good experience with foreign nurses.
Xiaolin
February 23, 2009, 7:56pm (report abuse)I had been trained to be charge nurse in my hosptial, I am a foreigner with US education. What do you think?
Hope
February 23, 2009, 8:16pm (report abuse)There're a lot of ways to improve the quality of care. Banning foreign nurses from working in the US legally isn't one of them.
The only nurse in our unit that i can trust starting a new IV on patients is a Filipino. Of course i can't justify anything by a single example, neither can anyone.
YOUNG
February 23, 2009, 8:27pm (report abuse)Definitely, this bill has to pass. I agree w/ JR about US make most effort to grow up American nurses. But that is a long-term process, and that’s not going to decrease our heavy workload next month or next year, maybe it will do work 10 years later or further later. Therefore we need more international nurses NOT to have DOZENS of patients or hundreds for tomorrow. I usually have 10-12 patients. I know and you know, everybody knows that this number is terribly huge. But!! Think what if all international nurses go back their country? You guys, what u gonna do tomorrow?
YOUNG
February 23, 2009, 8:27pm (report abuse)International nurses lower the quality of health care. What? I never ever heard before that kind of nonsense. That comment absolutely has serious bias against foreigners. I know that according to nursing researches, many minority language users are seen as disordered and too few as gifted. In our hospital, many international nurses provide very high quality of care, work hard, and barely complain of their heavy assignments. They care patient w. compassion, respect and good performance NOT W/ MOUTH.
Pass the bill
February 23, 2009, 8:30pm (report abuse)This bill is essential to provide the best quality of care to our nation. Please pass this bill. We can't jeparodize pt's safety anymore.
Foreign nurse
February 23, 2009, 8:52pm (report abuse)I don't understand why students granduate with other major can at least have a chance to apply for working visa, and nursing major has absolutely no way at all. We should create equality to all the students.
TR
February 23, 2009, 8:53pm (report abuse)Hey, who are posting pro-bill comments and who are posting anti-bill comments? Obviously foreign nurses who want Green Card are posting pro-bill comments, while American nurses are posting anti-bill comments. That's the problem of internet comments and voting, it could come from any corner of the world.
Kelruze
February 23, 2009, 9:08pm (report abuse)The fact is there is a massive shortage of RNs in the United States and this is only going to get worse. You can say things like lets pay them more or lets establish training facilities but the fact is there aren't many people going in to this particular career field anymore. So the question is asked, would you rather have a Nurse that has the skills necessary to treat you but may not be able to speak English to your standards or would you rather have no nurse at all? This is what the future will be without foreign aid. Wake up people, you can't have your cake and eat it too.
we need nursing
February 23, 2009, 9:34pm (report abuse)This is a deteriorating circye, the higher nurse:patient ritio, the less people want to choose this career. It is too tired for people working in this field. eventurally, the whole medical field bust! it is an emergency action!
James W
February 23, 2009, 9:45pm (report abuse)The fact is that some American nurses, especially people from the nursing union are doing everything they can and making up every seemingly reasonable reasons to oppose the nursing relief bills. Why? They do not really care about patient safety and benefit as they claim to. They are selfish and worry about the import of foreign nurses may take away their jobs or lower their wages, which are not true. So they have any "legitimate" reasons that foreign nurses have lower health care standard or the import of foreign nurses is not ethical to their home countries. Every one with a sharp mind knows that such cliams from the nursing union are biased and ungrounded. The fact is that the nurses in the foreign countries are always oversupply and there have never been a problem of draining out the health care resources.
NoNursingShortage
February 23, 2009, 10:01pm (report abuse)American nursing students have trouble finding their first jobs. With the current economic recess, and unemployment rate in record high, job opportunities should be saved to Americans, instead of importing more foreign nurses to take away jobs from American nurses. I've also been to a couple of foreign nurse sites, there are threads there urging their people to vote for the bill, some even urge their people to write email to Congressmen pretending they are American citizens to urge the pass of the bill. This is really bad.
TIA
February 23, 2009, 10:10pm (report abuse)1 American, 1 Chinese, and 1 Filipino nurses : 40 pts
V.S.
1 American nurse: 40pts.
SUPER EASY to chose which one is higher quality!!!!!!
Some people don't know which one is.
Kelruze
February 23, 2009, 10:18pm (report abuse)My Mother works in a hospital, so do others that I know. There IS a nursing shortage. All of you who do not believe this reminds me of the people who will not get in the boat even as the flood waters rise around them. Then when it is too late they blame someone else for their own short sightedness.
TIA stereotyping a people is dumb, and board lines bigotry. Think before you speak, we share this world with all different kinds of people and you do not have the right to cast judgment on the least of them.
NO Pass of the Bill
February 23, 2009, 10:20pm (report abuse)I originally came from a foreign country, from the things I know, not a few foreign people took nursing for a "shortcut" to Green Card. RN is listed as a "Schedule A" profession and no foreign labor certificate need to be filed to the labor dept. Congressmen, please do a survey on American Nursing school faculties and see how bad the job market really is nowadays. With many hospitals closed, many experienced American nurses have to look for jobs around. Congressmen, please use caution to read comments on this internet, this is not reliable. From my reading on a foreign nursing students website, they are urging everybody they know to vote for the bill, and to post misleading comments again and again.
Jenny2009
February 23, 2009, 10:23pm (report abuse)There is a big nursing shortage in the hospitals. Nurses are forced to work over time. Importing foreign nurses not only can solve the problem of nursing shortage, but also saves the time and money to train the American nurses. This country has diversified patients and we do need diversified nurses to provide culturally competent care.
James W
February 23, 2009, 10:27pm (report abuse)To nonursingshortage, what you said might be true depending on where you want to locate your first job. I know in a few states they have plenty of nurses like Massachusettes because more nurses choose to stay there. But overall, the country is still in urgent need of nurses, especially in the Southern states,Southwest states and rural areas. I work in Vermont and I know how my employer is having difficulty in searching for nurses to fill in everyday schedule. If you worry about job being taken away by foreign nurses, that is not the truth. You still have plenty of opportunities to locate a nursing job if you don't narrow down your search to one specific nursing field or one specific location.
Marcia
February 23, 2009, 10:38pm (report abuse)Support. Nurse shortage is a big problem.
TIA
February 23, 2009, 10:40pm (report abuse)sorry about stereotyping them, but Don't call me DUMB. I know what is going on today. My point is that US needs more nurses, but US can't supply enough nurses without international nurses. But d/t new immigration law, there is no legal way for new international nurses to work in US today.But now, fortunately some ppl try to make new bill to let them be able to work legally, but so many ppl are AGAINST it.
Jane S
February 23, 2009, 10:41pm (report abuse)My classmate, who was born outside the US, has been staying at home since graduation in 12/2006. We all got same education but she cannot work just because of no visa numbers for green card and special working visas for foreign born nurses even they are graduated here. My orientee had to go back to school for MSN to maintain a legal status after his OPT expired. The congress needs to do something for these nurses.
Jane S
February 23, 2009, 10:58pm (report abuse)I work from 7A to 7:30P. However, I never leave the floor at 7:30P. The ideal nurse:patient ratio for my floor is 1:4. In reality, it is aleays 1:5 or 1:6. We definitely need more nurses, especailly those graduated in the US.
former RN
February 23, 2009, 11:26pm (report abuse)I worked in the hospital as an RN before. I think foreign RN are well qualified for the JOB even though their do speak English with various accent. I also know many of them were actually originally MDs in their country. There is no guarantee that every foreign nurse will perform at expected level as the same for American nurses. But they do help to alleviate the nurse shortage.
I mentioned that I was a former RN, because the RN job really is not the best out there. High patient ratio, bad working environment, ever try to hold you pee for >8 hrs because your patient keep ringing the call bell?
please pass the bill and get a lower patient per nurse ratio.(And don't cut back on CNA while lower the patient ratio.)
jiang qian
February 23, 2009, 11:45pm (report abuse)Let God help those who want to live a godly life here without too much struggling for this trivial thing so that we can grow up spiritually knowing God has been blessing us. Praise the Lord when we are in good times and keep on praying while in hard ones.
Overtime vs. foreign nurses
February 23, 2009, 11:48pm (report abuse)The hosptial I worked was never had enough nurses, and hosptial has to pay double to beg nurses do overtime.As a new grad, you could get more than $600/shift. Of course, hosptial's buget goes way up, and the shortage gives burden to the whole health care system. Why not import foreign nurses to lower the cost??? Those selfish nurses, it is not the time to worry about you interest.
jeana
February 24, 2009, 12:31am (report abuse)Have you thought about shortage of nurses in their country?
America using workforce without pay any money. That's shame on America. Their country invested a lot of money for the nurses' education. Neverthless c/o of nurses from out of country? Absolutely ridiculous.
America never paid anything in training for those nurses from out of country.
jerome
February 24, 2009, 1:29am (report abuse)In order to have a complete and rapid healthcare system, nurses no matter where they come from are definitely necessary. The bill should be passed, which would be a great news to all of us. Nobody wants to see the shortage of nurses
Johnson
February 24, 2009, 1:52am (report abuse)Create W-visa will add 50,000(Nurse) plus 100,000(spouse and children) to EB3. The backlog for EB3 is 4,7,8 year due to 195,000 H1B in 3 years around 2000. If HR 1001 passed, backlog will be 20 year! That's a generation! That's not the way it should be.
Now the better way is open door to graduates of quilified US nursing program. American pay the money and train them and have them live and work in the US and help reduce the nursing shortage. Why not?
Also patients won't compliant about the poor English for foreign nurse. The US Graduates live and study in the US for many years and the English and live style will be qualify to serve as a nurse.
Pass the Bill
February 24, 2009, 2:18am (report abuse)Pass the bill for the U.S. educated foreign nurses.
Lynn
February 24, 2009, 3:11am (report abuse)I am a foreign student who now is studying in a nursing school here. My dream is becoming a RN and work in America. I like school and i enjoy learning, although the tuition for foreign students are so expensive. My GPA so far is 4.0, and i am always the top students in class. However, whenever i think about not being able to work here after i graduate, i am so depressed and desperate. I am very excited about what i have learned from school, and i so want to utilize these knowledge in my future nursing practice. But, i CANNOT because there is no work visa for foreign nurses. While my classmates are worrying about which hospital they want to work, i can only pray for the congress to pass this bill. I don't care which hospital i can work; i don't care how much i can get paid; i don't care how hard the nurse job is. I just want to work, and that's it, and that's my dream...
EL
February 24, 2009, 3:22am (report abuse)the nursing job is highly stressful job. A lot of licensed nurse (around 500,000) left hospital because of stress. This is not simple increase well-being and call them back to work. As a result, the most effective and easiest way is to import foreign nurses. I support this bill.
Hopefulforever
February 24, 2009, 3:50am (report abuse)Only dedicated nurses can score the tests to get a visa to come to US and they are studious all the time and hardworking. Hon'ble Congressmen, please lift the current retrogression for nurses visa as many qualified, able nurses waiting to serve at US hospitals , and that is the need of the hour for patients and hospitals in US...
Jnovem
February 24, 2009, 3:52am (report abuse)Yes. lifting the retrogression now will be a part of planning for coming years' expected nurse shortage
yatou
February 24, 2009, 9:29am (report abuse)i have waited for a long time to go to work as a nurse in us,there are more and more nurses going to onther countries such as australia, canada.i hope it would pass soon
susufairy
February 24, 2009, 9:39am (report abuse)I think foreign RN are well qualified for the JOB even though they do speak English with various accent. Communication is only a small part of nursing care. The most import thing for nurse is professional skills and the spirit to the patient.The nurse is also human beings. High patient ratio not only can cause mistakes, but also can decrease the standards of care. Then more nurses will quit the jobs. Foreign nurses, aside from taking nursing examination are required to take english examination, so I doubt that they are not fluent in english. Senators/Congressman, Please pass this bill
US EDUCATED NURSE
February 24, 2009, 10:07am (report abuse)You should at least pass this bill for U.S educated nurses considering how much money they pay for school, how diligent they work for it, and the amount of money hospitals have invested on them. Of course, their English are way much better than nurses trained outside the contry and they understand much better reagarding the medical model.
Milk
February 24, 2009, 10:26am (report abuse)AHA, in US, Black CAN be PRESIDENT, "Milk" can win Oscar. As all American said, everyone should have the same right. All equal. How US-graduated Nurse cannot get permission like H1B to work. All major can apply H1B from outside of US if employer support EXCEPT nursing major. That is the discrimination.
Aaron Ostrom
February 24, 2009, 10:46am (report abuse)The unchecked critical shortage of health care professionals will undoubtedly result in ever higher costs and lesser availability of health care as the demand, ever and relentlessly, exceeds the supply.
peace
February 24, 2009, 1:12pm (report abuse)I don't agree w. using the term, "IMPOTING" nurses, because IMPORTING means purchase products/services made in other countries. But the US pays $0 for that. International nurses and nursing students pay 100% of expenses for their education, entire fees for getting VISA/Green Card and livings in US by their own money. I, as an international nurse, also spent lots of money for schooling and living in U.S. without any financial support. I’m extremely lucky b/c I’m still working w/ CPT (part time working permit issued by my graduate school), but sadly, some of my international classmates went back to their countries, and some are preparing to go to other countries. This is WTF. Plz, stop antiforeignism, and stop judging us as unprofessional nurse b/c we are ESL). We are truly beneficial to your health, your family’s health and your community’s health. Plz, throw away your bias against us, and open your mind to us.
Mike M
February 24, 2009, 1:57pm (report abuse)So, wait, we have massive unemployment rates in many industries and vacancies in the nursing industry. And we want to import nurses? Seriously?
We need nurses to fill those vacancies, sure. How about providing incentives for people to become nurses?
nurse PA
February 24, 2009, 2:43pm (report abuse)Do you think everyone is qualified and interested in nursing work? Whether foreign or American, we should be sure that the money or position provided for nursing work is efficient and effective for a long period. Say, every nurse graduate that get a job in nursing at the time of bad economy should persist on nursing work for at least 10-15 years. Otherwise, the investment on training nurses would go to waste when the economy gets better. Many of stressed nurses change their job to more easy-money-making jobs.