Foreign nurses fill void in Mississippi

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Foreign nurses fill void in Mississippi:"Registered nurse Jennifer Pogoy was almost 30, living with her parents, saving little money and working in a hospital so poorly equipped it didn't have intravenous fluid pumps.
It wasn't a tough decision to leave the Philippines when she got the chance to work at Central Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson for a daily salary that nearly matched her monthly pay."
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pb...410220362/1002

Andrew Lopez, RN
http://www.4nursing.com

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Yes we welcome their help and many that I have worked with are excellent nurses.

One thing I cannot understand is if there is such a shortest, then why every year is every school of nursing have a waiting list for entrance and what happens to all those that graduate..
I really feel it is a ploy of the hospitals , especially those that are for "profit" exaggerate their views on that and they go and seek foreign nurses coz they pay them less . as that is what is going on all the time. I have see and it is a reality. and yet there are thousands of young and older people out there awaiting entrance to nursing schools.

let us just give this some thought.

when it comes to money it rules and there are plenty of nurses in the stock.. they just don't want to pay for them to work and they want to keep their staff short. so they can reap the benefits.

this is one thing that really needs to be stopped.

[nursinghumor]

Hmmmmmm . . . . have to disagree with you on several points.

#1. Nursing Schools have waiting lists because there are shortages of nursing faculty to teach them. Colleges due to state funding cuts have reduced the capacity of nursing schools to accept & graduate new nurses. A graduate nurse can make as much or more than a nursing instructor, that fact discourages a lot of nurses from taking faculty positions.

#2. Graduates go straight to work, many have multiple job offers long before graduation.

#3. It's much more expensive to hire foreign nurses than to recruit from the USA. When they get here, they earn as much as any new graduate nurse would, not less.

#4. If every nurse with a license were working, there would still be a shortage. State Board of Nursing annual surveys have shown there there is "NOT" a large reserve of nurses with licenses available to fill the void.

I'll agree with you that hospitals don't want to pay if they don't have to.

Hospitals help create the shortage by cutting back (to save money) on nursing staff during the late 90s in cost cutting measures, reducing the need for schools of nursing to expand their programs (many reduced capacity or shut their doors).

They also contributed to the shortage by trying to squeeze as much out of their nursing staff as possible. That has created stressful and toxic conditions that are prompting many nurses to cut back their hours or leave the bedside entirely.

Andrew Lopez, RN
http://www.4nursing.com