Becker's Healthcare May 4, 2023
International recruiting has emerged as a popular solution to the ongoing nursing shortage, but the strategy fails to address the underlying issues fueling the staffing crisis, three nursing experts wrote in a May 4 commentary published in Health Affairs Forefront.
Recruiting international nurses, alone, will not solve the nation’s staffing crisis, as the tactic does not resolve “problematic organizational cultures that are unsupportive of nurses” and fuel high turnover rates in healthcare facilities.
“The assumption, on the part of hospital and other healthcare facility/system administrators or policymakers, that [internationally-educated nurses] would accept the same subpar working conditions that are causing U.S.-trained nurses to leave clinical practice in U.S. health systems is offensive,” the experts argued.
They suggested several federal-level...
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