Editor's Note Direct-hire international recruitment can be a viable long-term strategy to stabilize staffing and improve care delivery amid a worsening shortage of registered nurses (RNs), according to a May 20 article in Daily Nurse. To make the case, the article extensively quotes Ron Hoppe, CEO of WorldWide HealthStaff Solutions…
Nursing is not a career path for the faint of heart. However, working in places wracked by civil strife and natural catastrophes can strain the composure of the most elite in any specialty. If the OR tent lifting away in strong post-hurricane winds stateside is not bad enough, imagine having…
Editor's Note In this paper, published in Health Affairs on May 4, Tony Yang, ScD, LLM, MPH, endowed professor in health policy at the George Washington School of Nursing, and his coauthors argue that a more comprehensive approach than recruiting internationally educated nurses is needed to address the US nursing…