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Article Date: 06/21/2009

More Foreign Nurses Bring Hope for Staffing, Concern for Working Conditions
Although the recession has caused many nurses to return to the profession, around 100,000 positions remain unfilled and is expected to double or quadruple by 2025. There will be difficulty in Obama's hope to expand health care to millions of uninsured if there are not enough nurses to meet the demand. To raise staffing levels, lawmakers are considering allowing 20,000 additional nurses a year to enter the United States for the next three years.

This trend of importing nurses could lower incentives to improve working conditions such as understaffing, mandatory overtime, and work that is physically demanding. It is this very reason that one-fifth of the nursing workforce is currently not practicing their profession.

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