I am a German male Nurse. I explore a lot of hardship to get my degree which I gad since 25 years. Now I even have to go back to school because certain requirments chanced in the State I am in. Not only this, because I am longer then 5 years in the US and longer then 5 Years not able to practice RN I have to attend a 500 hour reentry course, well without pay.

Does not make any sense to me talking about need ing nurses all over.  Comments welcome

Klaus

May I offer you a warning? Americans tend to be poor listeners. They also tend to fault immigrants who do not use English fluently. Some will ridicule an immigrant for even minor lapses in English usage. Of course, this predisposition is unjust:  many immigrants know three or more languages; Americans typically know only English.

Painting with an awfully broad brush I see.

I have to say the cohort of Americans I interact with do not, by any means, fit this description. Some of us do not get our news from Fpx or read People magazine. Some of us actually subscribe to The Economist and get news from the BBC World Service and NPR.

You might want to find a different posse to hang with.

I am wondering, with all of our parochial attitudes and ignorance of world affairs,why  anyone would want to come here?... Ask a Geman about how they feel about Turkish immigants or a French person what they think of Algerian immigrants.

There is no reason why we SHOULD make it easy....Nothing at all wrong with a bit of protectionism.

While Euopean countries do not produce nurses as a diaspora to go out in the world and send money back  to prop up a failing economy caused by corruption... many third world countries do... and as I have stated before WILL cause wages to DECREASE...

Wages in nursing are a function of SUPPLY AND DEMAND... period.

I have no problem putting up some roadblocks to decrease the number of nurses moving  here. The medical community has already done it... and it works. You wnat to be a nurse in the US? Well, go to school here.