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December 2007, Vol 97, No. 12 | American Journal of Public Health 2120
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.121822

LETTER

FOREIGN-TRAINED NURSES IN US HEALTHCARE DELIVERY

Barbara L. Nichols, MS, RN, Charles E. Gessert, MD, MPH and Catherine R. Davis, PhD, RN

The authors are with the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools International, Philadelphia, Pa.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Catherine R. Davis, PhD, RN, Director of Global Research and Test Administration, CGFNS International, 3600 Market Street, Suite 400, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (e-mail: crdavis@cgfns.org).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

We at CGFNS International (the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools, Philadelphia, Pa) noted with interest the article by Polsky et al.1 We agree with their conclusions that foreign-trained nurses are a substantial part of the US nursing workforce and that the impact of foreign-trained nurses is likely to grow in coming years. Our own findings suggest that the trend in US employment of foreign-trained nurses has continued to grow in this decade, with increasing numbers of foreign-trained nurses applying to the CGFNS VisaScreen Program, a federal screening program for nurses seeking US occupational visas. The Philippines, India, Canada, . . . [Full Text]






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