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December 2007, Vol 97, No. 12 | American Journal of Public Health 2119
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.120550

LETTER

THE EXPORT OF NURSES FROM EUROPE TO THE UNITED STATES

Jozsef Betlehem, PhD, MEd, MSN, RN, Imre Boncz, MD, PhD, Ildiko Kriszbacher, PhD, Andras Olah, MSN, RN and Jozsef Bódis, MD, PhD, DSc

Jozsef Betlehem, Ildiko Kriszbacher, Andras Olah, and Jozsef Bódis are with the Institute of Nursing and Clinical Sciences, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary. Imre Boncz is with the Department of Health Economics, Policy, and Management, University of Pecs.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Dr Jozsef Betlehem, University of Pecs, Vorosmarty Street 4, H-7621 Pecs, Hungary (e-mail: betlehem@etk.pte.hu).

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 would like to highlight the main conclusion by Polsky et al.1 on the similar qualifications of nurses trained within and outside the United States. The nursing shortage is an important phenomenon not only in the United States but also in Europe.2 Since the fall of socialism in Hungary in 1989, the country has become an important source of well-qualified nurses for Western countries. During Hungary’s economic reforms in the early 1990s, nursing education was elevated from diploma level to degree level to match that of other countries in Western Europe. Until 2005, the development of the bachelor of science . . . [Full Text]






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