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December 2007, Vol 97, No. 12 | American Journal of Public Health 2120-2121
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.121988

LETTER

POLSKY AND SOCHALSKI RESPOND

Daniel Polsky, PhD and Julie Sochalski, PhD, RN

Daniel Polsky is with the School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Julie Sochalski is with the School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Daniel Polsky, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 423 Guardian Drive, Blockley Hall, Rm. 1212, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (e-mail: polsky@mail.med.upenn.edu).

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

As Nichols et al. note, US immigration laws provide for a number of screening mechanisms to ensure that the nursing workforce immigrating to the United States meets appropriate quality standards. The growing demand for registered nurses (RNs) in the United States, and its resulting increase in both the number of RNs and countries contributing them, will pose a growing challenge to maintain the vigorous enforcement of these quality provisions.

We are grateful to Nichols et al. for emphasizing the advantages of migration to the migrating nurses, their families, and to those who may benefit from their remittances. Additional advantages may . . . [Full Text]






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