Experienced RN from the Philippines Are Now In demand

United States had faced a shortage of nurses to staff hospitals and nursing homes for more than a decade. Above 100,000 positions remain unfilled in spite of the encouragement of some who had left the profession to return. If there is no will to attract people to enter the field to let the US nurse-training capacity expand, that number could triple or quadruple by 2025. According to experts, President Barack Obama's aim of escalating health coverage to millions of the uninsured may result to additional obstacles if the supply of nurses can't equip.

Last May, a proposed law that will permit 20,000 additional nurses to work in US every year for the next three years as a short-term measure to fill the gap, this was introduced by Representative Robert Wexler. If the bill will not pass, policymakers may incorporate it in a wide-ranging immigration amendment package. Last June 25, Obama was scheduled to meet the congressional leaders and they have discussed the reforming U.S. immigration laws. William R. Moore is the chief human resources director at El Centro Regional Medical Center, a 135 bed public hospital that normally has 30 open posts for registered nurses (RNs). He stated that he could rapidly employ dozens of eager, able nurses from the Philippines if the government will apportion more visas. [via]