Trended profile of internationally educated nurses in the U.S.: Implications for the nurse shortage and beyond

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-2006

Publication Title

Journal of Nursing Administration

Volume

36

Issue

11

First page number:

522

Last page number:

525

Abstract

Foreign nurses help relieve cyclic US nurse shortages by augmenting the nurse workforce. The latest National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN) estimated that about 4% of the 2.7 million US registered nurses were internationally educated nurses (IENs). With an intensifying nurse shortage in the United States, IENs are again become a hot commodity. To use IENs effectively, it is imperative to understand this unique part of the registered nurses' work-force. However, there is very limited information on IENs in the United States. In fact, published national data on IENs are virtually nonexistent. This study filled some of the data gaps by examining the trends of demographical, educational, and employment characteristics of IENs using NSSRN conducted during 1977-2000.

Keywords

Nurses; Foreign; Nurses—Supply and demand; United States

Disciplines

Nursing | Nursing Administration

Language

English

Permissions

Use Find in Your Library, contact the author, or use interlibrary loan to garner a copy of the article. Publisher copyright policy allows author to archive post-print (author’s final manuscript). When post-print is available or publisher policy changes, the article will be deposited


Search your library

Share

COinS