Foreign-Educated Nurses and the Changing U.S. Nursing Workforce

Since World War II, foreign-educated nurses have been a significant part of the U.S. nursing workforce. They continue to be aggressively recruited to fill health care vacancies, especially during times of nursing shortages. Yet many graduates of foreign nursing schools have come to the United States to practice nursing only to discover that they are unable to pass the U.S. licensure examination and thus cannot work as registered nurses. [author’s description]