The
United States is about to learn the hard way what happens when an entire
generation of nurses retires without enough new clinicians to fill their shoes
at the bedside. That is how an opinion
piece in Time magazine presents the US nursing crisis. The opinion piece co-authored by HHS
Secretaries Kathleen Sebelius (Obama) and Alex Azar (Trump) urges Congress to
recapture unused visas for qualified international nurses to address the
growing US nursing shortage.
The
Secretaries plainly argue that,
“This
is a whole-of-America crisis and we need a whole-of-government response,
including a sensible loosening of licensing requirements, prioritize positive
patient outcomes by modernizing the responsibilities and standards of nursing,
supporting expanded educational opportunities, and enabling lawful
employment-based immigration.”
The Congress would do well to heed the Secretaries warnings and solutions.
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