Health Affairs, 23, no. 3 (2004): 68 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.23.3.68 © 2004 by Project HOPE	New Online   Senate Health Reform Bill   Rewarding Providers   Public Option Policy Brief   Health Reform & Abortion   Delivery System Reform

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Nurse Migration

PROLOGUE

Can Migration Cure Nurse Shortages? Should It?

PROLOGUE: The intermittent nurse shortages in the world’s richest countries have created a steady flow of nurses from the developing world, breeding a cottage industry of immigration brokers and sometimes leaving a tattered health care system in source countries. These two papers by the top U.S. researchers on the nurse workforce analyze the trends in nurse migration but then stop to ask the broader questions about the ethics of luring nurses away from their home countries when the shortage is caused by breakdowns in the medical education system of the developed world.

In the first paper Linda Aiken of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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