Last week, Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced new legislation to target factors contributing to the nationwide nursing shortage. The Nurse Faculty Shortage Reduction Act addresses the pay gap between clinical and faculty nursing staff by providing a federal wage differential. The current pay disparity discourages nurse leaders from…
This week, former US Health and Human Services Secretaries Kathleen Sebelius (President Obama’s administration) and Alex Azar (President Trump’s administration) jointly published a bipartisan opinion piece in Time calling on Congress to act quickly before a tidal wave of retirement all but certain to overwhelm the nursing industry takes hold and threatens patients nationwide. The…
Amid an ongoing domestic nursing shortage, the US healthcare sector is once again at risk of suffering from the long-term ramifications of COVID-19 after the State Department announced a decision that will reduce the number of green cards granted to incoming nurses. In a May bulletin, the Department announced it had moved the cut-off date…
30 percent of nurses are likely to leave their career, a seven-point increase since 2021, according to a new AMN Healthcare survey based on more than 18,200 completed questionnaires. The startling new finding indicates the nursing shortage will continue to worsen for the foreseeable future absent any action. The survey also found that nurses view…
In a new op-ed in The Hill, Hispanic Leadership Fund president Mario H. Lopez argues that “skilled immigration offers a viable solution” to the ongoing nursing shortage. Lopez writes that “[f]oreign-educated nurses fill critical gaps in care” and come to the U.S. already highly trained. Lopez also notes that a recently announced delay in visa…
In a new opinion piece, Frontiers of Freedom president George Landrith argues that a network of activist trial attorneys is pursuing “completely inappropriate” human trafficking and RICO claims against a healthcare staffing company. The lawsuit, if successful, could exacerbate the nation’s staffing shortages. The lawsuit boils down to the labor contracts signed by foreign-trained nurses…
In the aftermath of COVID-19, the World Health Organization is now imploring national healthcare industries to better prepare for the next pandemic. Citing climate change, rapid deforestation, and increasing globalization, the WHO claims it is a matter of when, not if, the next global pandemic will strike. Now, states are sounding the alarm. Today, they…
Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice and a constitutional law attorney, writes in a new op-ed that trial lawyers have opted “to sensationalize ordinary employment contract disputes” against a healthcare staffing company to pursue “higher payout or professional notoriety.” These lawyers, representing foreign-educated nurses, claim that their clients are victims under the Trafficking…
At a Senate Health Committee hearing last week, U.S. Senator Mitt Romney highlighted the urgent need to remedy the shortage of healthcare workers in the United States. In the aftermath of COVID-19, the healthcare sector is still in recovery mode, and to fully rehabilitate it, professionals must employ all resources at their disposal—including utilizing foreign-educated…
As yet another medical catastrophe threatens to engulf the American healthcare sector, experts are sounding the alarm on the fragile state of our medical landscape. As it stands, the healthcare sector cannot support another widespread crisis. The “tridemic”—fueled by the simultaneous outbreak of a new COVID-19 subvariant, the flu, and RSV—has had a significant impact…
