Our Nation’s Nursing Crisis: How Quick Fixes to Our Immigration System Could Go a Long Way to Ease the Pain
By: Richard Hanus, Esq. Published March 24, 2022 While the U.S. faces an unprecedented healthcare worker shortage, our U.S. immigration system in theory potentially offers a variety of solutions toward bringing foreign workers here to fill these roles. This is especially the case for registered nurses, who work in a space the U.S. Congress, decades ago, has already designated as a “shortage occupation”. But notwithstanding our nation’s desperate need to fill positions and the huge numbers of foreign RN’s looking to live in the U.S., our legal immigration system fails in meaningfully addressing this need, as it is plagued by far [...]