Nursing shortage in the US

In recent years, the US has experienced a shortage of qualified health workers, which has overwhelmed nurses and physicians, who on many occasions have had to double their shifts to be able to assist the number of patients arriving at medical centers across the country. This situation naturally worsened after the sudden arrival of the global Coronavirus pandemic.

In the health system in general, the nursing shortage is peculiarly notorious because it actually creates a fairly wide gap. In fact, a study called “Nursing: Supply and Demand through 2020“, which was published in February 2020, before the first massive outbreak of Coronavirus in the North American territory, revealed that there was already a growing demand for qualified nurses nationwide even before the pandemic.

Let’s look at the main findings:

• The study projected that, through 2020, there would be 1.6 million job offers for nurses.
• At the same time, the study revealed that there would not be enough qualified local workers to fill these jobs.
• The study projected that, despite the economy driving new job openings, the health system would have to face a workforce shortage of approximately 200,000 nursing professionals in 2020.
• The retirement rate will continue to rise for decades to come, leaving a gap between qualified nurses and those who need training to meet healthcare professional eligibility requirements.

Adding to that, after the first massive COVID-19 outbreak, these figures naturally increased exponentially at a fairly rapid rate, and the country is currently facing one of the most alarming episodes of nursing shortage in history.

Immigration might be the solution to reduce nursing shortage

Taking into account the results of this study, several experts and critics have commented on the need to create strategies to fill the gaps in the local health system, especially when it comes to nursing professionals, and one of the most viable options is undoubtedly immigration.

In fact, according to a recent report by The Baltimore Sun, there are at least 5,000 qualified nurses around the world, who have already received a positive response to their immigration applications from the USCIS (US Citizenship and Immigration Services), but who have not been able to come to the US to provide their valuable and necessary services for the health system due to processing delays in embassies and consulates located in their countries.

This represents a gigantic problem for the US because these skilled workers are extremely essential to keep the health sector afloat amid a global health crisis unprecedented in the recent history of mankind.

Aside from the COVID-19 pandemic, immigration is an essential tool to fill skilled workforce gaps in the healthcare system, and at the same time, the US could strengthen its international competitiveness and the economy with the help of highly qualified foreign researchers and health professionals.

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