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California hospitals look to recruit Mexican nurses

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, February 14, 2008

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As California hospitals are grappling with the nursing shortage, facilities are looking south of the border to recruit Mexican nurses, according to The Paramus Post.

Hospitals such as El Centro Regional Medical Center in El Centro, CA, are looking to recruit Mexican nurses who can speak Spanish and communicate with the sizeable Latino patient population. Most of these nurses have a four-year nursing degree, the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in nursing.

One barrier the nurses face is learning enough English to work in a United States hospital. However, advocates for recruiting Mexican nurses say that these nurses could help fill the need for bilingual and bicultural medical workers. Additionally, the move could bolster California's acute shortage of registered nurses. In the state, the number of RNs per capita is the lowest in the country; reports show California as having 622 nurses for every 100,000 residents, compared with the national average of 787.

Source: The Paramus Post

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