HCTW news: Coalition aims for ethical treatment of foreign-educated nurses
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, September 18, 2008
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To support the fair treatment of foreign-trained nurses employed in the United States, a healthcare coalition has recently created an ethics code containing employment guidelines for medical institutions.
The coalition, which is made up of several healthcare groups including the American Nurses Association, reported that foreign-educated nurses are sometimes given jobs beneath their skill level or are not placed in the American facilities promised to them. These nurses may also receive lower pay than their American-trained colleagues. The code of ethics includes guidelines on these issues, as well as summaries of relevant employment laws and examples of ways hospitals can train and support nurses arriving from abroad.
Although the code will be voluntary, medical institutions who subscribe to it must agree to independent monitoring. Additionally, the code discourages U.S. institutions from recruiting nurses from countries already facing severe shortages of medical personnel, such as Zimbabwe.
Source:The Washington Post
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