Comments on: Nursing crisis looms over Iowa http://iowaindependent.com/14658/nursing-crisis-looms-over-iowa Iowa politics, news, and commentary Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:46:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: CityTrauma http://iowaindependent.com/14658/nursing-crisis-looms-over-iowa/comment-page-1#comment-19501 CityTrauma Wed, 06 May 2009 06:05:37 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=14658#comment-19501 IMedcareprovider, you are wrong! I'm a registered nurse and the answer is NOT to allow MORE foreign trained RN's into the US to work. It is to train more professors and PAY THEM MORE to teach the nursing students that are here in our own country! Nursing students all over this country cannot get into programs because there are not enough professors to teach. One reason for this is a nursing professor with a masters degree can make and I am giving the higher end of the scale here, $60k per year. A law professor makes well over 100k per year. Big difference and there should NOT be.<br><br>This country needs to take care of its OWN PEOPLE and give them jobs and get them into schools before they start allowing foreign trained nurses to come in and take their jobs!<br>Foreign nurses is the very last resort! IMedcareprovider, you are wrong! I'm a registered nurse and the answer is NOT to allow MORE foreign trained RN's into the US to work. It is to train more professors and PAY THEM MORE to teach the nursing students that are here in our own country! Nursing students all over this country cannot get into programs because there are not enough professors to teach. One reason for this is a nursing professor with a masters degree can make and I am giving the higher end of the scale here, $60k per year. A law professor makes well over 100k per year. Big difference and there should NOT be.

This country needs to take care of its OWN PEOPLE and give them jobs and get them into schools before they start allowing foreign trained nurses to come in and take their jobs!
Foreign nurses is the very last resort!

]]> By: CityTrauma http://iowaindependent.com/14658/nursing-crisis-looms-over-iowa/comment-page-1#comment-16771 CityTrauma Wed, 06 May 2009 04:05:37 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=14658#comment-16771 I'm sorry Medcarprovider, but you are wrong! I'm a registered nurse and the answer is NOT to allow MORE foreign trained RN's into the US to work. It is to train more professors and PAY THEM MORE to teach the nursing students that are here in our own country! Nursing students all over this country cannot get into programs because there are not enough professors to teach. One reason for this is a nursing professor with a masters degree can make and I am giving the higher end of the scale here, $60k per year. A law professor makes well over 100k per year. Big difference. <br><br>This country needs to take care of it's OWN PEOPLE and give it's OWN PEOPLE jobs and get them into schools before they start allowing foreign trained nurses to come in and take their jobs!<br>Foreign nurses is the very last resort! I'm sorry Medcarprovider, but you are wrong! I'm a registered nurse and the answer is NOT to allow MORE foreign trained RN's into the US to work. It is to train more professors and PAY THEM MORE to teach the nursing students that are here in our own country! Nursing students all over this country cannot get into programs because there are not enough professors to teach. One reason for this is a nursing professor with a masters degree can make and I am giving the higher end of the scale here, $60k per year. A law professor makes well over 100k per year. Big difference.

This country needs to take care of it's OWN PEOPLE and give it's OWN PEOPLE jobs and get them into schools before they start allowing foreign trained nurses to come in and take their jobs!
Foreign nurses is the very last resort!

]]> By: MedCareProvider http://iowaindependent.com/14658/nursing-crisis-looms-over-iowa/comment-page-1#comment-16765 MedCareProvider Tue, 05 May 2009 16:38:22 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=14658#comment-16765 We believe at <a href="http://www.medcareprovider.com/nurse-transfer.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.medcareprovider.com/nurse-transfer.htm</a> that ---- Putting extra money in different projects ---- is not the ultimate solution to meet the immediate demand of NURSES or DOCTORS.<br><br>We need to allow more work visa for foreign nurses while we educate locally to meet the demand for future. <br><br>REMEMBER: - BABY BOOMER ARE NOT GETTING YOUNGER AND EFTER RESESSION - DEMAND IS GOING TO COME LIKE AN AVALANCHE. We believe at http://www.medcareprovider.com/nurse-transfer.htm that —- Putting extra money in different projects —- is not the ultimate solution to meet the immediate demand of NURSES or DOCTORS.

We need to allow more work visa for foreign nurses while we educate locally to meet the demand for future.

REMEMBER: – BABY BOOMER ARE NOT GETTING YOUNGER AND EFTER RESESSION – DEMAND IS GOING TO COME LIKE AN AVALANCHE.

]]> By: commoniowan http://iowaindependent.com/14658/nursing-crisis-looms-over-iowa/comment-page-1#comment-16737 commoniowan Mon, 04 May 2009 14:38:17 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=14658#comment-16737 The answer is forgivable loans and better pay.<br><br>My wife is a nurse and could have made $10,000 to $15,000 a year in Kansas City, Minneapolis, or Chicago. She would get postcards in the mail monthly from hospitals there recruiting her and advertising signing bonuses.<br><br>We didn't have any student loans and decided to stay in Iowa to be closer to family. The answer is forgivable loans and better pay.

My wife is a nurse and could have made $10,000 to $15,000 a year in Kansas City, Minneapolis, or Chicago. She would get postcards in the mail monthly from hospitals there recruiting her and advertising signing bonuses.

We didn't have any student loans and decided to stay in Iowa to be closer to family.

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