US Nursing Shortage

With the U.S. facing a projected shortage of 600,000 nurses by 2020 a cutback in the supply of Filipino and Indian RNs takes on added significance. And the cutback in visas follows a recent report by prominent health care researcher Peter Buerhaus that shows American hospitals increasingly rely on foreign-born RNs. The number of foreign RNs working in the U.S. rose by 12.5% during the past two, accounting for nearly one-third of the total growth of RN employment in the U.S. nurse labor market.