title: Pulling the plug on brain-drain: understanding international migration of nurses.
abstract: The reliance on foreign nurses is symptomatic of ineffective staffing practices affecting health care professionals, particularly nurses, in the United States and other industrialized nations. This demonstrates a failure to alleviate the nursing shortage. The influx of foreign nurses (brain-drain) has serious ramifications that should be explored fully.
authors.affiliation: Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA. SloteRN@gmail.com
authors.forename: Richard J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Slote
mesh_terms: D003906:Developing Countries; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005551:Foreign Professional Personnel; D005869:Ghana; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D009729:Nursing; D011640:Public Policy; D012940:Social Problems; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce