title: Overseas recruitment.
abstract: Recruiting nurses from overseas can be a solution for the acute staffing shortages experienced by nursing homes. But before accepting nursing home contracts, it is really important that they have a clear understanding of the values and skills required to work with older people and of the unique and privileged role that nurses fulfil in these settings.
authors.affiliation: Matron of a nursing home.
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Clay