The global impact of the nursing shortage.

the outflow of nurses to more affluent countries was a serious problem, worsening the shortage that already exists.” The Ghana Registered Nurses Association reported that in 2000, some 500 nurses left Ghana for higher pay in other countries. This is three times the number of nurses that left in 1999, and double the number of nurses that Ghana graduated in that same year. Reports from Europe are similar. The United Kingdom, where the government has implemented a policy of international recruitment, reports a shortage of 22,000 registered nurses. The exception to these reports appears to be the Pacific Rim countries of Hong Kong, Korea, China, and Taiwan. It is suspected that some countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have an adequate or surplus of nurses, but there is no data confirming this. There are some countries that educate nurses and other professionals for exportation. Implicit in this practice is an understanding that when a professional migrates to another country to work, they will send money back to the family in the home country as a means of supporting its economy. For example, since the 1970s, the Philippines has actively exported registered nurses to other countries, and more registered nurses are educated then can be employed. However, because of the global shortage of nurses, more Much has been written about the nursing shortage in America. According to the National Center