The Philippines nursing programs are based on US Models; however in Mexico it is different with students being trained to work in Mexico...and may not be up to all US standards...BD
Potentially, an unlimited number of Mexican nurses could work in the United States under a special provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement, but few are trying, and only a small portion of those have been successful. Their biggest hurdle: English. Though thousands have four-year nursing degrees – the equivalent to a U.S. bachelor of science in nursing – the great majority lack the language proficiency in English to work at U.S. hospitals.
An infusion of Mexican nurses also could help alleviate a particularly acute shortage of registered nurses in California, where the number of RNs per capita is the lowest in the United States, advocates say. One study shows California with 622 nurses for every 100,000 residents, compared with the national average of 787. Before they can work in the United States, all foreign nurses face a lengthy screening process that includes evaluation of their nursing credentials by state nursing boards or the nonprofit Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools, based in Philadelphia.
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