Is hiring workers from other countries a good short-term solution to America's healthcare worker shortage?

The Healthcare workers that I have come in contact with are willing to work sixty hours or more and send their earnings to their families outside the U.S. making it harder for our citizens to compete.
Marilyn Higgins, HPAE Local 5000, NJ

It is a good temporary solution, but we also need to look into domestic problems that are affecting American workers from going into healthcare fields and/or staying in them. We need to start putting some money in the education of healthcare workers locally.
Lucia Ejiofor, HPAE Local 5089, NJ

We have enough healthcare professionals in our country to fill the available jobs. If the healthcare facilities would manage/budget their finances properly there would be enough money to pay our professional healthcare workers a fair and equitable salary.
Connie Deyman, HPAE Local 5094, NJ

If they do bring healthcare workers here, make sure they speak good English, patients gets very frustrated and they don't feel safe when they get healthcare workers who can't even speak good English, that includes pronounciation.
Grace Kabigting, HPAE MHBC, NJ

At this time, I don't see us as having any other choice. Our patient's needs are immediate! However, I have long thought that strong unions such as ours should be more involved on a national level with emphasizing the importance of education and training of local people.
Shirley Oki, HPAE Local 5094, NJ

No. I worked at a "for profit" hospital where the employer hired agency RNs from other countries to avoid paying contractual fair union wages. Management made a profit and quality patient care suffered as more and more agency nurses were hired instead of union nurses. These nurses were treated like indentured servants.
JoAnn Glover, HPAE Local 5091, NJ 

Absolutely not! It would not only take jobs away from Americans that need them, it would also suppress our wages!
Charlene White, Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals

Yes, clearly there is a shortage of nurses in America. Certain countries have established reputations as providers of quality nurses. These should be sponsored employments where the employer bears responsibility for the worker and where the worker is tracked to either return home when the visa is up or make a case for an extension.
Craig Mracek, HPAE, Local 5094, NJ