Additional protections have also been added. For instance. an amendment by JOHN CONYERS was adopted at the Judiciary Committee providing that HiC nurses can not comprise more than 33% of a hospitals workforce of registered nurses and that a hospital can not contract out HiC nurses to work at another facility. Our goal should be that set out by the Immigration Nursing Relief Advisory Committee. created by the Immigration Nursing Relief Act of 1989. We need to "balance both the continuing need for foreign nurses in certain specialties and localities for which their are not adequate domestic registered nurses and the need to continue to lessen employers dependence on foreign registered nurses and protect the wages and working conditions of U.S. registered nurses." I believe this bill successfully balances both these needs. Because it is so narrowly drafted. it is not opposed by the American Nurses Association. The bill contains one modification from the version reported by the Judiciary Committee. The bill now provides a limited exemption from section 212(a)(5)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. That section provides for a certification process for aliens seeking to enter the United States to work as nonphysician health care workers. The section is designed to ensure that the credentials of alien health care workers are authentic and that they have sufficient training and English language ability to adequately perform their jobs.
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