According to an NPR report, administrators at Billings Clinic in Montana have contracts with two dozen international nurses and are one of "scores" of hospitals across the country bringing in nurses from other nations to address staffing matters, including retirements.
The report declares that a backlog of over 5,000 international nurses are waiting from nations like Ghana, Thailand, and the Philippines to be cleared to obtain visa approval to work in U.S. hospitals.
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"We are seeing an absolute boom in requests for international nurses," Lesley Hamilton-Powers, a board member of AAIHR and a Vice President for Avant Healthcare Professionals in Florida, announced.
The push for more international nurses comes as thousands of nurses and healthcare workers across the nation are losing their hospital jobs over Coronavirus vaccine needs.
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Minnesota's Mayo Clinic recently released 700 unvaccinated employees who did not submit to Coronavirus vaccines. More than 500 healthcare workers have been fired in Massachusetts for disobeying vaccine mandates and more than 30,000 healthcare workers in New York have been fired.
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"We worked so hard last year," Jennifer Bridges, a Texas nurse released in November over vaccine requirements, told Fox News's Sean Hannity. "I mean, we were there through thick and thin when we had no help… It was horrible. And these people that are putting forth these rules right now for us and kicking us to the curb, they weren't there. They weren't even in the building to be seen for months. They were staying at home while we were doing all the work."
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Though even as the justices debated some pretty dry-sounding statutory and procedural issues, the pandemic itself crept unilaterally into the courtroom. Two of the lawyers fighting the Biden Administration rules made their argument through the telephone because they both have COVID, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a lifelong diabetic, was not in the courtroom, choosing to rather participate from her chambers.
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The vaccine-or-test regulation was issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; it was enacted under Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce, a target of many current court Conservatives. The statute enables the agency to issue emergency rules when it deems them "necessary" to defend workers from a "grave danger."
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The Biden Administration announced that under the 1970 Occupational Safety and Health statute, it was obligated to act. After all, COVID-19 has already claimed over 800,000 lives in the United States and sickened 50 million more, many with ongoing consequences.
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