Kentucky Nurse Forced To Leave U.S.A. Due To Homeland Security

[Roland99]

http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=2436518&nav=0RZES3Ba

(LOUISVILLE, Ky., October 15th, 2004, 5:30 p.m.) -- Our nation's tightened Homeland Security is meant to keep terrorists out but it's also throwing out some health care proffessionals. One local nurse who moved here from Canada is now being told to leave. As WAVE 3's Justin Wilfon reports, she has to do it quickly.

<...>

"There's a new visa screening process for health care workers," Theobald told WAVE 3 News.

Those new requirements went into effect months after she began working at Kosair Children's Hospital. But now, the government says she must leave until she can complete the new screening.

"I think it's ridiculous because I've been working here the past year and I do have a nursing license in Kentucky," said Theobald.

She says the new requirements can take up to a year to complete.

[unblock]

1. shrub: keeping america safe from terrapists

[NVMojo]

2. this administration is out of touch with reality

and out of control. THREE MORE WEEKS!!!

[serryjw]

3. Can we screen the cargo and ports first?

Just an idea? What do you think?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. I am afraid I must agree.

Too many people from Soviet Canuckistan are here already. Too many more and you will find restaurants selling that Weapon of Mass Waistline Destruction, that uniquely Canuckistani food group:

Poutine.

Consider yourselves fairly warned. You have nothing to lose but your svelte figure. ;-)

[sam sarrha]

5. Fucking ignorant Nazi Bastards, they also deported our Buddhist Monk

after they messed up his Visa, Tom Ridges ASSistant., personally fucked it up... he was an attendant to the Dalai Lama recipient of the NOBEL Peace Prize. he was arrested traveling with the Abbot of the Dalai Lama's Monastery. Dumb Fucking Nazi's

That is a basic difference between the Reich Winger RepugNUTS and the Democrats... the RepugNUTS don't give a fuck for anyone/everyone they can abuse or trash...there was no reason they couldn't give her the paper work and let her fill it out, it being an Ex Post Facto situation.. that is in the Constitution for which they don't give a flying fuck about. those shits dont need Viagra get a permanent hard on doing this crap to people who cant fight back.

[Roland99]

6. Come on fellas...it's not like we have a nursing shortage on our hands...

Oh wait....

[Philostopher]

7. Yeah, and it's not like every decent nursing program available

isn't booked up for at least a year and a half or two years waiting to get students in.

Oh, wait ...

[blueknight]

8. my fiance'

is a professor of nursing. she said she has the largest classes she has had in her 15 years of teaching

[Philostopher]

10. I know most of the nursing programs around here are

at least 18 months out on waiting lists now. We have a teaching hospital near us, they have one of the better RN/LPN and medical assistant programs -- they're all booked up for two years, according to the articles I read in the local paper.

Most are more like 24 to 36 months. And I'm guessing these are just RN/LPN programs -- but you have to complete one or the other to go on to an associates degree, specialized (like respiratory therapy or physical therapy) or bachelor of science program, so the clog at entry is gumming up the whole works.

[FreakinDJ]

9. As usual Bush policies hurt Americans not Terrorist

We lost the war on terrorism when we first began to give up our rights

our economic advantages

our place as a world leader of intelligence and compassion

Let's face it...Bush lost the war on terror a long time ago

[Heath.Hunnicutt]

11. How do we know these Canadian "nurses" aren't from a 3rd world country???

I mean: huh?

[FreakinDJ]

12. So what if they are..?

You going to tell me some 105lb Philippine nurse could be a threat to this country.

More then the WIDE OPEN BOARDER TO THE SOUTH....................

Shit Fidel Castro himself could waltz across that boarder with a nuke strapped to his back and you have the fore sight to deem a 105lb asian nurse as a risk

Gimme a break

get a brain

[Heath.Hunnicutt]

13. didn't get the joke?

Did you miss that part of the debate, when Bush said we had know way of knowing whether US druges reimported from Canada are from the 3rd world or not? It was funny, and reminds me of this stupid decision.

[Roland99]

14. I got it.

;)

[DemFromMem]

15. The truth on the nursing shortage

I'm an immigration lawyer and work with a lot of health care employers. Demand has never been greater for nurses from abroad because the shortage in nurses is growing at an alarming pace. There are varying figures from the big think tanks out there, but most are saying that by the end of this decade, we will be short anywhere from 400,000 to 500,000 nurses. That number is expected to grow to as much as a million by 2020. What is this Administration doing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Cero. In fact, they've imposed more hurdles in the way of bringing in nurses from abroad. And they've done virtually nothing to raise the supply of American nurses.

Ask people who work in hospitals how much more dangerous it is to be hospitalized today because of the nursing shortage.

[Heath.Hunnicutt]

16. I have heard this is a major factor in the rise in health care costs

I heard from a Republican voter that nursing costs are so high now that this is a major component of hospitalization charges. I have no idea, myself. Do you?

[DemFromMem]

17. The physician shortage is probably even more of a factor

The doctor shortage is even more frightening largely because it is harder to get medical schools opened (we have not opened a new medical school in this country in more than two decades) and expanding the size of existing classes is not easy to do either.

But add greedy insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies charging a fortune. Malpractice awards are not going up, but, yes, they constitute a small part of the problem.

Bush has done nothing to address any of these factors so, voila, we're in a crisis.