Nursing Professions Mexico
In ancient times, the sick and the unwell were generally cared for in temples or other houses of worship, and this tradition continued until the early Christian era, when certain women of the Church would take up the care of the sick and the diseased people, and their services would sometimes be extended to their homes as well. These women of the Church had no real training at all, but they were experienced, and that is what mattered in those times. These were women who were extremely skilled in the use of various herbs and drugs, and they started to gain fame as 'physicians' in their era. In late years, nursing duties were undertaken by relatively uneducated and ignorant women, until the seventeenth century, when St. Vincent de Paul started to stress on the fact that these women must undertake some form of training if they were to nurse the sick and the ailing. (Nursing, Medicine)
It was in the year 1846 that a formal Training School for Nursing was established in Kaiserwerth, Germany. This is the Training School where Florence Nightingale underwent her training, and this in fact enabled her to establish her school for training nurses, rather than to nurse patients, and this was the St. Thomas Hospital in London. Soon similar schools were established in New York and Boston. Thereafter, nursing became a very important profession for women, until the beginnings of the 'feminist movement' during the early years of the 1950's and 1960's until, eventually, the late twentieth century saw the beginning of a shortage of nurses due to a variety of reasons, some of them being that their salaries were at a stagnant level, the workloads were increasing, and several different job opportunities for women were on the rise. Therefore, there were fewer numbers of enrolments for the nursing profession, and today, it stands at this level. (Nursing, Medicine)
In an Article by CBS News on the nursing profession, published in Mexico City on June 29, 2004, it has been stated that because of the shortage of nurses in the United States of America, the government of the U.S.A. has been sending various recruiters to Mexico and also to other poorer countries, so that the trained nurses from those parts of the world may be drafted into the nursing profession in the Unites States. The article goes on to state that this type of recruitment of nurses form outside may end up putting even more of a financial strain on the already strained situation of the problem of 'health care' in the developing world. In fact, the U.S. authorities have issued repeated warnings that the U.S.A. could fall short of about 275,000 nurses by the end of the year 2010, if the situation were not reversed immediately, and for the most part, this would probably be because of the additional strain and health care burden that the growing number of elderly people are placing on the situation. (Foreign Nurses sought to fill void)
However, recruiters from the U.S.A. have long ago found help from the Philippines, and here, the U.S.A. has already established schools with the purpose of training nurses so that they may be able to work in America when they finish their training. In a similar manner, the health care personnel from India, South Korea and Nigeria have also been looked at, and are in the process of being tapped for being sent to work in the United States of America. However, today, the primary focus is on the nurses in Mexico, who, if they were to work in America, would be of great help to the growing numbers of Hispanic population in the U.S. In fact, a Mexican nurse would not only understand and speak the same language of Latin Americans, but would also live in the same way as them, and this would be a huge advantage for the patient and for his family. Mexican nurses, if they were to work in America, would in fact be able to earn about ten times as much as they would normally earn in their own homeland, and this would be enough of an incentive for the Mexican nurses. As one nurse put it, "My motivation, more than anything, is economic," the nurse who would earn about $350 a month on the night shift in her home town.
Encouraged by the prospects in the United States, the nurse, Sanjuana Sanchez, has started o study English, so that she may be prepared for working in America when the time came. She also says, "My goal is to get to the United States...
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