Recruiting Nevada has never had an aversion to foreign nurses. But we never could assemble a business case to support it. So, we never incorporated a foreign nurse recruitment strategy into our overall plan. Several reasons warranted this:
- We have no experience in foreign recruitment
- We are not a staffing agency, and this model falls more in line with agency work
- We know we can effectively market Las Vegas as a relocation destination to American nurses and achieve great success
- We are uncertain what problems the language barriers create in the overall delivery of care
- Our preliminary talks with clients showed an 18 month average conversion with a 50-75% fall-out from time of interest to time of employment.
So, we stuck to our core competency….marketing Las Vegas and Nevada as the greatest place to live, work and nurse. Our solution provides over leads annually of health care professionals who opted-in and expressed an interest in wanting to relocate to Nevada.
Come to find out, the biggest problem has been the language barriers. LasVegasSun.com, a sister website of recruitingnevada.com, recently published an article going into the details of the issue. It can be read here - “Foreign nurses can slip into communications gap.”
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