Georgia Nurses Association Commission on Nursing Practice: Position Paper on Health Care Workplace Planning and the Recruitment of Foreign Educated Nurses, Adopted at the 2001 GNA House of Delegates (Ingna: Workforce Advocacy‪)‬

The Georgia Nurses Association (GNA) recognizes and supports the fundamental right of individuals to move, migrate and change jobs, and believes that there is tremendous value in the exchange of ideas and cultural understanding that can result from migration. At the same time, GNA agrees with the International Council of Nurses (ICN) position statement Nurse Retention, Transfer and Migration in recognizing the possible adverse effect that international migration may have on health care quality. GNA joins the American Nurses Association (ANA) and ICN in condemning the practice of recruiting nurses to countries where authorities have failed to address human resource planning and problems which cause nurses to leave the profession and discourages them from returning. GNA endorses a combined approach of workplace advocacy and long term human resource planning as the methods of choice for addressing shortage issues.