Question #14:  What is the VisaScreen certificate?

Carl Shusterman:  The VisaScreen is a certification by the ICHP that the nurse is proficient in written and spoken English, that her license and educational certificates are authentic and that her competency is equivalent to that of a nurse who was born and trained in the US.

Although nurses who received their education in English in the US, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, or South Africa are exempt from the English requirement, no foreign-born nurses are exempt from the credentialing requirements, even if they were educated in the United States.

In other words, the law requires foreign born US-educated nurses to pay a private organization $325 to assure the government that their US education is equivalent to a US education!!!!!

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