Nursing Career Requirements

Nursing career requirements in the US are inconvenient for students with previous educational experience and international medical graduates. Regardless of their educational credits from other colleges and universities, their previous medical knowledge and skills, besides the cultural diversity needed to take care of the growing minorities; these national and foreign nursing students face many barriers in their attempt to continue studying a professional health career in the US. One of the bigger obstacles has been supported by the private’s nursing schools, which are mostly for-profit rather than nonprofit institutions; and consistently reject academic credits previously earned by these students.
This transfer credits rejection problem also …show more content…
Those concerned about this problem, characterize it as snobbery and bias against nontraditional institutions, while many traditional academics say they are merely safeguarding their institution’s academic integrity” (Lederman, D., 2007). In other words, the director of these colleges and universities are wrong assuming that the other institutions are inferior or do not prepare student as it is required. Also, ignoring all evaluations and reviews of the accreditation commissions of the United States Department of Education that every college or university must pass to provide or include every single career program in their offers to their students. At the end the student and the taxpayers are the most affected by this judgment