Alva Review-Courier -

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Pamela Thompson, a recruiter at Adventist Health Bakersfield in California, made seven job offers to foreign nurses in February and just finished a first round of interviews with 12 more candidates. They are from all over the world, including the United Kingdom, Philippines, Australia and Malaysia.

The international candidates fill the private hospital's critical need for experienced nurses who can work in emergency rooms and intensive care units, Thompson said — jobs that can't be met only with U.S. nurses, many of whom are recent graduates.

That need could go unfilled, howev...