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2000 News and Alerts Due to the age of these news items, information (including links) may be outdated. Please use the search feature at the top of the page to find more current information on the subject or to find a current link. MAY 1, 2000 CGFNS receives PES 1999 Grant Award The Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) was recently honored as one of seven national recipients of the Professional Examination Service’s (PES) 1999 Grant Awards. The PES grant will help support a forum hosted by CGFNS that will bring together specialty nursing organizations to discuss the impact of foreign-educated nurses with specialty credentials on U.S. workforce planning, trade and immigration policy. In general, foreign-educated nurses have historically filled gaps in U.S. nursing supply and demand, but to CGFNS’s knowledge, have not been systematically studied in terms of specialty practice. The availability of a sound database is paramount to understanding the role of foreign-educated nurses with specialty credentials in the United States registered nurse workforce. CGFNS anticipates that a healthy dialogue would occur at this forum regarding foreign-educated nurse specialty practice, credentialing and regulation, which would provide an opportunity to identify centralized information regarding specialty credentials of foreign-educated nurses. CGFNS plans on initiating a comparative database on nursing education and regulatory standards for foreign-educated nurses with specialties. The Commission also plans to publish a monograph that reports the findings and policy implications that result from the forum’s discussions. A date for the forum has not been set, yet. The Professional Examination Service is a non-profit testing organization whose mission is to promote the understanding and use of sound credentialing practices. PES achieves its mission by providing comprehensive services and making contributions to credentialing stakeholders in the areas of assessment practice, educational activities, scientific research and policy development. The PES Grant Awards Program was established in 1994. The program makes available grant awards to support credentialing stakeholders in educational or scientific activities that contribute significantly to the development, use, evaluation and enhancement of professional credentials. CGFNS is an immigration-neutral, nonprofit organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, and is an internationally recognized authority on education, registration and licensure of nurses worldwide. CGFNS’s mission is to provide responsible leadership in the delivery of relevant services to the global nursing and health care community. The organization was founded in 1977 through a collaborative effort by representatives from the U.S. Department of Labor; Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now the Department of Health and Human Services); the Immigration and Naturalization Service; and representation from nursing organizations, including the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. |
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