BusinessWeek‘s 4th article in its Immigration in the Recession series concerns the extreme shortage of nurses in the USA.  The article addresses that proponents of foreign nurse recruiting feel that the nurse shortage is negatively affecting patient health; that expanding into government-funded healthcare will escalate the situation. Other points of view assert that domestic nurses should be utilized and trained to put US workers back on the job; however, there is no such system in place for educating and training nurses on a mass scale in the USA to make a dent in the shortage that will only continue to increase with time.  This debate must culminate in nurse legislation being passed by Congress.