I support the petition to use "nurse applicant" and not "foreign nurse graduate" for nurses who wish to practice in the US after passing the licensing requirements and examination.  The use of the tag of Foreign Nurse Graduate has no purpose but to subject the nurse to questions and doubts about the educational preparation of the nurse by his/her country of origin.  Nurse graduates of nursing schools in the Philippines undergo the same rigorous screening for graduation and practice as RN's.  Additional screening and requirement are done by the CGFNS and individual state before the nurse graduate can sit for examination given by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN).  There is a move by US nursing education accreditation boards to accredit foreign nursing schools using the same standards as that of schools in the US.  This shows that educational preparation of foreign nursing schools are recognized as comparable to that of the US.  Thank you.

Roseminda Santee, DNP, MA, RN, NEA-BC, CNE, ANEF