Why was CGFNS created?
During the late 1960s, the United States experienced a marked increase in the number of foreign-educated nurses migrating to the United States to practice nursing. U.S. immigration officials had a difficult time identifying which nurses who were educated abroad and who were applying for occupational visas met the requirements for licensure as registered nurses in the United States. The reality was that only a small percentage (about 15–20%) of foreign-educated nurses were passing the U.S. registered nurses licensing exam on their first attempt. After several government-funded studies and conferences were held on the issue of foreign-educated nurses seeking to practice in the United States, in 1977 the American Nurses Association (ANA) and the National League for Nursing (NLN) agreed to co-sponsor the establishment of a private, independent, non-profit organization as called for in one of the studies. The organization that was created was the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing S
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