Overseas Clergy- A blessing or exploitation? (Main Forum)

by kaythegardener, OREGON, USA, Monday, May 28, 2012, 00:30 (357 days ago) @ Gail

Could it be similar to the "shortage of nurses" in the USA in the 1980s?? Thousands were leaving the nursing field due to poor working conditions or "burnout".
So lots of foreign trained nurses were admitted under newly expanded limits for 'professional classes' of immigrants. At the same time, there were numerous strikes by the locals against hospitals, many of whom had merged into 'bean-counting (financially ruthless) souless corporations'.
So the nurses in some areas, especially California, pushed for state laws mandating minimun nurse-patient ratios to preserve adequate medical care levels. These were seen by these medical giants as unwarrented govt interference in their businesses...
Working conditions gradually turned around, pay levels rose, many new locals (including 2nd generations of these immigrants) took up nursing & the shortages eased...Wonder why that was??

Overlooked was the decades long decline in candidates coming from traditionally "medical families" (relatives being doctors or nurses). Actually this loss was part of the post WWII trend in all fields of the majority of workers being the first in their families to enter a given job category. Now candidates were evaluated on their own fitness for the proposed work, not because of their family traditions...

Doesn't this sound similar to the plaint of church officials in the Western world--"no one is encouraging their children to join the religious life anymore"...
& with the remedy right under their noses--perhaps God ALSO is inspiring replacement NON- TRADITIONAL CANDIDATES for religious life?