CNO: International Nurse Recruitment Strategy

The international nurse recruitment landscape is shifting rapidly as new workforce data reveals accelerating domestic pipeline failures, emerging immigration policy volatility threatens established talent corridors, and cautionary evidence from the UK's National Health Service exposes the hidden retention crisis among migrant nurses that U.S. health systems are likely to replicate. This briefing synthesizes recent developments that change the strategic calculus for CNOs building or expanding international recruitment programs — moving beyond the familiar case for global hiring to address the second-order risks and emerging opportunities that will separate sustainable programs from costly failures.