Effects of nurse migration on the source country
One of the most obvious and favorable effects of nurse migration on the source country, especially in developing nations, is the considerable money sent home from nurses abroad each year. Some of the developed recipient countries boast that the remittances overseas sent back by migrant nurses provide much needed financial support to the source countries [8]. The WHO estimated that overseas healthcare workers sent approximately $70 billion to their source countries in 1995 [8]. Unfortunately, however, much of the money is not reinvested back into the healthcare system