Nurses and Borderless Mobility : Challenges for Nurses
One of the attempts to facilitate labour mobility within the AEC is to develop mutual recognition of professional agreement4. The mutual recognition agreement involves 7 professions namely engineering, architecture, surveying, medicine, dentistry, accountancy and nursing. It is clear that most of ASEAN members are now, in some degree, suffering from nursing shortage.5 Although, the Mutual Recognition Arrangement could be the ideal opportunity to solve nursing shortage, it could conversely harm the nursing systems of those countries. However, Saowaruj3 believes not much will be changed by 2015.The biggest myth about the AEC is that there will be free flow of labour. But to this point it is only highly skilled labour that can move, and it isn t that free. However, despite of the mutual recognition, there are still challenges for ASEAN nurses.