Migración internacional de enfermeras/os de América Latina 2010-2019

465 Migración internacional de enfermeras/os de América Latina 2010-2019 Immigrant registered nurses The US remains the primary destination country for migrant nurses. In 2016, of all foreign-born heal- th workers who practice in OECD countries, 45% of nurses practice in the US (Lafortune, Socha-Die- trich, & Vickstrom, 2019). This was nearly equal to all foreign-born highly-skilled people in OECD countries who were working in the US (41%). There was a 20% increase between 2011 and 2016 in the number of foreign-born nurses who migrated to destination counties. The US experienced an increase of more than 130,000 nurses between 2011 and 2016. Figure 1. Percent of immigrant registered nurses (n = 512,000) of health professionals and tech- nical occupations employed (16 years and older) (N = 9,628,000), 2018. Figure 1 is a color-coded map that represents the range of the percent of immigrant registered nur- ses in each state based on a total of more than five hundred thousand health professionals and technical occupations employed (16 years and older) in 2018 (Batalova, 2020). While several states (n = 11) did not report data on immigrant nurses, which could be due to small numbers, immigrant registered nurses are employed across the US, including Hawaii. Immigrant registered nurses re- presented at least 10% of all registered nurses in slightly more than one-third of the US (i.e., yellow and red shaded states). Another forty percent of the US had measurable immigrant registered nurse representation (i.e., orange shaded states)