In this episode, Mr. Amil Kusain Perez Tan, an assistant director of nursing and doctoral student, talks with Dr. Franklin Shaffer, president and chief executive officer of CGFNS International, an immigration-neutral, nonprofit-organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which helps foreign-educated healthcare professionals live and work in their country of choice by assessing and validating their academic and professional credentials. Dr. Shaffer discusses his decision to pursue nursing as a career at a time when the nursing profession was predominantly a woman’s profession, and his ongoing work as a prominent nurse leader. He also provides insight surrounding the similarities and differences in the workplace between male and female nurses, as well as diversity among foreign nurses, stating he believes at the soul of every nurse, nurses are more similar than they are different.

Franklin A. Shaffer, EdD, RN, FAAN, is the President and Chief Executive Officer, CGFNS International, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He earned his doctorate in nursing administration and nursing education at Columbia University and has 50 years of progressive and varied nursing experience which includes administration, education, clinical and research. His recent work includes the National Nursing Assessment Service project which provides a leading-edge technology-based assessment system to evaluate the credentials of foreign-educated nurses seeking licensure across provinces in Canada. Dr. Shaffer is also a principle investigator for the International Labor Organization’s Decent Work Across Borders Initiative, focusing on comparative analyses of nursing education and migration issues involving Denmark, Finland, India, Norway and the Philippines.

CGFNS International is an immigration-neutral nonprofit-organization that helps foreign-educated healthcare professionals live and work in their country of choice by assessing and validating their academic and professional credentials. The group provides foreign students and healthcare professionals with a comprehensive assessment of their academic records to facilitate their successful admission to schools in the United States and other countries.

Mr. Amil Kusain Perez Tan, MSN, RN, is assistant director of nursing at the Riverside Premiere Rehabilitation and Healing Center in Manhattan, New York, and is a PhD nursing student at The Graduate Center City University of New York. Amil has an extensive clinical knowledge and nursing work experiences from the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, and Europe prior to coming to the United States. Amil’s research interests include long-term care, geriatrics, palliative care, and improving health systems. As a clinician, Amil’s mission is to provide patients with quality, compassionate, holistic and competent care. Amil loves to travel, and has visited 27 countries and speaks four languages.

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