When We Make It Harder for Immigrant Nurses to Practice — We Are Not Just Failing Them. We Are Failing Each Other (with Lulette Infante MSN, RN-BC, CPHQ)

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Lulette Infante arrived in New York City from Manila at 18 with two suitcases and three younger siblings to help raise. Thirty years later, she's a nurse informatics leader, and she's sounding an alarm about what immigration enforcement is doing to patients, to the nursing workforce, and to the care pipeline every American will eventually depend on.

In this episode of the Love n' Leary Nursing Podcast, hosts Marion Leary and Rebecca Love talk with Infante about her 25 years in pediatric hematology/oncology and ambulatory care, the LinkedIn post that resonated across nursing, patients who are now too frightened to show up for chemotherapy, and the history of Filipino nurses in the U.S. health care workforce. 

Plus: why she believes advocacy doesn't require being the loudest voice in the room, and what nurses can do on their very next shift. 

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Timestamps

• 00:58: Meet Lulette Infante MSN, RN-BC, CPHQ
• 07:57: The article and the LinkedIn post that started it
• 10:44: Thirty years in: what it feels like now
• 16:34: The American dream, immigration policy, and the nursing pipeline
• 22:18: The history of Filipino nurses in the U.S. workforce
• 28:56: Closing thoughts and Lulette's LinkedIn quote

Mentioned in this episode

• Infante's LinkedIn Post
• Nursing, Immigration, and Peace & Power by Patricia Regalado 
• American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA)
• Association of California Nurse Leaders (ACNL)
• Center for Nursing Value fellowship

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