Italy trains nurses, but it is Europe that recruits them - and it does so ever earlier and ever faster. According to an investigation by Nursing Up, foreign countries no longer wait for graduation but target nursing students directly at university, turning Italian training into a pool for early recruitment.
A mechanism that in practice shifts abroad the value created in Italy: universities do the training, the national health service makes the investment, but it is foreign hospitals that reap the benefit of fully trained professionals.
