International nursing migration, or the movement of people across international boundaries, has enormous implications for the discipline of nursing. This column focuses on ethical assumptions and possible implications for community change as individual or group. Discussion follows with the illumination of community change paradoxes, implications for policy development, nursing education, and nursing practice from the nursing theoretical perspective of the humanbecoming school of thought.
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