Patrick Scoggin, BSN, RN
Director of Nursing
Patrick supports clinical readiness and helps align nurse preparation with the expectations of US healthcare teams.
Nursing leadership team
Experienced nurses, inside the process
Nurse-ledpreparation forUS practice.
Global MedTeam helps internationally educated nurses move into long-term, direct-hire roles in the United States.
Our Nursing Leadership Team brings experienced nurses into that process so candidates are prepared for more than paperwork. The team helps nurses understand how US care teams communicate, how patient concerns are escalated, how documentation is handled, and how workplace culture may feel different from home.
For nurses, that means fewer surprises and more confidence. For healthcare employers, it means a stronger start for every direct-hire nurse they welcome.
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Why this team exists
The move to US nursing asks a lot.
Licensure, credentialing, immigration steps, relocation, and family planning often happen at the same time. Once a nurse enters the workplace, there is another layer: learning the rhythm of US clinical practice.
The Nursing Leadership Team helps Global MedTeam bring these conversations forward earlier in the process, so nurses can arrive with a clearer understanding of what is ahead.
That is where real questions come up
The questions nurses actually ask.
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How should I communicate with physicians and charge nurses?
(02)
When should I escalate a patient concern?
(03)
What will documentation expectations look like?
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How do I speak up clearly in a new unit?
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How should I handle patient and family communication?
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What may feel different about team culture, leadership style, and daily clinical expectations?
What the team helps shape
Preparation, before the first shift.
The Nursing Leadership Team works with Global MedTeam to strengthen how nurses are prepared before they enter US practice. Their input helps shape guidance, resources, and preparation across key areas of the nurse pathway.
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Clinical readiness
The team helps nurses understand expectations around patient safety, documentation, escalation, care coordination, and communication with the broader care team.
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Workplace communication
The team helps nurses prepare for the direct, team-based communication style common in US healthcare settings.
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Documentation and escalation
The team helps nurses understand how documentation, reporting, and escalation habits may differ from what they have experienced in other healthcare systems.
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Cultural preparation
The team helps nurses prepare for differences in patient interaction, family communication, workplace norms, and leadership expectations in the United States.
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Nurse confidence
The team gives nurses access to guidance shaped by people who understand the clinical environment, the pressure of transition, and the courage it takes to begin again in a new country.
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Program improvement
The team brings frontline nursing perspective into Global MedTeam's nurse resources, preparation materials, and transition planning.
Guidance from people who know the work
Every nurse starts from a different place.
The Nursing Leadership Team brings together nurses with different clinical backgrounds, nationalities, and lived experiences. A nurse from the Philippines, Latin America, India, the Middle East, Africa, or another region may have different questions, concerns, and assumptions about US practice.
The team helps Global MedTeam listen more closely and prepare nurses with better context. They also help us understand where nurses may feel uncertain, where employers may need clearer communication, and where the overall preparation process can be stronger.
What this means
A clinical voice, on both sides of the hire.
For internationally educated nurses
The Nursing Leadership Team adds a real clinical voice to the Global MedTeam process. It helps nurses prepare for:
- US clinical expectations
- Communication with physicians, charge nurses, managers, patients, and families
- Documentation and escalation habits
- Cultural differences in the workplace
- Confidence during onboarding
- Adjustment to a new healthcare system
- Long-term success in a direct-hire nursing role
A nurse should arrive with more than a job offer. They should arrive with a clear understanding of the work, the culture, the expectations, and the people available to guide them.
Global MedTeam’s broader nurse pathway is built around direct-hire opportunities, no recruitment fees for nurses, licensing and credentialing guidance, immigration coordination, relocation planning, and ongoing support. The Nursing Leadership Team strengthens that pathway with practical nursing insight.
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Nurse readiness affects onboarding, retention, team trust, and patient care. Global MedTeam’s Nursing Leadership Team helps strengthen the preparation behind each nurse’s move to the United States. That gives employers direct-hire nurses who have been supported beyond recruitment and paperwork.
This can create a smoother start for nurse managers, HR teams, unit leaders, preceptors, international nurses, and their families.
When nurses understand expectations earlier, they can settle faster, communicate more clearly, and build trust with the teams they join.
See the full journey →A stronger path into US nursing
Nurses who feel prepared are more likely to settle well, grow in their role, and build a future around the career they worked hard for.
Global MedTeam supports internationally educated nurses through recruitment, licensing, credentialing, immigration coordination, relocation, and ongoing transition support. The Nursing Leadership Team strengthens that pathway with real nursing experience, connecting what nurses already know with what they need to understand for safe, confident, and successful practice in the United States.
Meet the nursing leaders
Nurses you can name.
Michael Moorhead, RN, MHA
Chief Nursing Officer
Michael brings extensive regulatory expertise and helps ensure GMT's initiatives remain compliant, practical, and effective.
Ellen Lenkevich, MHA, RN
Former CNO, Geisinger
Ellen brings a hospital leadership perspective and helps shape initiatives that support international nurses while meeting client needs.
Maria Emee Nisnisan, BSN, RN
Practice Administrator
Emee brings lived experience as an internationally educated nurse and helps shape practical support for nurses preparing for US practice.
Sarah Conclara
Nursing Leadership Team
Sarah brings the perspective of a Philippines-based RN and helps GMT navigate cultural dynamics and communicate effectively across cultures.
Preparing for the move to US nursing?
Global MedTeam helps internationally educated nurses pursue long-term, direct-hire nursing careers in the United States with guidance across application, hospital matching, licensing, visa coordination, relocation, and settling in. Our Nursing Leadership Team adds nurse-led preparation so the move feels clearer, more practical, and grounded in real clinical life.
Building a long-term nurse pipeline?
Global MedTeam helps healthcare employers hire internationally educated nurses through a direct-hire model, with clinical, cultural, licensing, immigration coordination, and relocation support built into the process.