kops, this is actually old news. 
It takes A LOT of nurses to keep a hospital running. The better
hospitals take care of patients AND their nurses by having a 'good'
nurse : patient ratio so that patients get the care and attention
they need for their holistic health, and nurses don't get burnt out
and over-stretched.
I think the 'best' place, in terms of salary, benefits and
remuneration, as well as professional development, is in the US.
That's where Nursing Research is well-established and new
developments spew forth. 
In fact, in the US, you'll find that there's a high percentage of
foreign nurses working there. Africa had a huge outflow of nurses
who left their country to work in the US, and the situation got so
bad that they actually wrote to the US govt asking them to please
stop taking in their nurses because there's a severe shortage back
home.
The US had a kind of quota system and early this year, they
announced that all nursing applicants who were born in China, The
Philippines and India, would be backdated two years, meaning,
nurses born from these countries who applied to work in the States
later than 2002, would have to face an up to five year wait for
their visas to be approved! 
This created a stir amongst the affected applicants, as well as
amongst the nurses and hospitals in the US, because they are badly
in need of foreign nurses to beef up their manpower.
Heard that the latest news is, they've lifted the restrictions
somewhat and modified the rules.
Still, the rule means that a Malaysian / Singaporean nurse would
find it much easier than the nurses born in those aforementioned
countries to get their green card. In fact, for nurses, her
immediate family gets the green card easily too!
The major obstacle would be to ensure that the NCLEX-RN, the
nursing licencing exams in the US, is cleared. And boy, that's ONE killer-whale of a hurdle! 
