Inspired by the #Decolonise Global Health movement which scandalized the unequal distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, this paper embarks on a time- and space-diagnostic journey exploring nursing. In three steps the paper analyses care extractivism, starting with the history of nursing in former colonies, followed by the new international division of reproductive labour, and persisting patterns of (de)valuing and stereotyping of nurses in Global Care Chains. Finally, it delves paradigmatically into the recruitment and migration of nurses from Ghana and from India to the Global North. Throughout, professional nursing is considered a neuralgic axis of health care at the interface of the racial logic of (post)colonial power, and the capitalist logic of commodification and profit making. Establishing structures of an imperial mode of social reproduction, post-colonial and capitalist inequalities between the Global South and the Global North get deepened by Global Care Chains in terms of recruitment and import of nurses. While these are deemed to be the solution for the chronic shortage of nurses in the health care systems of OECD countries, they are once again shaped by the colonial and capitalist power matrix.