Nurses

BRITISH authorities have suspended the license of Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland to sponsor foreign students after they discovered that 150 Filipino nursing students there had been working almost full-time in violation of immigration regulations, the BBC has reported.

The third batch of 82 Filipino nurses will leave for Japan on May 30 to undergo intensive Japanese language training to further boost their chances of passing the country’s tough licensure examinations.

At least 2,300 Filipino nurses have refused to be evacuated even after the United Nations approved military strikes against Libya.

THERE are no jobs available for more than 160,000 registered nurses in the country, a Department of Health official said on Wednesday.

Nurses organizations in the country haves joined lawmakers in criticizing the practice of collecting fees from nursing students doing volunteer work in government and private hospitals.

THREE of the largest organizations of nurses in the Philippines joined legislators in eyeing to stop the volunteer nursing training program allegedly exploited by numerous private and government medical institutions.

Nursing dream fades for Filipinos as UK jobs dry up Tony Blair’s NHS boost prompted a wave of nurse training in the Philippines. But thousands have been left stranded Sarah Boseley: Health worker shortage needs to be addressed NHS hospital 50,000 nurses qualified in the Philippines last year. Many hope to work in the NHS,…

Nurse Salva (not his real name) is harried and hungry as he inspects a patient’s intravenous line in the surgical ward of a government hospital in Quezon City. It is almost 10 a.m. and doctors are winding up their rounds. He has been up since 4 a.m. but his exacting eight-hour work shift rarely gives…

CATARMAN, Northern Samar ,Philippines  – Siblings Danhill and May-ann Donoga have long acquired their licenses as nurses but jobs have been elusive for both of them.

Japan is making it easier for foreign nurses and caregivers to pass the licensure examinations, according to the Japanese embassy in Manila.

THE Philippine Nursing Association on Tuesday belittled the move of the country’s hospitals’ group not to accept nurse interns for on-the-job-training, saying it will not impair the nurses’ chances for employment.

THE major public and private hospitals have stopped providing on-the-job training to registered nurses following a disagreement over their internship fees, the Philippine Hospital Association said Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines –  The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has expressed disappointment over the hiring scheme for Filipino nurses and caregivers under the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).

MANILA, JANUARY 23, 2011 (STAR) By Sheila Crisostomo – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has expressed disappointment over the hiring scheme for Filipino nurses and caregivers under the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).

MANILA, Philippines—Only a day after it announced that it was recruiting nurses for rural health work, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) was swamped by more than 15,000 applicants, a labor official said Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines – Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chairman Dr. Patricia Licuanan said that CHED has no jurisdiction over hospitals that collect the OJT fees from nursing students. “Essentially, it should be the department of Health (that should look into it),” Licuanan told The STAR. “We have no authority over the hospitals at all,” she…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment(DOLE), in coordination with the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), started recruiting 10,000 registered  nurses for its “RN HEALS” program on Monday.

MANILA, Philippines—House leaders on Saturday called for an investigation into the pernicious practice of levying fees on registered nurses seeking on-the-job training with hospitals and medical institutions.

FOR DECADES, it signified a new version of the Filipino dream. It was not becoming a lawyer or a doctor that parents wished for their children: it was becoming a nurse. And thus nursing became the most popular course in colleges, with one nursing school after another sprouting to meet the boom. Perhaps because of…

THE Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday launched a project that will hire and deploy 10,000 volunteer registered nurses to poor areas in the country.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) will look into reports that Filipino nurses are paying hospitals to allow them to gain experience in order to work abroad.

MANILA, Philippines – More Filipino nurses are likely to pass Japan’s licensure examination and get employed in that country this year, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The government should look into the practice of hospitals that require registered nurses to pay for their training, a health workers group said Saturday.

YOKOHAMA, Japan—The Department of Trade and Industry and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Meti) will be holding a series of meetings to discuss ways to help foreign nurses, especially Filipinos, pass the Japanese nursing licensure examination.

YOKOHAMA – The Japanese government has sent a delegation to the Philippines to help Filipinos find jobs here as nurses and caregivers.

More than 25,000 Filipino student nurses now in the United Kingdom have benefited from a study and work program under the UK Borders and Immigration rules and many of these nurses have found opportunities which have allowed them to become permanent residents.

HANOI, Vietnam – Philippine road users and nurses stand to benefit from assistance from Japan following talks between President Benigno Aquino III and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan during the 17th summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

The Philippines has a surplus of nurses and it would be better if government encouraged their deployment abroad and discouraged the deployment of domestic helpers who are more prone to abuse, recommended the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP).

MANILA, Philippines—The number of Filipino nurses seeking jobs in the United States continues to decline, dropping by 38 percent in the third quarter, a prominent labor leader said Saturday.

Noting the oversupply of nurses in the country, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Tuesday said the demand for the occupation has been steadily declining over the years.