Nurses

TOKYO, Japan – Three foreign nurses on Friday passed the Japanese nursing exam, the first to do so under Japan’s drive to attract Asians to help ease the nation’s severe shortage of nurses.

TOKYO – Japan may lift work visa restrictions for foreign nurses and dentists, to help care for its fast-ageing and shrinking population, the government said Monday.

BRAIN drain or the loss of skilled intellectual and technical employees has plagued government and private hospitals in the last two years, causing the permanent closure of 200 institutions across the country and the partial shut down of another 800.

Hundreds of Filipino student nurses taking short-term courses in the United Kingdom will be affected by the UK’s more stringent policy of cutting down the work load and training hours of foreign students.

The number of Filipinos who sought to enter America’s nursing profession plunged by 26 percent in 2009, according to the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines—As the United States still had to allow the massive influx of foreign nurses to its shores due to a severe lack of nurses, the number of Filipinos that sought to enter America’s nursing profession plunged by 26 percent in 2009, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) said in a statement Sunday.

HARLOW, Essex – Like Filipino nurses who leave the Philippines to find better job prospects elsewhere, UK’s home grown nurses are also leaving the country to seek opportunities abroad.

CEBU, Philippines – The Philippine Nurses Association of America assured Filipino nurses dreaming to work in the United States that talks are going on between nurse communities and senators in the US to include in their health care reform the end of visa retrogression.

CALIFORNIA, United States — The California Nurses Association (CNA) stepped into the national spotlight on the health care debate when the influential organization joined forces with two other nurses’ unions to form the alliance National Nurses United (NNU).

THE Commission on Higher Education yesterday warned 152 of the 456 nursing schools in the country to improve their students’ passing rates or face closure as more than 95,000 nursing graduates prepared for their licensing exams this weekend.

MANILA, Philippines— The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has asked the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to delay the implementation of its new test for foreign nurses seeking work there.

MANILA, Philippines – Fewer Filipino nurses are likely to get employed in Saudi Arabia in the coming months with the government there imposing stricter requirement for the hiring of foreign workers.

The number of Filipino nurses that indicated their desire to seek employment in America by taking that country’s nursing licensure examination plunged by 21.38 percent in the nine months to September this year, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) reported recently.

MANILA, Philippines—(UPDATE) The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines has urged the Commission on Higher Education to reveal the names of the 177 schools with substandard nursing education so that parents and nursing students may be guided accordingly.

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education was urged yesterday to identify the 177 substandard nursing schools nationwide.

SAYS RECRUIT CONSULTANT MANILA, Philippines—The closure of 177 nursing schools that have failed to pass a single graduate in the nursing licensure exams will address the glut of some half a million board passers in the country, recruitment consultant Emmanuel Geslani said in a statement Monday.

MANILA, Philippines – Fewer Filipino nurses are seeking employment in the United States, the country’s largest trade union reported yesterday.

Despite the global financial crisis that drove countries to hire more locals over foreign workers, hospitals in Jordan were still keen on hiring Filipino nurses, a hospital executive based there said. Amani Abdullah, nursing manager of Al-Essra Hospital in Jordan’s capital Amman, told The Manila Times that Filipino nurses were in demand in his country…

With its commitment to help uplift the overall health condition of Filipinos, GlaxoSmithKline Philippines (GSK) is sponsoring the deployment of 100 nurses in underserved municipalities under the government’s NARS (Nurses Assigned to Rural Service) Program. In the presence of President Arroyo, GSK president and managing director Roberto Taboada (left) signed the memorandum of agreement with…

AMID 400,000 JOBLESS NURSING GRADUATES FILIPINO nurses may opt to stay in the country to work as “digital medical butlers” for a medical knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) firm that will put up training facilities and a contact center to service clients abroad.

MANILA, Philippines – Nurses who cannot be employed overseas due to lack of working visas can now serve foreign patients through the world’s first borderless healthcare knowledge process outsourcing (kpo) here in the country.

MANILA, Philippines – Employment opportunities in the United States for Filipino nurses aspiring to work there appear to be drying up.

MANILA, Philippines—Congress should build up the Nurses Assigned in Rural Service (NARS) Project toward mobilizing a larger number of unemployed nurses, this time as village midwives, a lawmaker from Mindanao said.

FEWER Filipino nurses now want to work in the United States, because of the global recession, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino nurses are now shying away from the United States because of the prevailing financial crisis there.

Easier entry of RP garments also high on agenda   President Gloria Arroyo will ask American lawmakers to support pieces of US legislation that would make it easier for Filipino nurses and Philippine-made garments and textiles to enter the United States.

The Professional Regulatory Commission reported that 32,617 out of 77,901 passed the Nurse License Examination in various cities nationwide. The less than 50 percent passing rate is horrible as usual, a testament to the quality of local nursing education. It is probably safe to say that most of those who failed were duped by scam…

MANILA, Philippines—The country’s 1.3 million village health workers should be given the chance to train as midwives, nurses, doctors, and other health professionals, said Akbayan Representatives Risa Hontiveros and Walden Bello.

MANILA, Philippines – More jobs overseas await Filipino nurses and other professional workers, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) reported recently.

Public school teachers and nurses are bound to be shortchanged under the modified compensation and classification system for state workers embodied in Joint Resolution 26 already approved by the bicameral conference committee, Senator Pia Cayetano said yesterday.