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‘Circular migration’ for OFWs in UK proposed

2010-03-10T09:07:00.000+08:00

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First Posted 10:05:00 03/07/2010
Filed Under: Migration, Travel & Commuting

MANILA, Philippines—The United Kingdom is proposing to allow Filipino skilled workers in the United Kingdom who are applying for UK citizenship to return to their home country without jeopardizing their application, the UK embassy here said in a news release.

The embassy cited a joint publication by the UK Border Agency and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office which contained the plan.

The publication, entitled “International Challenges, International solutions; Managing the movement of people and goods,” published an international action plan to strengthen the UK’s partnerships with agencies of other countries to further improve its migration policies.

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Exodus of health workers paves way for bilateral pacts

2010-03-05T11:56:00.000+08:00

By JENNY F. MANONGDO
March 3, 2010, 3:24pm
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Seeing no end to the outmigration of Filipino nurses and doctors, a former health secretary has taken steps to “tame the exodus” and achieve a win-win situation for both the Philippines and foreign countries employing our medical professionals.

For a number of years now, Dr. Jaime Galvez-Tan, former Department of Health (DoH) Secretary, has been working for partnerships among countries recruiting Filipino nurses and doctors.

Tan, who initiated an extensive study on the exodus of medical professionals and its effects in the Philippine healthcare system, has formulated ways to improve the situation by seeking bilateral agreements with receiving countries such as Canada, Finland and Australia, among others.

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NOVEMBER 2009 NURSING BOARD EXAM LIST OF SUCCESSFUL EXAMINEES

2010-02-01T08:25:00.000+08:00

Nursing Jan 31 2010

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37, 527 out of 94,462 Nursing Graduates Passed the November, 2009

2010-02-01T08:23:00.001+08:00

A total of 37, 527 out of 94,462 nursing graduates passed the November, 2009 licensure examination.

The examination was given by the Board of Nursing in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Butuan, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, La Union, Legazpi, Lucena, Pagadian, Pampanga, Sulu, Tacloban, Tuguegarao and Zamboanga last November 2009.

The oathtaking ceremony of the successful examinees in the said examination in Manila as well as the previous ones who have not taken their Oath of Professional will be held before the Board on Monday and Tuesday, March 8 and 9, 2010, with morning (8:00 A.M.) and afternoon (1:00 P.M.) sessions at the SMX Convention Center, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City. All must come in their white gala uniform, nurse’s cap, white duty shoes, without earrings, hair not touching the collar and without corsage.

The Professional Regulation Commission reminded those who will register are required to bring the following: duly accomplished Oath Form or Panunumpa ng Propesyonal, current Community Tax Certificate (cedula), 2 pieces passport size picture (colored with white background and complete name tag), 1 piece 1” x 1” picture (colored with white background and complete name tag), 2 sets of metered documentary stamps, and 1 short brown envelope with name and profession; and to pay the Initial Registration Fee of P600 and Annual Registration Fee of P450 for 2010-2013. Successful examinees should personally register and sign in the Roster of Registered Professionals.

Oathtaking tickets for the National Capital Region (NCR) and nearby regions will be available at the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) at 1663 F.T. Benitez Street, Malate, Manila, starting Monday, February 8, 2010 on a “first come first serve” basis.

November 2009 Nursing Board Exam TOP TEN

November 2009 Nursing Board Exam Result

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Japanese language a barrier for Indonesian and Filipino nurses

2010-01-27T16:43:00.002+08:00

The Japanese health ministry has rejected a plan to make it easier for Indonesian and Filipino nurses to qualify for work in Japan.

A 2008 Economic Partnership Agreement allows a number of Indonesian and Filipino nurses and caregivers to train and work in Japan. But the compulsory national exam and the level of language the overseas workers must pass is for most too difficult - no Indonesian nurses passed last year's exam.

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Pinoy nurses in Nevada help Haiti quake victims

2010-01-25T16:42:00.000+08:00

NEVADA – Hundreds of registered nursed (RN) from Nevada are volunteering their service and time to the victims of the Haiti earthquake.

Portia Fiesta is a Filipina nurse at the St. Rose San Martin Hospital. Fiesta is just one of the few nurses calling fellow RN's to volunteer for Haiti relief and ask for donations.

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Results for HongKong December 2009 Nursing Board Examination

2010-01-18T01:51:00.002+08:00

NLE Results - Dec 2009 - Hong Kong

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PRC Nursing Board Examination for 2010

2010-01-16T11:45:00.000+08:00

According to PRC Resolution No. 2009 - 537, the Nursing Board Exams for this year is set on:

July 3 - 4, 2010 (Saturday and Sunday)
Application Deadline:
Repeaters - April 14, 2010
First Timers - May 14, 2010

December 12 - 13, 2010 (Sunday and Monday)
Application Deadline:
Repeaters - September 8, 2010
First Timers - October 8, 2010

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Filipino nurses, prosecuted in US, file lawsuit

2010-01-15T01:38:00.000+08:00

Ten Filipino nurses cleared last year of misdemeanor charges for quitting their jobs at a Long Island nursing home have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.
The nurses were recruited from the Philippines to help ease a staffing shortage in the U.S., but resigned en masse in 2006 in a dispute over working conditions.

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US jobs for Filipino nurses delayed by retrogression

2010-01-14T13:38:00.000+08:00

CEBU CITY – An official from the Philippine Nurses Association of America (PNAA) stated that retrogression continues to be the reason why no visas for competent nurses applying for work in the US are available, thus resulting to delay in their employment overseas.
However, PNAA President Leo Felix Jurado, during the 7th PNAA International Conference in this city which culminated Saturday gave assurances that the organization is attempting interventions to aid Filipino nurses applying for US visas.

Under said visa retrogression, as of December, 2009 visa applications from the Philippines shall be processed only through to August, 2005.

Jurado said Filipino nurses seeking employment in the US can be assured that talks are going on between nurse communities and US senators to include the end of visa retrogression in their health care reform measures.

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117 Pinoys take nurse, midwife licensure exams in Hong Kong

2009-12-23T09:19:00.000+08:00

At least 117 Filipinos based in Hong Kong benefited from the Philippine Professional Regulation Commission (PRC)’s first licensure examinations for nurses and midwives there.

The PRC held the examination at the Bayanihan Center in Kennedytown in Hong Kong from December 12 to 13, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said.

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POEA warns on fake job offers abroad

2009-12-22T09:15:00.000+08:00

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) warned jobseekers Friday against individuals offering work opportunities in the United States, Canada and Lebanon.

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Fipino Nurses on the Prairies

2009-12-21T09:14:00.001+08:00

Joan Duhaylungsod is one of 120 nurses recently recruited from the Philippines and are currently practicing in many Manitoba communities like Brandon, Portage La Prairie, Carmen, Pilot Mound, Emerson and Dauphin. The nurses have filled positions in the Assiniboine, Brandon, Central and Parkland regional health authorities.

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Agency linked to Filipino nurses focus of Medicaid probe

2009-12-19T09:14:00.000+08:00

A home health care agency whose owner helped spark the Suffolk prosecution of 10 Filipino nurses must give back more than $3.7 million in wrongfully obtained Medicaid funds, state and federal authorities said yesterday.

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RP medtourism anchors hopes on Global Pinoys

2009-12-14T08:32:00.000+08:00

By Ehda M. Dagooc (The Freeman) Updated December 10, 2009 12:00 AM

CEBU, Philippines - The future of medical tourism in the Philippines will not solely depend on the volume of foreign clients coming to the country to seek medical help, but its growth is largely reliant on the Filipinos working abroad.

“Unlike other countries, the Philippines has its natural market. It is not relying on foreign patients, because the source of constant and sustainable growth for the industry is the OFWs, or the Filipinos residing and working abroad,” said Department of Health head for special concerns Anthony Calibo.

According to Calibo regardless if foreigners come in the Philippines or not to seek medical help, the medical tourism industry here will still grow “because we have growing OFWs, who prefer to get medical attention in their home land.”

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Japan accepts nurse applications

2009-12-13T08:31:00.003+08:00

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) Wednesday announced the start of the recruitment of the second batch of caregivers and nurses under the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) on the Movement of Natural Persons.

POEA and the Japan International Corporation of Welfare Services (JICWELS) said applicants for nurses must be BSN graduates with board license at least three years experience.

Applicants for caregivers must be graduates from any four year course and certified as caregiver by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA); or a graduate from nursing school with no board license.

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Strong rise in Gulf remittances to Philippines

2009-12-12T05:19:00.000+08:00

Remittances from the millions of Filipinos working abroad rose strongly in September from August, data from the country’s central bank showed, contributing to upbeat forecasts for the economy.

But with the Gulf accounting for more than half the number of Filipino workers hired abroad last year, they are unlikely to escape the slowdown unscathed. At the same time, buoyancy in other markets is expected to boost remittances growth and keep the overall economy on track for expansion this year.

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Saudi Red Crescent places job order for 300 nurses

2009-12-11T08:29:00.000+08:00

The Saudi Red Crescent Authority (SRCA) has placed a job order for 300 Filipino male medical workers with the Philippine Overseas Employment Authority (POEA), the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) disclosed Wednesday.

The DoLE said that the health professionals will be working for a state-owned medical institution that pioneers in emergency response and first aid support in Saudi Arabia. “The SRCA needs 200 nurses and paramedics and 100 physicians,’’ said Labor and Employment Secretary Marianito Roque.

“This is a government to government arrangement. Application and inquiries should only be made through the POEA,’’ he added.

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Nurse hiring slump seen

2009-12-10T05:17:00.000+08:00

By Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star) Updated December 06, 2009 12:00 AM

MANILA, Philippines - The number of jobless Filipino nurses is likely to swell further with the expected slump in the hiring of medical workers in the United States and other countries to last for the next two years.

Dr. Fely Marilyn Lorenzo of the University of the Philippines Institute of Health Policy and Development Studies said government data indicated a falling trend in hiring of Filipino nurses for the past years.

“Data from the Commission on Filipino Overseas showed that the demand for Filipino nurses is slowing down in foreign countries, particularly in the country’s top markets,” Lorenzo said.

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Filipino nurses find life sweet in rural RHAs - Recruitment program working

2009-12-08T17:17:00.000+08:00

Joan Duhaylungsod has had to make a lot of adjustments since leaving the Philippines seven months ago for a nursing job in Pilot Mound.

She left family and friends and a tropical climate in a Third World country for a sparsely populated -- and much colder -- country halfway around the world.

While toiling in a long-term care facility in rural Manitoba, she's also had to spend months studying for an exam that would allow her to work as a registered nurse in the province -- a test she passed in October.

On Thursday, she and two dozen other Filipino nurses attended a ceremony at the Legislative Building marking the success of a government nursing recruitment program that has eased the staffing burden on rural health care facilities.

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Group seeks Saudi exemption from exams for RP nurses

2009-12-02T11:24:00.000+08:00

By JC BELLO RUIZ
November 27, 2009, 4:27pm

The Philippine government should ask Saudi Arabia to exempt Filipino nurses from the requirement to take the “prometric” exam to work in the country, the Migrante-Middle East said Friday, noting that the oil-rich country is the one that needs the services of Filipino nurses.

Migrante said the new qualifying exam required by the Saudi government is “an additional burden to Filipino nurses going to the Mideast.”

“The implementation of this new Saudi labor policy should not only be delayed, but should not be implemented at all by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA),” Migrante-ME regional coordinator John Leonard Monterona said in a statement.

POEA Administrator Jennifer Manalili had earlier asked Saudi Arabia to delay the implementation of the prometric exam, the equivalent to the licensure exam taken by nurses in the Philippines, to allow the government to prepare procedures for RP nurses planning to work in the Middle East countries to meet the new requirement

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Bleak job prospects for 95,000 new nurses seen

2009-12-01T01:22:00.000+08:00

A recruitment expert on Sunday expressed concerned at the prospect of no work for some of the 95,000 nursing graduates who may pass the licensure examination currently being administered by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) in selected public and private schools nationwide.

The second phase of the nursing board is set from Nov. 29 to Nov. 30 in 16 regions across the country. The first part was held last June.

“I pity the 95,000 nursing graduates who are poised to take the nursing licensure. Those who pass will join the more than 200,000 unemployed board passers whose experience are volunteer nursing or call center agents or crew in fastfood outlets,’’ said Lito Soriano, executive director of the Federated Association of Manpower Exporters and former president of the Philippine Association of Service Exporters Inc. (PASEI).

“Nurses deployed overseas is not more than 10,000 annually for the past five years. This is a massacre of loss opportunities. No one is waking up to reality,’’ he said in his text message to reporters.

Soriano lamented that the majority of board takers who are sons and daughters of toiling Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) are “willing victims of unemployable college courses.’’

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Goodluck to all Nurses taking Nov 2009 NLE Test Takers

2009-11-29T23:21:00.000+08:00

I just want to wish all you nurses taking the NLE November 2009 the best of luck.

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Pinoy nurses can register online for UAE employment exams

2009-11-25T02:49:00.000+08:00

Filipino nurses can now apply for work at the United Arab Emirates online, as a shortage of nurses there has prompted it to set up an online recruitment system for such caregivers.

A report on UAE-based Khaleej Times said the UAE Ministry of Health now allows applicants to register for entry exams online rather than in person.

“We launched the new registration system on the ministry website six months ago, and we have been getting hundreds of applications everyday," said Dr Fatima Al Rifaee, Director of the Federal Nursing Department in the ministry.

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Pinoy nurses fill vacancies in specialised areas in UK hospitals

2009-11-23T11:49:00.002+08:00

SALISBURY, England - The United Kingdom nursing work force is ageing and British nurses are leaving the country to work in the United States and in recent years, in Australia.

These are some of the contributing factors for the shortage of qualified nurses in the UK both in the National Health Service or NHS and the private sector.

The UK faces the so-called graying of the population of the nursing work force and the younger ones are not interested in the nursing profession because they have more options for jobs that offer better pay and working condition. Those who leave the county to work elsewhere are driven by better pay and living conditions.

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