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PTE or IELTS Which is easier?

2018-10-08T17:33:00.002+08:00

My wife is trying planning to get her english exam soon because we are planning to go abroad but the question is which english exam should she take, ielts or PTE? Did some research and the general consensus is PTE is much easier but for those of you guys who are planning to go to London, you have a different exam specific for it. Good luck!

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Immigration will greatly affect who wins in the Election 2016

2016-10-05T22:47:00.000+08:00

Are you keeping up with the candidates in the US Election? I know if Trump wins, it will be really hard to migrate to the US as a nurse....

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IELTS Tips on Listening, Reading and Writing

2016-10-04T22:45:00.000+08:00

Hello IELTS Test Takers!

For those who wants some coaching tips for IELTS, try to utilize youtube.com. There are many videos there that are very helpful. I like ENGVID and some other stuff there. I guest for most of the IELTS test takers, they are having problems with READING Test and WRITING. For me, I think the key to the READING TEST is build up your comprehension skills. You might ask me, how do I go about building my comprehension skills? Read... Read... Read... Till next time. If you have some stuff you want to also share with the Nurses at NurseReview, feel free to comment you contribution.

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IELTS Review Materials

2016-09-16T13:25:00.000+08:00

If you need Downloadable IELTS Review Materials, I have some I can share. Just put your email address in the Comment section so that I can email it to you. Likewise, I you have also some IELTS Review Materials, maybe you can also share it with me.

Goodluck in your IELTS Exam!!

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Canada is in need of nurses (Newfoundland and Labrador)

2016-09-06T12:34:00.000+08:00

Hello Fellow Nurses,

Its been a while! If you are interested in migrating to Canada, kindly checkout www.nnas.ca because they are hiring nurses for Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Pinoy nurses warned of employment in Canada

2014-01-02T10:21:00.000+08:00

THE Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has warned Filipinos seeking employment abroad about new e-mail scams offering jobs as nurses in a hospital in Canada.

On his Twitter account, POEA head Hans Leo Cacdac cited one email claiming the St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg is hiring nurses.

"Be warned regarding these fake emails about hiring of nurses by St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Canada," he said.

A screenshot of the email posted by Cacdac on Twitter indicated some of the more recent emails were sent Dec. 19.

READ MORE http://journal.com.ph/index.php/ofw/64061-pinoy-nurses-warned-of-employment-in-canada

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'Pinoy nurses seeking jobs in US increasing

2013-12-28T10:18:00.000+08:00

'Pinoy nurses seeking jobs in US increasing'
By Jess Diaz, The Philippine Star Posted at 12/16/2013 9:23 AM | Updated as of 12/16/2013 3:39 PM

MANILA, Philippines - Filipino nurses seeking employment in the US are increasing in number again.

Cebu Rep. Gerald Anthony Gullas Jr. said a total of 2,952 nurses took the US licensure examination from January to September this year, up by nearly 11 percent from 2,662 in the same period in 2012.

“We hope that as the American economy starts to pick up, the hiring of Filipino nurses by US hospitals, clinics and nursing homes will likewise spring back,” he said.

READ MORE http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/12/16/13/pinoy-nurses-seeking-jobs-us-increasing

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Happy Holidays!

2013-12-26T10:07:00.002+08:00

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all you guys! May you keep on supporting NurseReview in your quest to achieve your nursing goals!

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Pinoy nurses warned vs job offers in Norway

2013-03-08T20:23:00.000+08:00

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine embassy in Oslo has warned Filipino nurses and health care workers to be wary of misleading information circulating online that more jobs are available in Norway.
The misinformation peddled by “consultancy” firms make unsuspecting Filipinos believe that getting a nursing or healthcare job in Norway is easy and that no International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is required.

“While it is true that IELTS is not required by most health care employers in Norway, this is only because English is not the primary language used in the country,” the embassy said.
The embassy said that foreign nurses and health care practitioners wishing to work in Norway have to pass a much harder Norwegian language exam.

While a Professional Regulation Commission license may not be needed for the processing of a visa application, Norwegian authorities still require such license in order for a foreign health care worker to be properly recognized in Norway.
According to embassy officials, these consultancy firms charge applicants large fees for information and services that they can actually obtain for free.

READ MORE: http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2013/02/04/904613/pinoy-nurses-warned-vs-job-offers-norway

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Dissecting Rep. Cynthia Villa's view on the Filipino nurse

2013-03-05T20:23:00.001+08:00

By Jeff Vasquez, RN, MN

EVERY nurse from the Philippines is now furious over Rep. Cynthia Villar's statement on the nursing profession. In a one minute question and answer portion, she was asked to react on her role on the failure to close questionable nursing schools which even led to the resignation of some nursing technical expert members on the panel. In her answer, I think the three phrases that pierced through every nurse's heart are: 1) That nurses do not need to finish the BSN programme; 2) That aspiring nurses have only one desire and that is to become a room nurse; and 3) That nurses do not have to be very good.
I laughed at her answer. It's difficult to answer a question under strict time limits and it's even harder to answer it when you lack information to suffice your answer.
I think nurses still need to finish the BSN programme, but we need a better BSN programme. Over the years, I have gained some experience and looking back at how I could have done things better, I thought that in fact, we could have done things better. We teach nursing students everything that they should know yet only a little is remembered. I have an excellent community nursing rotation, if not the best at that time. But I still question up to now the relevance of the CHN bag. Every student carries the CHN bag yet you do not see a community health nurse carry one. You perform wound dressings, visit the sick, yet the patients do not receive follow up from the local health centre.
During the third year, hospital rotations become more common and medical surgical nursing concepts are introduced. Yet, a student becomes confused as what is taught is not being practiced. The clinical instructor struggles to fill in the gap. Looking back, one project at any rotation would have been a review of literature on evidence-based practices. For example, the use of hydrogen peroxide and/or povidone-iodine versus normal saline in cleansing wounds.
Students are inundated with information just to cover all the topics almost to the point of a nervous breakdown yet we know only little will be retained. So what's the point of teaching everything? I guess you really don't have to know everything but rather, a good clinical instructor builds up on those hospital and community rotations to make them meaningful to the student. This entails investing more time and resources on those medical conditions presented by the patients. However, this needs a proper training hospital to obtain very good medical-surgical patient case studies. And please, no more return-demo on enema. It's obsolete. We now use fleet enema so no need for those primitive enema preparation. Every time I tell this story to my colleagues, it never fails to give them a good laugh. We need a curriculum that is truly competency-based in its whole spirit.
Secondly, nurses have many desires, not just to become a room nurse. There is a lot of opportunities for different specialities of nursing but not entirely available in the Philippines. I wonder where that “room nursing” came from? Well, when you were young, you would see a nurse enter your room, give you your meds or take your vitals. So that is a “room nurse.” Sadly, this perception is embedded in a healthcare system that is strongly physician-based. You see your nurse carry the patients' charts while the doctor does the round then nurses carry out the orders. I would like this changed.

READ MORE: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/opinion/2013/03/04/speak-out-dissecting-rep-cynthia-villas-view-filipino-nurse-271150

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Prince Philip cracks Filipino nurse joke

2013-02-24T09:18:00.000+08:00

The Duke of Edinburgh told a nurse from the Philippines that her country must be "half empty" - because so many of her compatriots have come to the UK to work for the NHS.

He made the remark during a visit to Luton and Dunstable Hospital where he unveiled a £5.5m cardiac centre.

"The Philippines must be half empty - you're all here running the NHS," the prince told the nurse, who laughed.

A hospital spokesperson said the duke's visit had been "hugely motivational".

The 91-year-old royal, who called himself "the world's most experienced curtain puller", was said to be in a "jovial" mood and asked when the hospital would get a helipad to save him a journey by car.

READ MORE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-21519917

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Filipino nurses with US licenses can work in US insurance firms here - lawmaker

2013-02-22T09:14:00.003+08:00

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MANILA, Philippines - Filipino nurses who passed the NCLEX-RN and obtained US licenses but who have not found employment in America may now gainfully practice their profession in the Manila-based back offices of US health insurance companies, House Deputy Majority Leader Roman Romulo said over the weekend.

“There is new demand here for Filipino nurses with active US licenses. The demand is being created by US health insurers that have increasingly found it more cost-effective to offshore their clinical services here,” said Romulo, who supports Manila’s thriving business process outsourcing (BPO) industry.

“They won’t necessarily receive the $20 (P800) per hour starting pay for nurses in most US hospitals. However, due to their specialized responsibilities in providing clinical services here, they are getting higher emoluments compared to the average BPO employee,” he said in a news release.

The remote clinical services range from the pre-servicing of patients, in which a nurse at the health insurer helps evaluate the patient’s needs and ascertain treatment approaches, to discharge planning and support, such as nurse reviews of the patient’s possible post-discharge care requirements.

Unemployed Filipino nurses should consider taking and passing the NCLEX-RN, so that they could hopefully get US licenses and seek potential employment at the back offices here of US health insurers, Romulo said.

The NCLEX-RN refers to the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurse administered by the US (National Council) of State Boards of Nursing Inc. (USNCSBN). The Pearson Professional Center in Makati City has been administering the NCLEX-RN for the USNCSBN since 2007.

In 2011, a total of 5,630 Filipino nurses indicated their desire to practice their profession in America by taking the NCLEX-RN for the first time (excluding repeaters). In the nine months to September this year, another 2,662 Filipino nurses took the examination for the first time, according to the USNCSBN.

US firms in the Philippines

Romulo named at least three firms –- Radiant Services LLC, Exlservice Holdings Inc., and UnitedHealth Group Inc. -- that are employing in the Philippines local nurses with active US licenses.

With offices at the Robinsons Cyberpark in Mandaluyong City and Eastwood Global One in Quezon City, Radiant is a multinational firm providing a broad range of services, including clinical support for US clients in the healthcare payer and pharmacy benefit management space.

Radiant was put up by Indianapolis, Indiana-based WellPoint Inc. to advance its outsourcing of various services to lower-cost locations such as the Philippines.

WellPoint is the second-largest managed healthcare company in the US, serving some 33.5 million members.

With two centers at the SM Mall of Asia, New York, New York-based Exlservice is a BPO firm specializing in healthcare and insurance-related support services.

Exlservice helps provide “targeted care-management support” to the 18.2 million members of Hartford, Connecticut-based Aetna Inc., another diversified health benefits company.

Minnetonka, Minnesota-based UnitedHealth, the largest health benefits provider in the US with over 36 million members, only recently up a back office at McKinley Hill Cyberpark in Taguig City.

UnitedHealth has started enlisting Filipino nurses with active US licenses, basic computer skills as well as hospital and BPO experience, to perform jobs as “nurse associates, clinical quality analysts and clinical managers.”

Benefits of Data Privacy Act

Romulo is author of the new Data Privacy Act of the Philippines, which is expected to lure more global corporations to either establish in-house back offices in Manila, or relegate their non-core, business support activities to independent BPO firms operating here.

The new Philippine law mandates all entities, including BPO firms, to protect the confidentiality of personal information collected from clients and stored in IT systems, in compliance with strict international privacy standards.

The Philippines’ highly labor-intensive, IT-enabled services industry encompasses contact center services; back offices; medical, legal and other data transcription; animation; software development; engineering design; and digital content.

The industry is projected to produce $27 billion in revenues and directly engage some 1.3 million Filipino workers by 2016. This year, the Business Processing Association of the Philippines sees the sector generating $13 billion in revenues on a labor force of 764,000.

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Filipino nurse kidnapped in Yemen released

2013-01-03T09:11:00.005+08:00

SANAA (Xinhua) -- Yemen's security services today set free a Filipino nurse two hours after she was kidnapped in the Yemeni capital, the official Saba news agency reported.
"The 20-year-old Filipino, who works with one of the Yemeni government hospitals, was released unharmed earlier Monday nearly two hours after she was kidnapped," Saba quoted a spokesman of Interior Ministry as saying.
The nurse was forced into a car by two gunmen late Sunday in Hadda Street in downtown Sanaa.
"The security services traced a blue Suzuki Vitara on a highway in the southeast of Sanaa, captured the kidnappers and set the Filipino nurse free," the spokesman said.
The incident came less than two days after militants snatched two Finns and an Austrian in central Sanaa, just a few meters east of the Presidential Palace.
The Yemeni Interior Ministry has formed a crisis team to search for the three hostages.

Readmore at http://www.philstar.com/breaking-news/2012/12/24/889875/filipino-nurse-kidnapped-yemen-released

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New Libyan leader lauds Pinoy nurses, supports Mindanao peace

2012-11-24T09:59:00.000+08:00

New Libyan President Mohammed el-Magarief lauded Filipino nurses and medical workers in Libya for their important contribution to Libyan society, the Department of Foreign Affairs said.

DFA spokesman Raul Hernandez said the Libyan leader made this acknowledgment when new Philippine envoy to Libya Oscar Orcine presented his credentials to him last Oct. 22.

"(The) President of Libya acknowledged (the) contribution of Filipino workers to Libyan society during Ambassador Oscar Orcine's presentation of credentials," Hernandez said in a post on his Twitter account.

During the tension in Libya, many Filipino medical workers had chosen to stay behind and tend to the injured.

A separate news release on the DFA website said the new Libyan leader also stressed the Ambassador's role in enhancing relations between Libya and the Philippines.

He likewise wished Orcine success in his mission in the new Libya, the DFA said.

Peace process

During his audience with el-Magarief, Orcine conveyed to him the greetings of President Benigno Aquino III and of the Filipino people.

He also thanked him for Libya's significant contribution to the peace process.

Libya was a member of the International Monitoring Team looking into the ceasefire between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

For his part, Magarief cited the long-established and friendly relations between Libya and Philippines since 1976.

He acknowledged the signing of a framework peace agreement between the government and the Bangsamoro "as a significant milestone in establishing enduring peace and development in Mindanao."

Orcine also expressed the Philippines' continuing commitment to the march to freedom and democracy of the new Libya and conveyed the country’s best wishes for the Libyan people.

"He also thanked Libya for giving protection to the thousands of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) evacuated during the revolution last year as well as to the Filipino nurses and other medical, teachers and skilled technical workers who chose to remain to carry out their duties in numerous hospitals and worksites and camps in Libya," the DFA said.

Orcine also expressed his resolve to promote excellent relations between the two countries by pursuing agreements and implementing cooperation in different fields: political, health, labor, education, human resources, information and communications technology, investments, tourism and commerce, socio-cultural, and others. –KG, GMA News

SOURCE: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/281097/pinoyabroad/news/new-libyan-leader-lauds-pinoy-nurses-supports-mindanao-peace

Iraq eyes hiring of up to 2,000 Pinoy doctors, nurses

2012-11-23T09:59:00.000+08:00

By Sheila Crisostomo, The Philippine Star

Posted at 11/13/2012 7:35 AM | Updated as of 11/13/2012 10:59 AM

MANILA, Philippines - Despite the existing deployment ban, the Iraqi government wants to hire Filipino doctors and nurses.
Health Secretary Enrique Ona said yesterday that Iraqi Ambassador Wadee Al-Batti had paid him a visit, asking permission to hire some 1,000 to 2,000 Filipino nurses and doctors.
“The opportunity of our health workers to go abroad is really big because the worldwide demand is tremendous,“ Ona said.
He said Al-Batti expressed the intention of the Iraqi government to get the services of these health professionals.
“They want as many nurses as we can give them. But the problem is the hostile situation there. There is a ban there and the only thing we want also to be sure of is the safety of workers. We want to make sure that they are safe,” he said.
Except for the Kurdistan region, a deployment ban is in effect in Iraq.
The ban was imposed following the kidnapping by Iraqi rebels of Filipino worker Angelo de la Cruz in July 2004.
The kidnappers had demanded the pullout of Philippine troops from Iraq.
The government yielded to the demand, which resulted in the safe release of De la Cruz on July 21, 2004.
Meanwhile, Rustico Jimenez, president of the Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines, said there are also demands for healthcare professionals in India.
“For the past two years, every time there is a meeting of all hospitals all over Asia, they (Indian hospital officials) would ask me for 200,000 nurses and other healthcare workers,” Jimenez said, adding that during a recent seminar on Hospital Management Asia in Vietnam, he was again reminded of this.
Aside from doctors and nurses, medical technologists, radio technicians and pulmonology physical therapists are also in demand in India.
Jimenez said he had already informed nurses’ organizations of the job opportunities but there were no takers.
Ona said the government is doing its best to improve the benefits and working conditions of healthcare workers so they would not be lured into working in foreign hospitals.
“We really have to make our health system robust and to do that, our Philippine Health Insurance System must also be robust,” the health chief said.

SOURCE: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/11/12/12/iraq-eyes-hiring-2000-pinoy-doctors-nurses

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Toronto job scam targets Filipino nurses — Consul

2012-11-21T09:58:00.000+08:00

By Ronald O. Reyes | Posted on Nov. 16, 2012 at 12:01am | 1,295 views

The Philippine Consulate in Toronto, Canada warned on Thursday Filipino nurses against offers for non-existing jobs and asking them to pay fees for “coaching interviews” and seminars as a prelude to employment.
Consul General Junever Mahilum-West described as a scam the alleged job offers from Toronto hospitals, including the Shouldice Hospital, in which the applicants were asked to pay P3,888 for “coaching interviews” in the Canadian Embassy in Manila as a prelude to a two-day seminar.
Shouldice Hospital in Toronto has denied making any job offers, Mahilum-West said.
She said Shouldice Hospital has received about 100 e-mails and telephone inquiries about the coaching interviews that would lead to employment in its hospital in Thornhill, Ontario, which is not true.
An alliance of migrant organizations said the unemployment problem in the Philippines has turned from bad to worse and
government announcement of a plan to stop forced migration of Filipino workers within five years is a sham.
Migrante International said results of a survey by the Social Weather Station last August showed that the unemployment rate had increased to 29.4 percent in the third quarter of 2012 compared to 26.6 percent in May this year.
“The plan of the Aquino administration to stop peddling Filipino workers abroad within five years is wishful thinking in the face of worsening unemployment in the country,” said John Leonard Monterona, Migrante Middle East regional coordinator.
Migrante disputed the claims by the Labor Department that the unemployment problem in the Philippines was due to a job mismatch.
Monterona said about 4,200 Filipinos were leaving daily to look for jobs abroad compared with just 3,200 two years ago.
“The number of Filipinos forced to leave the country will increase to around 3 to 5 percent from the current base figure of 4,200 daily in two to three years time,” Monterona said.
He said the survey results were “a slap on the face of Aquino and his labor honchos.’’ With Sara Fabunan

SOURCE: http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/11/16/toronto-job-scam-targets-filipino-nurses-consul/

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'Obamacare' may perk up US demand for Pinoy nurses

2012-11-19T09:57:00.003+08:00

By Paolo Romero, The Philippine Star

Posted at 11/04/2012 12:45 AM | Updated as of 11/04/2012 12:45 AM

MANILA, Philippines - The new US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or “Obamacare” could possibly help revive America’s demand for Filipino nurses, a lawmaker said yesterday.
LPGMA party-list Rep. Arnel Ty, author of a bill that seeks to increase local employment opportunities for idle Filipino nurses estimated at 300,000, said Obamacare may perk up US demand for foreign nurses.
He said Obamacare will increase by around 10 percent the number of Americans seeking health care.
“This will hopefully spur a bit US demand for new foreign nurses and other health practitioners such as pharmacists, physical therapists, medical technologists, radiologists, and speech pathologists,” Ty said.
Sustained by the US Supreme Court recently, Obamacare will provide health insurance to all Americans who are not currently protected against the risk of incurring medical expenses.
The lawmaker said some 30 million Americans are expected to enjoy access to hospitalization and treatment as well as diagnostic and outpatient services on account of the new US law.
He said for decades, the Philippines has been America’s top supplier of nurses, followed by India, Canada, South Korea, Puerto Rico, Nigeria and Cuba.
However, US hiring of Filipino and other foreign-educated nurses has slowed down since 2010 as a result of steep cutbacks in federal, state and local government subsidies to hospitals and nursing homes, Ty said.
Due to persistent corporate layoffs, the lawmaker said that fewer Americans are enjoying employer-sponsored health insurance.
The US has been producing more nurses on its own. From January to September this year, America produced 156,130 new nursing graduates.

Pinoy nurses seeking US jobs drop
Meanwhile, the number of Filipino nurses seeking to practice in America by taking the US licensure examinations continues to drop.
Citing data from the US National Council of State Boards of Nursing Inc., Ty said only 2,662 Filipino nurses (excluding repeaters) took the NCLEX for the first time from January to September this year.
The number is 39 percent lower compared to the 4,354 Filipino nurses who took the NCLEX in the same period in 2011.
A total of 147,743 Filipino nurses have taken the NCLEX since 1995, without counting repeaters.

SOURCE: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/11/03/12/obamacare-may-perk-us-demand-pinoy-nurses

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PHILIPPINE NURSES ASSOCIATION 90TH ANNIVERSARY, 55TH NURSES WEEK, AND NATIONAL CONVENTION AT THE HISTORIC LANDMARK MANILA HOTEL

2012-11-01T12:09:00.000+08:00

THE Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) was founded on September 2, 1922, as the Filipino Nurses Association (FNA) to promote professional growth and the attainment of highest standards of nursing. It was accepted as a member of the International Council of Nurses (ICN), with 125 member countries worldwide, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, in a Congress held in Montreal, Canada, on July 8-13, 1929. In 1966, the FNA was renamed PNA.

In 2003, the PNA was awarded as the “Most Outstanding Accredited Professional Organization” by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), besting 40 other professional associations. On September 30, 2008, it was named the “Most Outstanding National Health Provider Organization” by the Council of Health Agencies of the Philippines.

The PNA had 61,524 lifetime and regular members as of September 15, 2012. It continues to fortify its members’ accord around the nation through its democratic and participative leadership. This year, it is again a finalist for the PRC’s Most Outstanding Accredited Professional Organization.

With the theme “Inspiring the Filipino Nursing Workforce Towards Equity and Access to Health Care,” the PNA this year celebrates its 90th Foundation Anniversary, 55th Nurses Week, and holds its National Annual Convention on October 23-25, 2012 at the Historic Landmark Manila Hotel.

We greet the Philippine Nurses Association headed by its Chairman, Neil M. Martin, National President Noel C. Cadete, Vice President for Programs and Development Dr. Leticia B. Puguon, Vice President for Finance Ariel V. Pabelonia and Corporate Secretary Flordeliza R. Bobiles, on the occasion of its 90th Foundation Anniversary, 55th Nurses Week Celebration, and National Annual Convention. CONGRATULATIONS AND MABUHAY

SOURCE: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/378574/philippine-nurses-association-90th-anniversary-55th-nurses-week-and-national-convent

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Filipino nurses prepare to work in Finland

2012-10-30T12:09:00.000+08:00

Francois Neil Dantes is just one of a group of nurses preparing to come to Finland assuage the labour shortage in the health care sector.

Like others before them, these nurses have participated in an intensive language training programme to ensure that they can integrate into Finnish professional life.

There are currently about half a million jobless nursing professionals in the Philippines. Many of them are even prepared to pay hospitals for the opportunity to gain much needed experience.

Greener pastures abroad

More than 10 million Filipinos have left their country looking for greener pastures elsewhere. They represent one tenth of the population.

They are also the bedrock of the economy: last year they sent home more than 15 billion euros in remittances. Without these transfers, the economy would collapse.

Francois Neil Dantes and others like him also want to help their families at home. Their earnings abroad can help siblings go to school and fund daily expenses.

Ironically, in spite of the glut of skilled workers like Dantes, Filipino authorities are struggling to provide basic health care for the majority of citizens.

Spanish workers report for duty

On Monday a group of 14 of Spanish nurses reported for duty in the Satakunta region of western Finland. They have been deployed in the private and public sectors, performing auxiliary nursing tasks in care homes.

With about quarter of the population unemployed in Spain, many young adults have begun to look abroad for job opportunities.

In the last nursing recruitment drive in Spain, Finnish municipal authorities received more than 2,000 applications.

SOURCE: http://yle.fi/uutiset/filipino_nurses_prepare_to_work_in_finland/6336793

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Filipino Nurses Lawsuit: Tagalog Speakers Win Discrimination Suit, $1 Million Award

2012-10-15T15:25:00.000+08:00

DELANO, Calif. — Dozens of Filipino hospital workers in California will share a nearly $1 million settlement in a lawsuit claiming they were targeted by a rule requiring English only at work, federal officials said Monday.

The settlement involves nearly 70 nurses and medical staff members who accused Delano Regional Medical Center in Kern County of banning them from speaking Tagalog and other Filipino languages while letting other workers speak in their native languages, including Spanish, the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission announced.

The lawsuit, filed jointly by the commission and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center in 2010, accused the hospital of creating a hostile working environment for Filipinos by singling them out for reprimands and by encouraging other staff to report them.

The medical center defended its English-only policy as essential to patient care. In a written statement, officials said the hospital did nothing wrong.

Under California law, employers can require workers to speak English if there is a business necessity.
For decades, thousands of nurses from the Philippines have migrated to the United States to alleviate the nursing shortage. More than half of American nurses trained abroad are from the Philippines.
Filipino nurses in Delano said they were called to a special meeting with hospital managers in 2006, warned not to speak Tagalog, and told surveillance cameras would be installed, if necessary, to monitor them. No other language groups were included in the meeting, the lawsuit states.

Since then, workers said, they were told on a daily basis by fellow staffers to speak only English, even on breaks. The workers allege they were targets of undue scrutiny, discipline, harassment and threats over the issue.

The hospital's policy, which requires the use of either English or the patient's preferred language while care is provides, remains in effect, the hospital's statement said, though it has been updated.
As part of the settlement, the hospital also agreed to develop strong protocols for handling complaints of harassment and discrimination; adopt a language policy that complies with the Civil Rights Act; and conduct anti-harassment and anti-discrimination training for all staff with additional training for supervisors.
Delano Regional Medical Center is a 156-bed hospital located about 30 miles north of Bakersfield.

SOURCE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/17/filipino-nurses-lawsuit-t_n_1891861.html

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DFA: 26 Pinoy nurses evacuated from Libyan area to be redeployed

2012-10-14T15:24:00.001+08:00

At least 26 Filipino nurses who were evacuated from a strife-torn area in Libya are to be reassigned to Libyan hospitals, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Saturday. DFA spokesman Raul Hernandez on his Twitter account said the Libyan health ministry sought the reassignment of the nurses. "(The Philippine Embassy in) Libya (said) 26 nurses evacuated from Bani Walid (are) to be reassigned to hospitals after (the) Libyan Ministry of Health asked their redeployment," he said. But he did not say what would happen to the other two Filipino workers who had been evacuated last October 4. Last Wednesday, Hernandez said the Philippine embassy in Libya evacuated 28 Filipino "medical and other workers" from Bani Walid to Tripoli. The evacuated Filipinos were brought to the Embassy quarters at the time, he said. Earlier, Hernandez also denied claims there were 22 OFWs who were “kidnapped” in Misrata, Libya. He was referring to the claim of militant group Migrante Middle East that 22 Filipino nurses and medical workers were pulled out from Misrata City amid armed clashes. — LBG, GMA News

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A Tale of Filipino New Yorkers who took the plunge, and traveled

2012-03-27T09:11:00.000+08:00

For many of us, travel is a luxury we can’t afford. In fact, for others, travel is a mere aspiration. What with all the things that take up the top spots on our priority lists – family members, mortgage, studies, work, rent.

But perhaps, it is about time to reassess things and look at things differently. Instead of aspiring for a dream vacation, why don’t we set a date to make that a reality, and start by saving up for our travel funds. Instead of two to three cups of coffee a day, reduce it to one. You don’t really need that extra cup of tall, non-fat latte from Starbucks, right?

Maybe we can take into heart one of the most-quoted travel quotes of all-time, this one from St. Augustine: “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” Nobody wants to read just one page, yes?

I confess I am a travel junkie and going to places I’ve never been excites me no end. I’d like to travel more and I always think of my dream destinations, until reality sets in and drags me back to my cubicle.

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Smithsonian traveling exhibit in US tells Fil-Am history

2012-03-24T09:13:00.002+08:00

Frisky 3-a-half-year-old George Haines came into the Singgalot cultural show with his American dad and Filipino mom.

“You can’t be Filipino,” I cracked a lame joke hoping to get his attention and take his photo wearing a ‘Pinoy’ shirt in Sheldon Cooper fashion. He coyly buried his smiling face into his mother’s body.

His parents said George can point out the Philippines on a map and knows the country is somewhere close to Thailand and India. This bright-eyed toddler would later join the chatter and said Philippines “is where lolo lives.”

George was probably the youngest visitor to the Smithsonian traveling exhibit called “Singgalot — the ties that bind: Filipinos in America from colonial subjects to citizens” that day.

On March 8, the day The FilAm came to visit, Stony Brook University’s Charles B. Wang Center in Long Island was crawling with Filipino families and youngsters coming in groups to view the photographs and learn more about Philippine history – the history of their parents’ or at least one of them.

The exhibit traces the beginning of Filipino migration from the time Filipino sailors landed in the 1600s to the present and how Filipino Americans have broken the barriers of poverty, language and race to become accomplished achievers in American society.

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'Bitter truth' about migration of Pinoy science professionals

2012-03-21T09:13:00.002+08:00

The continuous deployment of Filipino science professionals overseas is a “bittersweet” reality that affects the development of research in the country, a study of the Philippine government’s Science Education Institute (SEI) said.

Titled International Migration of Science and Technology Manpower-OFW, the research conducted by the SEI was “an accounting of the temporary Filipino overseas contract workers” under the science and technology category, using data from the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) and the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).

The study accounted the number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the following occupations:
•physicists, chemists, and related professionals;
•computing professionals;
•life science professionals;
•nursing and midwifery professionals;
•mathematician, statisticians, and related professionals;
•engineers and related professionals; and
•health professionals (except nursing).

It noted that most of the host countries are developed ones, while the sources of workers are the less developed countries.

The salaries of most of the science professionals there are “relatively higher compared to that earned locally by a person with the same profession,” it added.

Most Filipino science professionals, the study found, are deployed in Arab countries, particularly Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where most overseas Filipinos were deployed according to the POEA statistics in 2010.

Three other countries in the same region—Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain—are included in the top ten destinations.

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Thousands of jobs await Pinoy nurses in Libya

2012-03-19T09:11:00.002+08:00

MANILA, Philippines - About 1,700 jobs await Filipino nurses in Libya, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said yesterday.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said the government would resume deployment as soon as the partial ban has been lifted.

“We are just awaiting the official recommendation from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) for the full lifting of the deployment ban and as soon as we have it we will resume deployment,” she said.

Baldoz said Libya’s Ministry of Health has already informed the Philippine government of its desire to hire at least 1,000 nurses.

“The Ministry of Health in Libya alone is already needing 1,000 nurses and there are 700 other vacancies in other health facilities,” she said.

Of the 700 vacancies, 300 Filipino nurses have already been recruited and are awaiting the lifting of the ban before they could leave for Libya, Baldoz said.

DOLE previously allowed a partial lifting of the deployment ban to enable rehires to return to work.

The number of Filipino workers in Libya has already surged to 3,000 since the partial lifting of the ban.

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