Job Opening for Nurses in the US & Canada???
Before you get excited, this post is not about any job openings in the US or Canada. This post is about a reflection of the past which begs the question “”Whatever happen to the million-dollar dream of working as a Filipino nurse in the US and Canada?”.
This need for health workers in North America has sparked a frenzy of what I call “expectators” from the Philippines when we see this as our miracle job to alleviate ourselves from the chin-deep poverty issues. I was gasping for air just like you.
Most people view this as their target in life. Survive college whatever it takes, stick with nursing. The work your ass off and invest your money in getting that PRC certificate to show the world that hey, I am a board passer in the Philippines. So now what? Read more
Brutal gang rape case of a Filipina Nurse in Maguindanao cries justice
Here is another rape case of one our Filipina nurses in Mindanao. This is a very disturbing story indeed as 10 men are involved in the gang rape. This week, hundreds of government health workers, led by Maguindanao’s provincial health officer, Dr. Tahir Sulaik, staged an indignation rally in Cotabato City where they condemned the gang rape of a Filipina nurse and urged authorities to investigate the case.
Sulaik said they do not want a whitewash of the case because some of the suspects are allegedly scions of rich and influential families in Maguindanao.
Some reports claimed that before the incident, Florence (not her real name), the gang rape victim) was seen Read more
More and more Filipino nurses are still unemployed in the Philippines
Oversupply? Oversubscribed? Over to the Max? Is the country’s nursing profession on the brink of collapse?
The Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) reported earlier this month that there are now close to 200,000 jobless nurses in the country and this number is expected to rise further with the measly budget allocated for public hospitals next year.
Because of lesser and lesser opportunities abroad, the Filipino nurse is forced to wait for the right timing to even get a job locally.
“This is depressing.” Said one of the nurses who recently passed the 2010 Nursing Licensure Exams. “We have toiled in school and during the review and now what?”. Yet still, there are still parents who are pushing their kids to go to the nursing profession.
PNA executive director Maristela Abenojar said that there are Read more
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