By Mayen Jaymalin, The Philippine Star More Filipino workers are expected to get employed overseas with the lifting of the deployment ban in Northern Iraq and Libya. Recruitment leaders reported yesterday that more than a thousand job orders in the hotel and health industry are already available for Filipinos in Read more »
By Rose Eclarinal, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau Francis Fernando won the first prize at the NHS Clinical Leaders Network AQuA Henderson Quality Awards in the UK. He is the first Filipino and the first nurse in the UK to win the award. Fernando is a trauma and orthopedic nurse Read more »
By Michelle Robinson – stuff.co.nz Filipino nurses are being lured to New Zealand only to end up bonded in caregiving roles at rest homes, the national nurses’ organisation says. More than a quarter of the 46,000 nurses represented by the New Zealand Nurses Organisation were trained overseas, with Filipinos the Read more »
By Jon Lindley Agustin – The year-long battle of some 100 Filipino nurses to keep their jobs in Queens, New York has come to an end when the hospital they were working for closed permanently on Monday. According to the news site Filipino Reporter on Monday, the century-old Peninsula Hospital Read more »
By RODOLFO ESTIMO JR., ARAB NEWS STAFF The Philippine Nurses Association in the Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia (PNA-ERSA) recently held its first general assembly at the Al-Jazeera International School in Dammam. “It was very successful, with Nada Al-Amri, nursing director at King Fahd University Hospital, as guest speaker, Read more »
ABS-CBNnews.com Filipino nurses may have difficulty entering the US labor market until 2020, according to party-list Rep. Arnel Ty. “Right now, they have ample supply of US-educated nurses,” said Ty, the representative in Congress of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers’ Association (LPG-MA). In a statement, Ty cited statistics from Read more »
gmanetwork.com Thirteen Filipino nurses have passed this year’s Kangoshi, Japan’s grueling national licensure examination for nurses, the Department of Labor and Employment said Wednesday. DOLE Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz congratulated the 13, who she said showed the world with their feat that they are professionally competent. “I warmly congratulate the 13 Read more »
PRNewswire via COMTEX Uniforms and scrubs no longer used by Adena Health System nurses have found a new use in the Philippines, inside the San Juan Medical Hospital, which serves some of the poorest people in that country. Christina Cain, a registered nurse on the Adena Medical Center’s 3A Medical-Surgical Read more »
The Philippine Embassy, led by Ambassador to Belgium Victoria S. Bataclan, facilitated the organization meeting and induction rites of the 1st Filipino Nurses Association in Belgium (FILNABEL) at the Embassy Hall of Presidents in Brussels on February 26. Twenty-one nurses deployed from the Philippines, including Filipino nurses who studied and Read more »
By Jess Diaz Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara has proposed a standard P14,000 monthly basic salary for nurses in government and private hospitals and similar institutions. Angara said his Bill 5780 seeks to institute reforms to protect and develop the nursing profession in the country. He said the minimum base Read more »
