By Paolo Romero, The Philippine Star 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 Read more »
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City Hemorrhages Filipino American Nurses
By Samson Wong Expect San Francisco government employee unions to turn the screws up on incoming supervisors – particularly Eric Mar and David Chiu – after the latest layoffs.
RP nurses seeking US jobs number 15,000 in first 9 months of ’08
A TOTAL of 15,079 Filipinos took the United States licensure examination for nurses for the first time from January to September 2008, indicating they wanted to seek employment in America, former senator Ernesto Herrera, secretary-general of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), disclosed Thursday.
No nurse surplus, only unqualified graduates–recruiters
MANILA, Philippines — There is no surplus of 400,000 nurses in the country, but a dearth of qualified nurses that employers abroad would hire, the recruitment industry said Monday. The reaction was to the earlier statement of Commissioner Ruth Padilla of the Professional Regulation Commission that the surplus was enough Read more »
The Business of Nursing: Dr. Femy Octaviano gives the nursing profession a boost
By Kathy M. Villalons – Eufemia Octaviano or Femy, as she is fondly called, is a pride of Western Visayas. Being an educator and book author, she has contributed a great deal in the Nursing profession. In 1974, she took up her masteral in Nursing at the University of the Read more »
Nurse Claims Employer Enslaved Her
By KIRK SEMPLE A Filipino woman has accused a former Filipino ambassador to the United Nations of enslaving her for three months in the ambassadorial townhouse on the Upper East Side, forcing her to work as a servant and subjecting her to psychological abuse. The woman, Marichu Suarez Baoanan, 39, Read more »
New York nursing school honors deceased ‘honest’ Ilonggo taxi driver
By Nestor P. Burgos Jr. Life may have been too short for Nestor Sulpico to realize all his dreams. But the deceased New York taxi driver who was hailed a hero in 2004 for returning $75,000 worth of black pearls left by a passenger in his cab will be Read more »
Job outlook for Filipino nurses no longer as bright
By PURPLE ROMERO abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak Days before the June 1 and 2 nursing board exams, 20-year-old Myla Bantog offered two eggs in St. Claire’s Parish in Quezon City to chalk up her chances of passing the test. She also prayed novenas in various parishes, one of which is the Lady of Read more »
Filipinos Integral Part of US Healthcare Workforce – FCC
By Cynthia De Castro Asianjournal.com LOS ANGELES – “The Filipinos have been meeting the demands of a nationwide personnel shortage in the American healthcare industry. They are an integral part of the healthcare workforce,” said Commissioner Michael J. Copps of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an independent United States Read more »
E-mail scams now target jobseekers
ABS-CBN news online – Illegal recruitment has been merged with scams in the Internet as e-mail holders began receiving letters telling them of their supposed acceptance in jobs abroad in exchange however for a sizable ‘training fee.’ Decades ago it was personal e-mail letters telling the receiver of possible business Read more »
