By Cristina DC Pastor - news.feetintwoworlds.org
With the passage of health care reform, an estimated 32 million more Americans are expected to regularly access medical services. That’s one more reason – on top of the aging population and the graying nursing pool — for an increase in the demand for nurses.

By David J. Cord - www.helsinkitimes.fi
A Small gap in the healthcare labour market is being filled with the arrival this week of 25 nurses from the Philippines. Twenty will be working in Helsinki while five are on their way to Tampere. They will be employed in surgery and inpatient care.

By Roy C. Mabasa - Given the poor results of the recent Japanese National Nursing Exam, where only one Filipino and two Indonesians passed, the Philippine government is now looking at possible options on how to improve the Japanese language training of Filipino nurses and caregivers interested to work in Japan.

By Diane Jermyn - www.ctv.ca
In 2008, a recruitment mission from the Saskatoon Health Region flew to the Philippines and offered contracts to 105 nurses. Out of the 95 who came, 93 passed the Canadian Registered Nursing Exam and are on the job at Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon City Hospital and St. Paul’s Hospital, as well [...]