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Demand for nurses down, technical jobs surge - DOLE

MANILA, Philippines - The demand for nurses abroad has started to decline, while opportunities for graduates of technical courses like engineering are on the rise, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said yesterday.

“There are 125,000 jobs for engineers in Qatar as of now but we only supplied 26,000 because we don’t have enough engineering graduates to qualify for the jobs,” Labor Secretary Marianito Roque told reporters after attending a congressional hearing on the accomplishments of President Arroyo from the time she delivered her State of the Nation Address last year.

Roque said engineers face job opportunities with the same competitive salaries offered to medical staff.
He said the DOLE could hardly meet the demand for Filipino engineers, information technology experts and other jobs requiring technical skills in Qatar for construction, oil and gas fields.
With this in mind, he advised students to enroll in technical courses.
7/14/09 Philippine Star Click title above to read complete article

42 accused in scheme to use unlicensed nurses for home care

Some parents and patients became suspicious of the nurses when they noticed their lack of skills.

"In one case, a 'nurse' was unable to replace a tracheotomy tube that had fallen out of a young patient's neck. In another case, an impostor nurse simply fled a medical situation when she apparently was unable to provide assistance," according to the statement.

Some of the unlicensed nurses had foreign training, but never passed a U.S. qualifying nursing exam, the attorney's office said, while others had no medical training at all.
7/9/09 CNN click this link to read the complete article

Bright prospect for nurses in USA

India and the Philippines are currently leading in the export of trained nursing manpower to the USA. The two countries sent over there around 50,000 nurses between 2005 and 2007.
Nursing is considered a highly skilled profession. A nurse can earn $4,000 to $10,000 per month, which few professionals can earn, she said.

"There are other potential markets for nurses. Europe, especially the Scandinavian countries, has a huge demand for professional nurses," said Shaheen, who is a US citizen and has worked there as a doctor for 15 years.

The Middle East can also be a big destination for Bangladeshi nurses, she added.
News Reports 7/10/09 click this link to read the complete article

Saudi raises RP nurses’ salary to 40%


With the economic crisis still without end in sight, Filipino nurses working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, particularly those hired effective July 1, 2009, will have a fatter take home pay as the Ministry of Health headed by Minister Dr. Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Rabeeah raised their salary to 40 percent from the old basic rate of Saudi riyal (SR) 2,550.
This increases the affected newly hired Filipino nurses’ monthly pay from SR2,550 to SR3,570, approximately P45,774.54 in today’s exchange rate (SR1=P12.8220), the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia’s Saudi Recruitment Office (SRO) Manila headed by Fahad S. Al-Msaibeeh, employment attaché, said.

Improving patient safety in The Philippines

As well as annually celebrating National Patient Safety Day, doctors in the Philippine Alliance for Patient Safety are currently working on legislation that would improve patient safety

Two years ago, the Philippines was one of eight countries that piloted a safe surgery checklist spearheaded by the World Alliance for Patient Safety and implemented by the Harvard School of Public Health. Funding came from the World Health Organization. Done at the Philippine General Hospital, the pilot showed that surgical complications dropped from 10.1 percent to 9.7 percent after the 19-point checklist was implemented; and deaths dropped from 3.6 percent to 1.7 percent. Since then, the country has widened the pilot to cover non-surgical programmes and 28 hospitals nationwide

7/4/09 Treatment Abroad click this link to read the complete article

Different Nurse positions needed in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia

Technician, Pain Palliation, Adult Oncology, Pedia ICU, Adult ICU, Home Care Service, Labor and Delivery Assistant, Preventive Medicine, Burn Unit, ER, Recovery Room — these are just some of the different nurse positions needed in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia as posted in the Skills International Company Incorporated website, a private employment agency. Click on the link to know more about the qualifications and more details plus how to APPLY ONLINE through their website. You can also find there the different nurse positions needed in Madina, Riyadh and Dammam, all in Saudi Arabia as well.

Local firm gears up to grab US nursing jobs

A local healthcare professional recruiting firm has set a target to grab at least 10 percent market share of nurses in the US in the next 10 years.

As part of the firm's export plan, the first batch of 20 nurses will sit for US nursing board examination and an English test at the end of this year.
“We will be able to send nurses to the US from early next year,” said Shaheen Faruque, president and chief executive officer of Momtaz Memorial Medical Services Bangladesh, a US-Bangladesh partnership.

She said they have been developing and training 20 nurses under a pilot project since 2007. The next batch has already been selected for training, she added.
7/8/09 Bangladesh Daily Star click this link to read the complete article

Nursing schools have until 2009 to follow new curriculum

THE Commission on Higher Education (CHED) yesterday said it might be constrained to revoke the licenses of nursing schools that would fail to implement the revised nursing curriculum by next school.

CHED Commissioner Nona Ricafort said all local nursing schools have until June 2009 to implement the expanded nursing curriculum drawn up by CHED. She said reports received at the office indicate that only 30 percent of the 263 nursing schools nationwide have implemented the new curriculum.

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