Philippines: Exporting nurses to the world
The most popular college degree in the Philippines today is nursing. More than 100,000 Filipino nurses have left the country to seek better opportunities. According to the Department of Health, 85 percent of the country’s total number of licensed nurses are to be found in the hospitals of other countries.
One reason why the Philippines is a top supplier of nurses in the world is that it produces skilled nursing graduates who can speak good English.
Manila Times gives a comprehensive background on nursing education in the country.
Ang Blog ni Sayote Queen explains her reasons why she wants to be a nurse. The blogger represents the typical Filipino teenager who aspires for other career but ends up studying nursing in the end.
An OFW Living in Hong Kong believes that money is not the sole reason why Filipino nurses want to work abroad.
The term ‘second-courser’ refers to professionals, including doctors who go back to school again to study nursing. My Life as a Nursing Student chronicles his activities as a second-courser.
Bulatlat features the nursing scandal which recently grabbed national attention: the reported leakage in the nursing board examinations, the resignation en masse of the country’s nursing board and the alleged complicity of the Commission on Higher Education to lower the standards for accrediting new nursing schools.
Government officials clarified that “no glaring leakage” occurred in the nursing examination.
18 comments
just want to know if there are any nurses who works in turkey? been searching the net but no sign of any filipino nurses working in that country. or they dont allow filipino nurses to work in their country… it my project and i am almost 3 hours surfng the net but i still nothing… thanks for any reply i can get…
i have this project for school. and like eds i’ve been searching if there are filipino nurses in romania. so far, i haven’t found any info on this. could someone help me? please. thanks.
im a nurse working in Taiwan and im planning to move to Norway after my contract here this coming sept.but i dont know what to do and how to start.theres any agencies who can help me to do the processing while im working here because im planning to cross-country and not to go back home yet.i will highly appreciate if you can help me this matter.thank you
Filipino nurses should stay at home and try to find jobs
i’m a 1st year student nurse. my mother is an ofw in hong kong. i can see thet she’s having a hard time in sending me to school but then, she’s doing her best to provide my needs. we all know that Nursing course is very expensive. and there is an over supply of nurses here in the Philippines. i want to work in USA. but then i don’t know if i still have a chance to be a nurse there. are they still getting Filipino nurses? until when? because i’m thinking of shifting my course to HRM. i need help to decide. please. help me. :)
hey all you unemployed nurses out there—have yu tried Austrlia yet?Desperate shortage here–esp in the Northern Territory—there are already many Filippinos here—but still vacancies
.Try http://www.ntgov.net.au.Good luck.
is still nurses in demand in us?
should we still encourage take up nursing to our new high school graduates?
Philippines is one of the exporter of nurses but why still lack of nurses in our government hospitals?