by pinoy_guy

as if a glut of nurses is not enough of a problem, plus the restrictions on how nurses can get work outside the Philippines...now this.

Accords with specific US states on hiring of nurses proposed

Vice President Noli De Castro on Saturday called for the establishment of agreements with individual states of the United States on the recruitment of Filipino nurses to protect them from abuse and avoid a repetition of the Sentosa case.

the VP had judged the case despite it being in a New York court.

I suggest reading the actual findings of the courts to get an idea of what happened in that case. I don't trust the press releases being bandied about.

or is the case being used to justify the progressive restrictions?

. . . De Castro said there was a need to take a second look at the policy of direct hiring of nurses considering that there were 21,000 of them who passed the recent . . . (NCLEX) . . .

ah...

De Castro . . . said the labor department should replicate in the US the agreement it recently concluded with the state of Alberta in Canada on the deployment of Filipino nurses there.

how did this agreement affect deployment of the Filipino nurses there?

how many Filipino nurses are actuallly in Canada?

He said the alleged abuse of the contracts of 26 Filipino nurses . . . by the US-based Sentosa Recruitment Agency in 2004, was proof that professionals were as vulnerable as domestic workers.

he's using an alleged abuse as proof.

it is easy to make allegations.

let us wait for the court decision to know which ones to believe as proofs.

and this is the person some people are suggesting will be the Philippine President in 2010.

"Nurse sana sila pero ginawa naman silang nursing aide (They were nurses but were turned into nursing aides)," De Castro said of the Sentosa nurses.

if the VP had done his homework, he would have known that they were paid nursing aide rates because they did not have their US RN Licenses at the time, and were working as nursing aides--thus the nursing aide salaries.

what was done to help had been turned into a dagger in the back of the Good Samaritan.

Dr. Jaime Galvez-Tan . . . told De Castro that the Sentosa workers did see their contracts but the problem was the violation of the terms as soon as the nurses arrived in New York.

which side violated the contracts?

remember the Sentosa Lawyer who said that one of the involved nurses had asked to be released from his contract as soon as he arrived in New York with his Green Card?

I'm waiting for what the court decides.

Tan said there are three modes of recruiting nurses: through direct recruitment, through recruitment agencies, and through a staffing agency.

He said the Sentosa nurses were recruited by a staffing agency, that was why they were deployed to other affiliated hospitals in areas other than the area specified in their contracts.

"In fact, when I attended a conference there, I called for a country-to-country agreement in the recruitment of nurses. Pero sabi nila (But they said) because the federal states are autonomous, so hindi puwede ang (it’s not possible for) country-to-country. Pwede (It’s possible for) country-to-state or hospital-to-hospital agreement," Tan said.

this little guy had been working behind the scenes for years to stop the deployment of nurses to the US.

I suggest that the 632,000 potential nurses knock on his door when they cannot find jobs in the future.

De Castro said that Labor Secretary Arturo Brion was reviewing the policy of direct hiring after noting that 39,000 nurses were deployed in the US last year, way above the limit set for direct hiring.

#1. he's confusing the number of NCLEX takers with the number of Filipino nurses who got jobs in the US for 2007--which is an impossibility, as we know the limit in the annual number of Immigrant Visas for Filipinos (9,800?) and this number includes the nurses' families...plus applicants from other fields aside from Nursing.

#2. there is a limit fo direct hiring???
this is pure and simple BS. Filipinos can not find jobs in the Philippines, and the Philippine Government had set a stupid limit???


other countries are gearing up their production of nurses for US Hospitals, while the Philippine Government had been fleecing the Filipino nurses on one hand, and stopping the nurses from leaving on the other.

there should be accountability.

Originally Posted by Manuel L. Quezon

It is better to live in a government run like hell by Filipinos than living in a government run like heaven by the Americans.

I guess De Castro and Galvez-Tan subscribe to this saying.

I don't care what they believe in, but I believe that Filipinos should have the right to work where they want to work--without obstacles, without unnecessary and useless fees.

if they do not want to help Filipino nurses and OFWs (which is what other countries are doing for their own citizens), then I prefer they not do anything at all.

600,000 starving nurses.

que horror.

Re: Another Hurdle: Accords with specific US states on hiring of nurses proposed

there is definitely a way out for us nurses who want to get out of this country... right now, most nurses who wants to go abroad are trying every means to be employed outside of the country... be it US, UK, Australia, NZ, Middle East.. etc... they are desperate just to go out of this country to make a decent living...

there are nurses who are nationalistic wherein they would not go out for reasons that they want to serve our country... its passe... for inasmuch as we wanted to serve our country... we also want to serve our family!!...

honestly speaking, the salary of a nurse here in the philippines is ONLY good for someone who is DEPENDENT and SINGLE!!... The typical average salary of 7500 pesos a month wouldn't even suffice you to rent your own apartment (at least here in Manila)... that sounds disappointing considering that you've earned your way up of being a registered nurse and yet it wouldnt get you anywhere in terms of seeking independent living... moreover would it be enough if you have a spouse and 1 child at the least??? We as nurses work hard in caring for our patients where our licence are always at stake whenever something happens to them... that's why we can't also blame the attitudes of some nurses here (who tend to exert least effort with regard to patient care) are different from those abroad... its not all about the money, but hey, remember that we need money in order to carry on with our daily living...


government here...SUCKS!! They ought to be left alone in this country...

Re: Another Hurdle: Accords with specific US states on hiring of nurses proposed

This is a big horror. I hope they just don't make some regulations about it.

Sometimes I think that I hate the nursing profession because it has become the target of some issues and controversies over these past years...some people are taking advantage of it...sometimes use it to have their ticket for the green card.