by Hoss

Nursing,Pinoy-style

by Joseph Pimentel/AJPress
FilAm Katrina Alino knows from her limited years of experience that there are a lot of Filipinos in the nursing industry nationwide.
After working as a traveling nurse for the past five years, Alino, a registered nurse at John Hopkins Hospital in Maryland, said there were Filipino nurses in every hospital she was assigned in. From the Houston medical center in Texas, the University of Arizona in Arizona, Yale-New Haven Medical Center in Connecticut to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, Filipinos dominated the nursing staff.
“They were everywhere,” she said.
It’s no surprise that there are a lot of Filipinos who pursue a career in the medical field especially in nursing.
With the economic woes of the Philippines, lack of Americans pursuing a career in the nursing field, and the position’s high pay, it’s a simple case of supply and demand.
For the past several decades, US hospitals have recruited heavily in the Philippines to make up for a nursing shortage. Many US agencies set up recruitment fair every year. The US Department of Labor estimates that the country by 2012 needs one million nurses to care for the more than 60 million aging baby boomers population. The study found that RN’s are projected to generate about 587,000 new jobs over the 2006-2016, one of the largest numbers among all occupations.

http://www.asianjournal.com/?c=124&a=29506

Re: US Labor Dept: "Need 1 million Nurses by 2012"

this is a good news for nurses aspiring to work in america. the problem is with the immigration and the limited alloted visa being allocated in philippines where their is more applicants than visa.

Re: US Labor Dept: "Need 1 million Nurses by 2012"

The US may need a million nurses, but there is immigration involved as well and this number by no means is going to be all from other countries.

Those that have expereince when there is a limited number of visas issued per year are always going to be ahead of others. Right now with the retrogression in place, it is about five years at the earliest that visas will be available for those that are just starting the process, and it is not guaranteed that all that want one will get it. Remember that there are just under 10,000 green cards per year for the EB-3 category from your country and this includes other professions too.

It is called supply and demand and we are expecting the US to require actual work experience just like almost all of the other countries before they will consider a license. The best jobs are always going to go to the nurse that has experience.

Best of luck to you, but I would not put any hopes that this will change things. Never has in the past and requirements for immigration are only getting tighter, not easier.

Re: US Labor Dept: "Need 1 million Nurses by 2012"

we will not loose hope i know the congree will act on this, and i am very much sure about the postive outcome no matter what will other say. this retrogression is just temporary there will be solution in the coming months.

Re: US Labor Dept: "Need 1 million Nurses by 2012"

Originally Posted by dave787

we will not loose hope i know the congree will act on this, and i am very much sure about the postive outcome no matter what will other say. this retrogression is just temporary there will be solution in the coming months.

I doubt retrogression will be temporary due to the high demand but there may be periods when things ease and become easier.

Re: US Labor Dept: "Need 1 million Nurses by 2012"

Actually the US Department of Labor has revised the number

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos083.htm

it is now at 587,000 not 1 million.This lists the areas of projected growth of a RN:
Offices of physicians39Home health care services39Outpatient care centers, except mental health and substance abuse34Employment services27General medical and surgical hospitals, public and private22Nursing care facilities20

Many new nurses now never work in a hospital, since the need is not great. The article does mention the nurses with a speciality and advanced education are the nurses most needed.

As the article mentions 21% of RN's work part time so 250,00 nurses do not work fulltime. In our times of shortage these nurses increase their hours. There is a push for educator to get more funding, if there are more nurse educators more RN can graduate. Also many present LPNs can return to get their RN if there are proper briding programs which would take less then a year.

My advice would be to specialize in an area of nursing. Try to get experience in growth area such as home care. I believe the growth in doctors offices are NP so, getting your MSN that qualifies you as a NP would ensure a nurse a position in the future.

Re: US Labor Dept: "Need 1 million Nurses by 2012"

Originally Posted by Silverdragon102

I doubt retrogression will be temporary due to the high demand but there may be periods when things ease and become easier.

yes but im sure th congress will add more visas for nurses and more job for nurses. i didnt say that foreigners will get the 1 million visa SOMEHOW more jobs for nurses.

its just my opinion.

Re: US Labor Dept: "Need 1 million Nurses by 2012"

Originally Posted by dave787

yes but im sure th congress will add more visas for nurses and more job for nurses. i didnt say that foreigners will get the 1 million visa SOMEHOW more jobs for nurses.

its just my opinion.

You may be surprised. We are reading more and more of USC nurses struggling to find work so the government may encourage them to move to jobs than increase foreign nurses visas. Plus at the moment there is no separate allocation for nurses.

Re: US Labor Dept: "Need 1 million Nurses by 2012"

There is still a limit on the number of visas for each category. And even when Schedule A was able to obtain 50,000 unused visas, it did not even make a dent in the numbers that were waiting.

Sure, the retrogression can end for those that were born in certain countries, but the fact remains that there are many more applicants from the Philippines and a few others that there is no way that the visas are going to be current for sometime for those countries.

And notice that the Labor Dept stated that they needed x-number of nurses by 2012, it did not say from out of the country. And there is a rather large push to get more Americans trained and provide jobs for them first. The economy here has taken a nose-dive; it makes no sense for a facility to hire someone that does not have work experience, and pay for the extra orientation time as well as about $10,000 just to get them here. We are also expecting the US to follow suit and require work experience as well as the local license just like most other countries. If they do not that, then those that have the local license and at least two years of actual paid work experience may get to the US.

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Plus we are seeing a significant increase in the number of American nurses that are returning to the bedside that had been stay-at-home mothers to provide additional income for the family, as well as those at the bedside picking up addional hours or second jobs. Shifts are getting covered.

Re: US Labor Dept: "Need 1 million Nurses by 2012"

From my readings on the US Department of Labor it kept referencing the HRSA, as the source for truth. The million nurse deficit is now the projected shortfall in 2010 in 405K,per the HRSA which makes me believe these numbers are always changing. With Medicare level funding I see nursing postions being cut like they were in the 80's when DRG's were first used.
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce...jections/4.htm