any job opportunities local and abroad for RNs

rhenmag9 · Jul 5, 2011

http://www.workabroad.ph/ if you're looking for jobs outside of d country, for hospitals, I'm not sure

Daly City RN · Jul 9, 2011

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I live here in the San Francisco Bay Area (California) where I have been working as a registered nurse for the past 30 years in a number of hospitals here, private and public alike. I have relatives here who were recent NCLEX passers and it took them at least one year to land that first job here in the U.S.A. This is a far cry from conditions before this "Great Recession" started when RNs were in great demand.

I do not know of any hospital here who are hiring foreign nurses at this point in time because of the glut of American nurses. Also the recent news I heard on cable tv on the TFC that Saudi Arabia will stop recruiting Filipino nurses in a few short years. These are sad news for the Filipino nurses wishing to work abroad.

I remember when I was still a penniless student nurse in Manila way back in the 1970's when we were told that there was already an "oversupply" of Filipino nurses. I made a serious decision that I would not get married until I got a nursing job abroad. I was determined that I wasn't going to start a family without a good-paying job. With prayers, persistence and luck I was able to come to America and pass the nursing state board exam (as they were still called back then).

Forward to the early 2000's when rich countries hired so many 'experienced' Filipino RNs that there were howls of protests from every sector of Philippine society about brain drain, and local hospitals were left severely understaffed. With reports of Filipino nurses earning up to $50-60/hr. in America started a storm of Filipinos enrolling in nursing schools by the tens of thousands.

Forward to 2011, the Philippines has hundreds of thousands of unemployed Filipino nurses, the "lucky" ones are working as call center agents, waitresses, caregivers, etc. With all due respect to these jobs, those aren't meant to be the jobs for college-educated young Filipinos.

After I retired from my hospital-based job, I am now working as a nurse educator in a privately-owned home health nursing agency. We actively hire RNs, but we only hire RNs who are already here in the U.S. And we prefer RNs with years of job experience here in the U.S. I know this is frustrating to RNs who have no local experience.

There is a long dark tunnel ahead for Filipino nurses, but keep your hopes up and keep praying. Hopefully once the Western industrialized countries recover from the Great Recession they will start hiring foreign educated nurses once again. Just keep praying.

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onlinemichael · Sep 7, 2011

i work in telehealth nursing in the greater washington dc area and we are still hiring nurses with at least 3 yrs. clinical experience, basic computer skills and if you have call center experience you have an edge over other nurses that don't. you will be trained in a call center environment. we are off weekends and holidays. to the phil nurses, try to get at least 3 yrs clinical experience and at least one year call center experience.

ned1968 · Sep 7, 2011

hi onlinemichael, It is good to know that there are opportunities for nurses other than working in an acute settings. Let's say that I am fully qualified, do they hire nurses outside U.S?

onlinemichael · Sep 7, 2011

unless you have a green card or a u.s. citizen, they will not sponsor you

FLnurse11 · Nov 17, 2011

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I live here in the San Francisco Bay Area (California) where I have been working as a registered nurse for the past 30 years in a number of hospitals here, private and public alike. I have relatives here who were recent NCLEX passers and it took them at least one year to land that first job here in the U.S.A. This is a far cry from conditions before this "Great Recession" started when RNs were in great demand.
I do not know of any hospital here who are hiring foreign nurses at this point in time because of the glut of American nurses. Also the recent news I heard on cable tv on the TFC that Saudi Arabia will stop recruiting Filipino nurses in a few short years. These are sad news for the Filipino nurses wishing to work abroad.
I remember when I was still a penniless student nurse in Manila way back in the 1970's when we were told that there was already an "oversupply" of Filipino nurses. I made a serious decision that I would not get married until I got a nursing job abroad. I was determined that I wasn't going to start a family without a good-paying job. With prayers, persistence and luck I was able to come to America and pass the nursing state board exam (as they were still called back then).
Forward to the early 2000's when rich countries hired so many 'experienced' Filipino RNs that there were howls of protests from every sector of Philippine society about brain drain, and local hospitals were left severely understaffed. With reports of Filipino nurses earning up to $50-60/hr. in America started a storm of Filipinos enrolling in nursing schools by the tens of thousands.
Forward to 2011, the Philippines has hundreds of thousands of unemployed Filipino nurses, the "lucky" ones are working as call center agents, waitresses, caregivers, etc. With all due respect to these jobs, those aren't meant to be the jobs for college-educated young Filipinos.
After I retired from my hospital-based job, I am now working as a nurse educator in a privately-owned home health nursing agency. We actively hire RNs, but we only hire RNs who are already here in the U.S. And we prefer RNs with years of job experience here in the U.S. I know this is frustrating to RNs who have no local experience.
There is a long dark tunnel ahead for Filipino nurses, but keep your hopes up and keep praying. Hopefully once the Western industrialized countries recover from the Great Recession they will start hiring foreign educated nurses once again. Just keep praying.
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Sorry to hear that BUT what I heard from a friend who recruits nurses from the Philippines is that the 2006 nurse applicants at the USCIS is currently being processed at this time and will come next year. 2007 for 2013 etc. As for me, I was lucky to land that first job 1 week after passing the NCLEX. TO GOD BE THE GLORY.

748mack · Nov 22, 2011

Sorry to hear that BUT what I heard from a friend who recruits nurses from the Philippines is that the 2006 nurse applicants at the USCIS is currently being processed at this time and will come next year. 2007 for 2013 etc. As for me, I was lucky to land that first job 1 week after passing the NCLEX. TO GOD BE THE GLORY.

This will not be true if the proposed bill HR 3012 is passed. EB3-P will be pushed back 4-5 more years according to estimates.

Read on it here: http://us-non-immigrants.blogspot.com/2011/10/hr-3012-estimation-of-eb-category-cut.html

Lets help stop this from becoming law and get our EB3 visas sooner!

NurseCubanitaRN2b, BSN, RN · Nov 24, 2011

This will not be true if the proposed bill HR 3012 is passed. EB3-P will be pushed back 4-5 more years according to estimates.
Read on it here: http://us-non-immigrants.blogspot.com/2011/10/hr-3012-estimation-of-eb-category-cut.html
Lets help stop this from becoming law and get our EB3 visas sooner!

Immigration to the US isn't a right, but a privilege, the US can institute bills in any way shape or form. Unfortunately, they don't care who it effects and why. There are currently laws in the US that doesn't benefit everybody and there is always going to be unhappy campers. That's just the way it is. In the end the sole purpose in all laws is to protect the interests of the people in general. Some must understand that there has to be limits set when it comes to immigration because, unfortunately, the US can't take everyone in.

748mack · Nov 24, 2011

Immigration to the US isn't a right, but a privilege, the US can institute bills in any way shape or form. Unfortunately, they don't care who it effects and why. There are currently laws in the US that doesn't benefit everybody and there is always going to be unhappy campers. That's just the way it is. In the end the sole purpose in all laws is to protect the interests of the people in general. Some must understand that there has to be limits set when it comes to immigration because, unfortunately, the US can't take everyone in.

it is the responsibility of the citizenry to scrutinize new laws if it is really for the good of the people.

this bill removes the per country limits. i'm just thinking there is a lobby that is trying to open the gates for specific countries (china and india benefit from this)

i advocate first in first out (as far as immigration applications) how about you?

NurseCubanitaRN2b, BSN, RN · Nov 24, 2011

I honestly believe in 1st come 1st serve. I personally don't think that there should be limits per country, to me that is unfair. I believe there should be limits of the amount of visas allowed per year bit to limit a certain amount per country is unfair. I'm unfamiliar as to the process but they could be giving each country the same percentage per population of that particular country. I really don't know.

rogue_maverick · Nov 25, 2011

Here's what I've been through:

I graduated in 2006, then took the NLE the same year. I was already bored a week after the exam so I worked in a bank while waiting for the results. It took 4 months before the results came out and by the time I became a Registered Nurse, I was still in a profession not aligned with what I have studied in college. I worked with that bank for almost 2 years.

2008. I was lucky enough to be accepted in a tertiary hospital's "nursing skills enhancement training" amidst the thousands who were equally hopeful to at least be part of a training program or to do "volunteer" nursing work just to get clinical experience. That program lasted for 5 months, but unfortunately, I didn't have the "padrino" that will make me an employee of that hospital. After the program, I had no idea where my nursing career would go.

I was jobless and penniless for 10 months.

2009. A simple conversation over coffee paved the way to where I am now. I had a simple get together with an old friend, and that brought me to have basic training in hemodialysis. With a little luck, when my 6 month training was about to end, the renal facility got shortstaffed, and they took two of us as staff nurses. I was so grateful with that opportunity and in return did my best for the patients, and for the company.

2011. I had the opportunity to work here in the Caribbean. At first it was a struggle for me since I have to adapt to a different culture, and co-workers who have different work ethics and clinical practices. But, with hard work and perseverance, after 5 months, I was promoted to charge nurse. And by mid 2012, once the dialysis center we are working on in another Caribbean nation will open, I will be transferred there to manage the facility.

To my fellow Filipino nurses, with this experience, I have realized that when there are just too many nurses going thru the same route, find a different, less saturated route. It may be a different country, or a different specialty, or a different work environment.