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Guys, it will be a long ride, so sad.
Nurse Call: US labor market tough for Filipino Nurses until 2020
US labor market tough for Filipino Nurses until 2020
ABS-CBNnews.com
Filipino nurses may have difficulty entering the US labor market until 2020, according to party-list Rep. Arnel Ty.
"Right now, they have ample supply of US-educated nurses," said Ty, the representative in Congress of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers' Association (LPG-MA).
In a statement, Ty cited statistics from America's National Council of State Boards of Nursing which show that the US produced close to a million nurses from 2006 to 2011.
Ty said the US demand for Filipino and other foreign nurses may start to recover in 8 years when thousands of US-based nurses would have retired.
The US first encountered a shortage of nurses in 1998. This created a surge in number of Filipino nursing graduates hoping to get a career in the US.
However, the gap has since been filled by the large increase in the number of American nurses, plus a deluge of foreign-educated practitioners.
Due to the huge oversupply of nurses in the Philippines, both the Commission on Higher Education and the Professional Regulation Commission have been urging high school graduates to shun nursing.
Late response
Ty blamed regulators for their late response to labor market conditions.
"They should be more aggressive in researching and projecting future labor market conditions, both here and abroad, to help guide young Filipinos as to potential career paths," he said.
"Regulators are just reacting to what is already happening, such as the apparent glut of nursing graduates. Their late advisories would be more valuable once these are predictive and instructive, rather than merely reactive," Ty said.
From 1995 to 2011, Ty said a total of 145,081 Filipino nurses sought to practice their profession in America by taking for the first time (excluding repeaters) the US licensure exam, or NCLEX.
However, Ty said that "from 2006 to 2011 alone, a total of 938,552 US nursing graduates also took the NCLEX for the first time."
Special jobs plan
Ty said he has been pushing for a new law that "would establish a special local jobs plan for idle Filipino nurses, now estimated at more than 300,000."
He has filed House Bill 4582, which seeks an expanded version of the Nurses Assigned in Rural Service or NARS, "the short-lived Philippine government project that enlisted nurses to improve healthcare in poverty-stricken towns."
Ty's said the Special Program for the Employment of Nurses in Urban and Rural Services (NURSE) "would mobilize a total of 10,000 practitioners every year."
Not to rain on your parade, but the over supply is so bad now that often every new grad position in Cali gets 200 applicants. And most other states are just as bad. I have head North Dakota is looking for nurses though so you might try that.
I would like to correct you on your applicant numbers for CA, you're missing a zero, lol.
No, but seriously, I know what you're talking about. I have a few USA nursing friends now and they tell me of how hospitals and even medium size ones are getting over 1,000 applicants on average, some less around 600-800 for only a few openings. UCLA had something like over 3,000. San Diego hospitals getting over 1,000 applicants. Many of the on-line applications are shutting down after reaching a few hundred, some closing the application process mid-way as the computer system gets overloaded and we're talking about open to apply for only a few hours!
One is employed with the big LA hospital I mentioned, a couple of others in LA too but different hospitals and it took them almost a year, but many of their friends are still looking, so sad.
It used to be no matter how bad your work history you could easily get a job there. The over supply thing is just evil greediness by schools and corporations.Good luck to you guys though. I certainly understand wanting to be able to make a decent living for yourselves and your families.
"Evil greediness"? There is great demand for admission to nursing schools in the US by many people who want "to be able to make a decent living for (them)selves and (their) families," same as all the people in the PI studying nursing with the intent of working in another country. Why is it "evil greediness" for schools to attempt to meet that demand? For many years, the state governments pushed the state BONs to find ways to increase the number of nursing school seats available, by allowing existing school to increase the number of students they could accommodate, and allowing new schools to open, because the state governments were hearing from so many people about how they wanted so much to become nurses and they couldn't get into a school. There was also a perceived shortage at that time. People here also want to be able to make a decent living for themselves and their famililes. Is there something wrong with that?
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