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		<title>Number of Pinoy Nurses Seeking US Jobs Drops By 33%</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHILIPPINE STAR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of Filipino nurses seeking employment in the United States continues to drop dramatically, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) reported yesterday. TUCP secretary-general and former senator Ernesto Herrera said Filipinos who sought jobs in the US fell by one-third in the first semester of the year. “Only 5,553 Filipino nurses took [...]


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		<title>Nurses Oppose Job Cuts of California Gubernatorial Bet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ABS-CBN NEWS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over a thousand angry nurses gathered in front of the home of Republican candidate for California governor, Meg Whitman. The nurses belonging to the California Nurses Association said Whitman’s proposals for the state are anti-worker. The nurses said Whitman plans to cut 40,000 state jobs, including health care positions. About 30% of the group’s 85,000 [...]


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		<title>33 Filipino, Indonesian Care Workers Leave Japan Amid Low Passing Rates</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirty-three Filipinos and Indonesians who came to Japan to work as nurses and nursing care workers have returned home after becoming discouraged by their slim prospects of passing the national exams for their professions, it has been learned. Eleven went home after learning they had failed the latest annual nursing exam. Only 1.2 percent of [...]


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		<title>Judge Sides With Pinoy Nurse Fired for Speaking in Tagalog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Maryland Department of Labor reversed an order that withheld unemployment benefits from one of three Filipina nurses who were fired from a Baltimore hospital for speaking Tagalog. Administrative judge Stuart Breslow sided with the nurses when he said in his ruling that no patient was ever put in danger when they spoke Tagalog during [...]


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		<title>The Nursing Profession Under Siege</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An estimated 187,000 Filipino nurses are unemployed. The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) says these nurses are competing for some 70,000 nursing positions in private and public hospitals. But as if that were not enough, the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) admits the problem of unemployment in the nursing profession may just have gotten bigger. &#8220;Another 92,000 [...]


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		<title>Japan Eases Exams for Filipino Nurses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MANILA BULLETIN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Japanese government is open to easing the national examinations for foreign nurses to accommodate more Filipino nurses. Ryuji Satomi, director of the Economic Partnership Agreement Office Employment Security Bureau, said the Japanese government recognizes the difficulties foreign health care workers need to hurdle in order to pass the Japanese National Nursing Examinationn administered under [...]


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		<title>Number of Jobless Filipino Nurses Increasing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Palikpik was one of the 92,000 nursing graduates who took the licensure examinations on Saturday. Palikpik said he spent the last 3 months reviewing for the exam. “Ayaw namin bumaba pa ang aming rating para hindi rin bumaba ang tingin ng ibang bansa sa amin,” he said. But according to an official of the [...]


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		<title>Filipina Nurse Wins Leadership Award in New York City</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT Filipina nurses working abroad are well-liked by patients because of their efficient performance. Most of all, they have gentle touch and innate kindness. One of these nurses is Belina Diaz-Perez, nurse manager of the Coronary Care Unit of Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. She recently received the prestigious [...]


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		<title>Filipino Health Workers Struggle in Filling Elder Care Gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nurse Edel Pimentel believes that Filipino health care providers will be especially able to deal with the demands of the 78 million aging boomers in the United States &#8212; plus their elderly parents &#8212; once they enter a healthcare facility, because Filipinos are “natural caregivers.” In the Philippines, she said, “We tend to take care [...]


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		<title>Norway May Hire Filipino Health Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MANILA BULLETIN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The possible deployment of Filipino health workers to Norway will increase the country’s intellectual capital and wealth, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) said on Saturday. Labor Acting Secretary Romeo Lagman made the statement after disclosing that Filipino nurses and caregivers may likely be deployed to Norway as soon as labor and health officials [...]


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