{"id":4818,"date":"2015-11-25T03:21:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T03:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ofwjobs.wpengine.com\/?p=4818"},"modified":"2015-11-25T03:21:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T03:21:23","slug":"more-filipino-nurses-seeking-jobs-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/4818-more-filipino-nurses-seeking-jobs-in-america.html","title":{"rendered":"More Filipino Nurses Seeking Jobs in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The number of Filipino nurses seeking to practice their profession in the United States is up 17 per cent in the first nine months this year compared to last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A total of 3,810 Filipinos took the National Council Licensure Examination for the first time from January to September 2015. This is higher than the 3,253 first-time examinees in the same period last year, according to Cebu Rep. Gerald Anthony Gullas Jr, vice chairman of the House committee on higher and technical education.<\/p>\n<p>Gullas said United States National Council of State Boards of Nursing statistics indicate Filipino nurses remain the most active job seeekers in America.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1995, a total of 161,181 nurses educated in the Philippines have taken the NCLEX for the first time, said the news portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Filipino nurses seeking to practice their profession in the United States is up 17 per cent in the first nine months this year compared to last year. A total of 3,810 Filipinos took the National Council Licensure Examination for the first time from January to September 2015. This is higher than the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-healthcare-wellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}