Archive for January, 2010

Help Send A Nurse To Haiti

“SEND A NURSE” Disaster Relief Fund

National Nurses United has launched a relief effort to send registered nurses to Haiti. Over 11,000 nurses have already answered the call. There’s just one problem: the cost of sending them. Every dollar you donate will go to providing the resources nurses need to care for the survivors of this tragedy.

To read more or to make a donation, please head on to the California Nurses Association’s NNU secure donation form site. More information can be found at the National Nurses United website. Read more…

Pinoy Nurses In The US Files Lawsuit

10 Pinoy nurses cleared of misdemeanor charges in US file civil rights lawsuit

GARDEN CITY, New York — Ten Filipino nurses cleared last year of misdemeanor charges for quitting their jobs at a Long Island nursing home have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.

The nurses were recruited from the Philippines to help ease a staffing shortage in the US, but resigned en masse in 2006 in a dispute over working conditions.

Read the rest of the article at philstar.com.

Pinoy Nurses Seek End To Visa Retrogression

Filipino nurses in US seek end to visa retrogression

CEBU, Philippines – The Philippine Nurses Association of America assured Filipino nurses dreaming to work in the United States that talks are going on between nurse communities and senators in the US to include in their health care reform the end of visa retrogression.

This would hopefully open more doors for employment of Filipino nurses that would fill the 15 percent shortage in healthcare personnel in many parts of the US.

PNAA President Leo Felix Jurado, during the opening of the 7th PNAA International Conference in Cebu yesterday, admitted that there are no available visas for nurses who are planning to work in the US.

Read the rest of the article at philstar.com.

POEA News Release to Clarify Report on Job Orders

The Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) has just recently posted a news release to clarify reports made by some newspapers regarding job orders abroad.

From the POEA website:
The demand for construction workers reported in some newspapers earlier were not for the US Mainland market but for Guam’s planned development starting 2010 of a modern and integrated military facility. Recruitment for Guam, however, is likely to take a longer time due to recent developments affecting the US and Japan on the issue of a replacement facility for the Futenma Marine base in Okinawa, Japan. The POEA also belied erroneous reports citing employment prospects in the oil and gas industries for the US.

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