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 The president of MNU, Alan Weissman had this to say about the promotion,

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Well three places: Singapore, Mid-east (Saudi, UAE, Qatar), and the US.

The Us is hiring fewer nurses these days, but all that oil money is fueling growth in the mid-East.

I’m hunting down numbers for these countries. Anybody know where I can find them?

http://narsako.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/top-5-things-a-filipino-nurse-must-know-about-saudization/

21,499 examinees took the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) at the height of the nursing boom in 2007.

The US labor market for foreign nurses is getting overcrowded with fewer jobs available making the need for additional foreign markets to open to help nurses find work.

Partly due to funding cuts, and partly due to a glut of nurses, there is likely going to be over 300,000 unemployed nurses in the Philippines in two years. Couple that with hiring freezes in many foreign (US) hospitals, and you get the idea that trouble is on the horizon for this industry.

Many registered nurses are now willing to work for free or even pay hospitals so they could work and gain the necessary experience to qualify them for employment abroad. That seems to shortcoming of the system. Pump out far too many nursers than feasibly possible to employ, with the almost planned expectation that these nurses will leave the country permanently.

Pay for their training here, let them leave forever.

Not a great plan..

No regulation exists to stop or penalize government and private hospitals from using the services of licensed nurses for free, Baldoz said.

The loss is attributed to both fewer jobs in the US, and the increase in domestic nurses emerging from US schools.

The number of NCLEX examinees was 38 percent, or 857, lower compared to the 2,227 Filipinos who took the US nursing licensure examination for the first time during the same period in 2010.

Only 4,354 Filipino nurses took the NCLEX for the first time from January to September.

I’d be interested to know how the job market in the Philippines is for new nurses? I doubt much higher. Thus, unemployment for nurses likely took a jump.

Buoyed by elevated commodity prices, the world’s largest oil producer has emerged as the most aggressive recruiter of Filipino nurse practitioners, overshadowing economically troubled America.

Nitaqat has required more than 300,000 firms in the kingdom to increase their hiring of locals, and lessen their employment of foreigners.

Saudi citizens mostly prefer to be employed in the public sector, in the civilian bureaucracy, or in banks and financial institutions, where they could work in the relative comfort of an office environment, the former senator pointed out.

Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, Libya, Kuwait, the United Kingdom, Qatar, Taiwan, Jordan and Bahrain are also still hiring Filipino nurses, though at a slower pace. This combined for a total of 3,660 newly hired Filipino nurses in 2010.

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8,771 “newly hired” Filipino nurses were deployed to Saudi Arabia in 2010. These nine countries received a combined 3,660 newly hired Filipino nurses in 2010, Herrera said.

“A nonimmigrant alien…who was previously issued a visa or otherwise provided nonimmigrant status…is authorized to accept new employment performing services as a registered nurse…upon the filing by the prospective employer of a new petition on behalf of such nonimmigrant.”

http://www.asianjournal.com/dateline-usa/15-dateline-usa/12045-new-bill-changes-us-visa-requirements-for-foreign-nurses.html

Cool!

But what I do’nt get is why it’s a huge production to win in ‘foreign land’? If you up and leave then don’t pretend you’re somehow going back. Some of us do, but if you’re escaping looking for better times and better pay, then you’re pretty much adopting a new country and it’s no longer ‘foreign’ but merely ‘nurse of the year in your hometown’. It just irks me to see a winner celebrating being a ‘foreigner’ …..