By: Elaine T. Medillo, RN Hemodialysis nurses assist patients in kidney failure, through dialysis treatments. By becoming certified your patients and peers will know that you have the knowledge to attain this credential, and have earned the respect that comes with it. For some nurses, being a hemodialysis nurse [...]
Back-ups of Being a Nurse
By: Elaine T. Medillo, RN The demand for Filipino nurses in abroad is steadily declining, resulting to the increasing number of jobless or underemployed licensed nurses in the Philippines. According to Leah Samaco-Paquiz, president of the Philippine Nurses Association, the United States and the United Kingdom freeze to hire nurses for shilly-shally reasons. The question [...]
How To Maximize Your PNA Membership?
by: Tammy L. Sulit, RN Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) membership is one of the obligations of a registered nurse in our country. Nurses need to affiliate in the said organization in order to be fully recognized in the industry. In fact, signing up is part of the process before nurses can have their oath taking [...]
Australia needs 40,000 nurses until 2015
by: Tammy L. Sulit, RN The Philippine Oversees Employment Administration (POEA) will launch employment openings for Australia early this year. This will be a huge opportunity to the ballooning 300,000 unemployed Filipinos. – An opportune break to start an amazing 2012. This is Australia’s’ immediate response to their problem on “skills shortage”. Australia is outlining huge [...]
Nurse Anesthetist Training Program In The Philippines
by: Tammy L. Sulit, RN The overflowing nurses produced year by year in our country led to a stiffer competition in acquiring a job and earning the 2 year requirement before a nurse can apply abroad. This caused unemployment of a huge number of nurses. Some nurses resorted to working in irrelevant jobs just to cope [...]
How Saudization Affects Filipino Nurses?
by:Tammy L. Sulit, RN The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest importers of medical professionals from our country. Thousands of Filipinos are deployed in KSA yearly and a lot more have been reliant on both public and private companies and institutions in Saudi for years. When the dispute about Saudization came up, [...]
