Bleak job prospects for 95k nurses
Source: PNA UK's Official Newsletter
A recruitment expert on Sunday expressed concern at the prospect of no work for some of the 95,000 nursing graduates who may pass the licensure examination currently being administered
by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) in selected public and private schools nationwide.
The second phase of the nursing board is set from Nov. 29 to Nov. 30 in 16 regions across the country. The first part was held last June.
“I pity the 95,000 nursing graduates who are poised to take the nursing licensure. Those who
pass will join the more than 200,000 unemployed board passers whose experience are volunteer
nursing or call center agents or crew in fastfood outlets,’’ said Lito Soriano, executive director of the Federated Association of Manpower Exporters and former president of the Philippine Association of Service ExportersInc. (PASEI).
“Nurses deployed overseas is not more than 10,000 annually for the past five years. This is a massacre of loss opportunities. No one is waking up to reality,’’ he said in his text message to reporters. Soriano lamented that the majority of board takers who are sons and daughters of toiling Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) are “willing victims of unemployable college courses.’’
PRC Commissioner Ruth Padilla, a nurse herself, earlier admitted that there are not enough plantilla positions at home and that overseas job hiring has been on the decline over the years.
The Philippine Nursing Association (PNA) also affirmed that the global demand for licensed
nurses has been consistently decreasing since 2004 due to several factors, including policy
changes in countries hiring Filipino nurses, oversupply of nurses and the deteriorating
quality of nursing graduates.Padilla, however, assured the graduates that the government
has been working out a lot of negotiations with other countries in getting employment for Filipino
nurses abroad.
She said the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has coordinated with the PRC in negotiating for jobs for Filipino nurses with countries like Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Bahrain, and Libya, among others. She also expressed confidence that nursing board passers will
get hired in Japan since the country opened up its doors to Filipino nurses recently. Moreover, she said the government is continuously strengthening local programs, including the NARS (Nurses Assigned in Rural Service) program that allow new nurses to be trained in rural centers
and hospitals for six months and serve the poorest municipalities.
The government, through the DoLE, has so far deployed 5,000 nurse-trainees to some 1,000
poorest municipalities since the NARS program was implemented early this year. The nurses receive P8,000 monthly allowance for the services they render to the community.
A recruitment expert on Sunday expressed concern at the prospect of no work for some of the 95,000 nursing graduates who may pass the licensure examination currently being administered
by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) in selected public and private schools nationwide.
The second phase of the nursing board is set from Nov. 29 to Nov. 30 in 16 regions across the country. The first part was held last June.
“I pity the 95,000 nursing graduates who are poised to take the nursing licensure. Those who
pass will join the more than 200,000 unemployed board passers whose experience are volunteer
nursing or call center agents or crew in fastfood outlets,’’ said Lito Soriano, executive director of the Federated Association of Manpower Exporters and former president of the Philippine Association of Service ExportersInc. (PASEI).
“Nurses deployed overseas is not more than 10,000 annually for the past five years. This is a massacre of loss opportunities. No one is waking up to reality,’’ he said in his text message to reporters. Soriano lamented that the majority of board takers who are sons and daughters of toiling Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) are “willing victims of unemployable college courses.’’
PRC Commissioner Ruth Padilla, a nurse herself, earlier admitted that there are not enough plantilla positions at home and that overseas job hiring has been on the decline over the years.
The Philippine Nursing Association (PNA) also affirmed that the global demand for licensed
nurses has been consistently decreasing since 2004 due to several factors, including policy
changes in countries hiring Filipino nurses, oversupply of nurses and the deteriorating
quality of nursing graduates.Padilla, however, assured the graduates that the government
has been working out a lot of negotiations with other countries in getting employment for Filipino
nurses abroad.
She said the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has coordinated with the PRC in negotiating for jobs for Filipino nurses with countries like Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Bahrain, and Libya, among others. She also expressed confidence that nursing board passers will
get hired in Japan since the country opened up its doors to Filipino nurses recently. Moreover, she said the government is continuously strengthening local programs, including the NARS (Nurses Assigned in Rural Service) program that allow new nurses to be trained in rural centers
and hospitals for six months and serve the poorest municipalities.
The government, through the DoLE, has so far deployed 5,000 nurse-trainees to some 1,000
poorest municipalities since the NARS program was implemented early this year. The nurses receive P8,000 monthly allowance for the services they render to the community.
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