MANILA, Philippines—Israel is not hiring Filipino nurses, Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldos said Monday in a strong warning to Filipino nurses dreaming to work there.
“Filipinos are hired in Israel as home-based caregivers, and not as nurses,” she warned, citing a report of Labor Attache to Israel Merriam Cuasay saying the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Tel Aviv continue to receive reports that certain unscrupulous recruiters are still offering jobs for Filipino nurses for a Jordan Valley Medical Center.
“This center is fictitious. No such hospital exists in Israel. Job openings in Israel are only for home-based caregivers, not nurses,” Cuasay reported to Baldoz.
The labor and employment chief had noted that just recently, the so-called Jordan Valley Medical Center figured in the news after the Department of Foreign Affairs also issued a warning to Filipino nurses that the hospital is non-existent.
Baldoz’s warning to Filipino nurses not to fall prey to illegal recruiters promising them jobs to the fictitious hospital was followed by a directive to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) to conduct a massive information campaign against illegal recruitment activities through its regional and provincial offices.
“I direct the POEA to bring this warning down to all local government units to inform our countrymen of this illegal and criminal activity. It must issue an advisory or a bulletin right away and exert all efforts to identify and apprehend these illegal recruiters luring nurses to non-existent jobs in that country,” Baldoz said.
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20101129-305942/Israel-not-hiring-Filipino-nursesBaldoz
"Ang KatipuNurse (KN) ay isang malayang kilusang panlipunan na naglalayon na himukin ang bawat nars or dalubhasang tagapangalaga na maging masusing tagapagbantay ng mga makabuluhan napapanahong mga pangyayari at mga isyung kinakaharap ng mga kapwa nars sa Pilipinas."
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Free the 43 Health Workers NOW! Unity March on December 2!
Free the 43 Health Workers Alliance is a consortium of non-government health organizations, health professional organizations, church institutions, human rights groups and advocates founded on February 2010 to call for the immediate release of the 43 health workers. Since then, the alliance has launched massive campaigns for immediate legal action and public information.
On February 6, forty-three health workers were illegally arrested by combined forces of the Philippine Army and Philippine National Police while conducting a First Responders Health Skills Training in Morong, Rizal. They were incarcerated and tortured in Camp Capinpin, Tanay, Rizal, and later on transferred to Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City, after relatives and supporters demanded that the health workers be transferred to a civilian detention facility from the courts.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Rehistradong Batang Nars ng Pilipinas
by: KatipuNurse Kidlat
Ang pagiging NURSE ang isa sa mga sinasabing malinis at marangal na propesyon sa Pilipinas. Kinikilala ito na animoy prestihiyosong trabaho. Summer noon pagkatapos ko mag-grade 6, nang ako’y magpatuli at isang babae at lalaking nurse ang nag-assist sa akin. Sa pagkamangha ko sa kanilang trabaho, mula noon sinabi ko na sa sarili ko na balang araw, makapagsusuot din ako ng kagaya ng mga suot nilang uniform.
Taon 2007, nakamit ko ang degree na Bachelor of Science in Nursing sa isang eskwelahan dito sa Maynila. June 10 at 11, 2007 ng ako’y kumuha ng board exam at nag-antay ng halos 3 buwan bago lumabas ang resulta. Ika nga, “it was worth the wait” dahil naging positibo naman ang naging resulta. Pumasa ako. Hinanda ko ang aking sarili para sa bagong mundo na aking kakaharapin, ang paghahanap ng trabaho. Trabaho na may kinalaman sa kursong aking pinag-aralan ng 4 na taon. Kursong pinagpuyatan, pinagpaguran, at iginapang ng aking mga magulang na halos malubog kami sa utang at maisanla na yun mga ari-arian namin para maitawid lang ako sa kursong NURSING. Mula sa tuition fee, transportation, iba’t-ibang uniforms, contributions sa community, capping/pinning, stripping, graduation, pag-aaply sa PRC, review center, panunumpa ng propesyon at marami pang iba. Lahat ng iyon ay tinugonan ng aking mga magulang dahil nga magiging NURSE ang anak nila. Ngayon masasabi kong isa na nga akong ganap na Nurse. Registradong Nars sa Pilipinas. May lisensya, at sapat na kaalaman. Mula taong 2007 hanggang ngayon sa mga panahong ito November 2010, tatlong (3) taon na ang nakalilipas. Tanungin nyo ako, may trabaho na ba ako? Sagot, WALA! Ngunit mahal ko ang pagiging isang Nars kaya hindi pa rin ako sumusuko.
nurse volunteer from Bicol
I volunteered for 4 months at the Bicol Medical Center in Naga City, Camarines Sur
They required us to pay a so-called training fee of 2,000 pesos. If we do not pay, they will not furnish us with our well deserved certificates. There are around 180-200 nurses per batch. The Bicol Medical Center is the only tertiary government hospital that requires such fee in Bicol. The Bicol Regional Teaching and Training Hospital does not require the fee.
Government hospitals have found ways to find a legal loophole. Instead of considering our services as volunteerism, they treat it as a training program so they can require us to pay a training fee. That is why they call us fellows instead of volunteers
~ DR,RN,RM
nurse volunteer from CAR
Good day. I am a nurse volunteer in one of the hospitals in the Cordillera Administrative Region, and have been one for almost a year now. Although I have tried applying for a staff position in certain hospitals both here and abroad, I was rejected for not having enough or any actual hospital training back then; the primary reason i resorted to volunteering.
After almost a year of being a nurse volunteer, i have made different observations regarding the said training. Although we are indeed entitled to many actual learning experiences that increases our skill in the nursing profession, that I believe, is the only upside.
First of all, a nurse volunteer is required to pay about 1k/month for hospital training. This training lasts 3-4 months per module, or area of specialization.
This issue of payment has long been existing, and there has already been complaints mostly from the parents of the trainees who wok in the hospital. No numerical compensation is allowed to a volunteer even though the work load is that of a regular staff nurse.
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