Filipino Nursing Herald

Here's one of the best position articles I've read on the issue of nurse migration, particularly about Filipino nurses migrating to the US. Everyone please take time to read this and pass it on if you must. Here's a link to the article written by Joseph Curran: Open Letter to President Carter

Perhaps many of the repeat visitors of this blog have been disappointed over the past few weeks largely due to my failure to post new information on my blog. Please accept my apologies. I suppose all bloggers on the Internet have hit some kind of quiet period once or twice or more in their online careers. These past few weeks have taken much away from my time working on my young blog. I hope you would understand my dear friends. Scanning through some of the Web's pages, I found an interesting link: There's a GMAnews report about 21 Filipino nursing students who staged a protest rally earlier in the day to call for equal rights among Japanese nurses and Filipino nurses who could be deployed in Japan once a treaty between Japan and the Philippines becomes ratified. It was a bit confusing to read this piece of news. The news writer says that the student nurses were against the ratification and yet he failed to say exactly why they were against it. The news source (or the person in...

The failed push for an immigration reform law in the U.S. Senate cast a gloomy shadow over other immigration-related legislation, including the Strive Act, which seeks to give, among others, visas to foreign nurses to work and live in the U.S. Since many legislators have declined to touch the topic of immigration, it's good news indeed that one of the influential newspapers, the Wall Street Journal, in the U.S. have adopted the cause to enable the entry of foreign nurses as a short-term solution to the growing nursing shortage crisis. Here's a link to an editorial published on Sept. 12 in the WSJ. The link is from a post in the Hammond Law Group blog .

There are many books that you can use to review for the NCLEX-RN test, but here are some books that were very useful when I studied for my own U.S. licensure exam: 1. Kozier's Fundamentals of Nursing - always useful whether for local or the U.S. NCLEX. It's important that you know your basics. 2. Saunder's Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination - finish reading the entire book and then try to answer the entire set of questions in the accompanying CD-ROM. When answering questions and you get stymied by a difficult question, go back to the book and study the topic again. This is a very good routine when studying and it improves retention. 3. Saunder's Q&A Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination - Use this book together with the Comprehensive Review to look up answers to questions you have difficulty answering. It has a CD-ROM companion which contains basically the same questions as in the book. 4. LaCharity's Prioritization, Delegation & Assignment ...

The U.S. Congress, particularly the House of Representatives has revived the debates on immigration issues in the U.S. through the STRIVE Act. The Subcommittee on Immigration held its hearing on the proposed bill last Sept. 6. I've been trying to find out if anything significant came out from that first hearing, but have found little news so far. It's still too early to tell what will come out of this new effort to put in place a new US immigration law but I'll keep this site updated on news about the proposal when they become available. Some links to stories: Heartbeatnews.com Statesman Journal OC Register

Here's the registration schedule for nurses who just passed the June 2007 board exams. (Thanks, Noel, for sharing this with us.) REGISTRATION SCHEDULE OF NEW NURSES (JUNE 2007 NURSE LICENSURE EXAMINATION) A JOSE, Mona Rhina -- ALVARADO, Julie Ann (October 17) ALVARADO, Maria Concepcion -- BACONAWA, Maria Cristina (October 18) BACOS, Mardion May -- BERNAL, Valerie Joy (October 19) BERNALDEZ, Cheyne Riz -- CALILONG, Ma. Corina (October 22) CALILUNG, Jenny Pearl -- CHUA, Jay Anne (October 23) CHUA, Jay-ann -- DAZA, Caridad (October 24) DAZO, Mary Catherine - DITONA, Paula Marie (October 25) DIUMANO, John Reynel - FACUNDO, Joanna Filipina (October 26) FACUNLA. Gracelle Fatima -- GATBONTON, Vianca Mae (October 29) GATCHALIAN, Alvin -- IGLESIA, Ma. Leonora Buna (October 30) IGLESIAS, Viviel -- LAURENTE, Emil John (October 31) LAURENTE, Ma. Therese Lonica -- MAGGAY, Pablito Benjamin II (Nov 2) MAGHAMIL, Gilda Marilou -- MEDRANO, Jean S. (Nov 5) MEDRANO, Joan May Aiza -- NG, Ruby Anne (Nov...