Filipino Nursing Herald

The U.S. News & World Report has announced the results of its annual survey of the Best Hospitals in the U.S. Johns Hopkins in Baltimore has again come up on top, followed by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, and the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. The survey ranks the best places to seek medical care, not the best places to work for as a nurse, but often most of the top hospitals also offer superb nursing opportunities. After you look up the survey, check out this interesting article, " Your New Best Friends, the Nurses ", as well.

A new report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers says the U.S. medical workforce system needs resuscitative care. It says that even though there are more doctors and nurses today than ever before, they are not being trained, distributed or deployed efficiently. A huge decline in the number of nurses will begin in less than three years but hospital employers are still in denial about just bad nurses feel about their work conditions. Read the official media release on the PriceWaterhouseCoopers report here .

This just in from ABS-CBN Interactive : At least nine US states are now "eagerly recruiting" Filipino nurses and other health professionals, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines said. Former senator and TUCP general secretary Ernesto Herrera identified the nine US states as California, Texas, New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and New Jersey. 'Over 50 percent of 77.5 million American baby boomers—those born between 1946 to 1964—live in these nine states. This is why these states need health professionals by the thousands,' Herrera said. I suppose nobody told Herrera about the retrogression, but this info is good to know, at least we know where the opportunities are. Read the rest of the story here .

Filipinos working overseas, including nurses, sent home a total of $1.2 billion in remittances in April this year alone. That's 32.6% higher compared to the same period last year. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas says that overseas Filipino workers have already sent a total of $4.7 billion in the first four months of 2007, or more than 26.1% compared to the same period last year. The government is expecting over $13.5 billion in remittances for the entire year, up from the 2006 total of $12.8 billion. Of the eight million overseas workers, there's an estimated 163,756 Filipino nurses working in various countries all over the world.