Royal College of Nursing conducted a survey amongst Scotland health workers last month. The result of the said survey came on top of Scottish Governments numbers that they have released last month to which showed a quick increase in numbers of nursing jobs being lost all over NHS Scotland.

According to the survey, nurses and health care workers feel that the said profession will continue to give them a secure job in the future. This time only 30% felt this way and 82% felt the other way around. It was reported then that 74% of stress was added on their work for 3 consecutive quarters. While 69% has a lot of concern about their financial status, and it has been increasing since last year.

The director of RCN College Scotland, Theresa Fyffe said, “ Given the continuing cuts to the nursing workforce, prolonged pay freeze and planned pension increases, it is no surprise that the morale of nurses and health care support workers in our NHS is plummeting,While the impact of such pressures could be expected, it doesn’t mean the situation should continue. If action is not taken and stress continues to increase, standards in patient care will begin to fall.”

She also added that this survey findings should be taken as a warning shot across the bows, for the Scottish Governments. A news was also leaked that salaries of NHS staffs who earns 21,000 pound will be on hold for a second year. More likely, the financial pressure of the nurses will increase more.

Medical staffs from other European countries are being listed to get a job in UK in spite of not having experience working with patients for 20 years. The Nursing and Midwifery Council is being obliged to admit foreign candidates outside UK to register them even if there’s no up-to-date skills, meanwhile British candidates within the similar condition have had to leave their line of work and would have to do a return practice classes at school.

The committee’s chief executive, Dickon Weir – Hughes stated that it had to function a two-tier scheme because of Europe’s decree on the free movement of employees. It was then made known to a Lord sub- committee examining the mobility of the medical representatives between constituent states. In support to the inquisition the General Medical Council make public that a physician’s husband from another country makes contact with them on her behalf to register her for the said job since she can’t speak English.

The European administration is evaluating the rules governing joint recognition of professional credentials. The sub-committee has published evidences in writing and in oral seeing that it organizes what is anticipated to be important news on the existing provisions.

Nursing and Midwifery Council has 67,000 registered professional, with approximately 7,000 nurses and midwives from in another place of Europe eyeing for the position every year.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has recently approved their Saudization or Nitagat Policy. This is their solution for the increasing number of unemployed Arab citizens. The Nitagat Policy requires their local companies to hire their fellow countrymen instead of expatriats. The regulation is classified into several categories depending on their performance in hiring Saudis. The Red and Yellow categories are prevented from renewing work visas of their foreign workers thus forcing these firms to terminate their expatriats and hire their locals within 9 to 11 months. The Green category on the other hand, is allowed to choose and sponsor visas of foreign workers from the red and yellow categories without approval from their employers.

Every country has their own version of Nursing Licensure Exam. Before any foreign nurse would be allowed to work as a registered nurse, they need to pass that certain exam. Among those countries that has been giving the most difficult exams are those non-English speaking countries. Foreign nurses need to undergo didactic studies of that country’s language as well as their culture.