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.

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.

Presently, there are thousands foreign nurses working in the Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia. And still, there is an increasing demand of foreign nurses in their country. However, there are reported cases of foreign nurses who have been terminated after the Nitagat policy took effect. Migrante-Middle East reported to have 6 confirmed Filipino nurses who have lost their jobs due to Saudization.

As of now, the KSA is in need of 50,000 to 60,000 foreign nurses for the coming 6 months. But despite these numbers, foreign nurses are now in a limbo of the permanency of their employment due to this unexpected regulation.

There has been speculations that the exam will be translated in English as foreign nurses in Japan are having a difficult time passing the licensure examinations as evidenced by the extremely low passing rate of previous examinees.

However, this has remained speculations as there is no way that it would be translated into English. The Japan Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has made it clear that there would no translation of exams yet. However they are conducting focus group discussions (FGD) with its stakeholders and they are still studying the recommendations. The said discussions were participated by hospital presidents, professors, officials of nursing schools and the Institute of Human Language.

Philippines, who happens to be one of the countries that has been providing majority of foreign nurses in a lot of countries including Japan, has strengthen their language training program for their nurses and caregivers bound to that country. In this way, they are giving the nurses and caregivers a higher chance of passing the difficult exam.

Garrett Martin, of the RCN in Northern Ireland said, “The latest figures that we have from the Zero Tolerance group is that there are significant increases in the numbers (of attacks) particularly on nurses and particularly in the mental health arena.”

He also added that patients that were classified as high risk should be handled with not only trained nurses but their number should be increased. The classification of patients should be tighten this time. A “vigorously enforced” zero tolerance policy towards violence to staff has been pressed by the Northern Health Trust.

There will be series of events all throughout year in line with the celebration. A group has been established to actively involve the world’s nurses which would reach to be approximately more than 15 million, in a celebration of commitment to bring health to their communities, locally and worldwide.

Nurses has contributed so much in the community and without them, health care would be chaos. They face a lot of challenges and even sacrificed a lot of personal things just for the sake of their patients. In time of sickness, nurses are those people who can render ample strength for your weak body. Thus being a professional nurse is one of the most noble professions all over the world.

You can check the schedule of events in their website by clicking here.

What are the responsibilities of CRNA’s:

If your a CRNA, you are an advanced practice nurse who administers anesthesia to patients. You work in collaboration with anesthesiologists, surgeons and other physicians and medical professionals to deliver anesthesia for medical and surgical procedures. CRNA’s are performing patient assessment, preparing the patient for anesthesia, administering and maintaining the anesthesia to ensure proper sedation and pain management, overseeing patient recovery from anesthesia and caring for the patient’s immediate post-operative needs.

How to become a CRNA?

If yo want to become one, you must be very willing to render 7 years to education and clinical practice in order to meet the minimum requirements. A Bachelor’s Degree of Nursing is required or other appropriate undergraduate degree, must be registered nurse and a master’s degree from one of the more than 100 graduate schools of nurse anesthesia.

Training to become CRNA:

Must have at least one year of experience in an acute care setting, such as an emergency room or critical care unit, and complete additional training in a large hospital setting. A registered nurse will pass a national certification exam following graduation to obtain the CRNA designation and must complete at least 40 hours of continuing education every two years to maintain the designation.

The requirements to become CRNA is quite tiring to accomplish but in the end its worth it. Filipinos are known to be dedicated individuals and are among the most number of nurses around the world. If ever time will lead you to USA, better become a CRNA to pay off all the effort.

Drug users in developing countries pose health risks not only to themselves, but to others as well. This can be attributed to their less than desirable hygiene and the use of needles to inject. In some areas dirty needles are left lying about in parks, on footpaths, and in abandoned buildings where they can be picked up and reused. This also is an example of how non users can be exposed to a host of blood borne pathogens that are the basis for many dreaded diseases.

The key, then, may lie in addiction intervention programs that help to fight the problem before it even begins. This is a problem with developing countries due to lack of qualified personnel that can administer a program properly and consistently in order to be part of an effective solution. Once addicted, there is a need for further intervention.

Travelling nurses can often be instrumental in the implementation and administration of treatment programmes for the addicted. Doctors and nurses locally can be overwhelmed with the usual health concerns and accidental injuries that they see and must treat as a matter of priority. Where there are extra hands available, such is the case with travelling nurses, attention can be paid to those who need monitoring and assistance with their addiction programmes.

Family involvement in the treatment process of alcoholics and drug addicts is essential. The family acts as a support system to give the addict a feeling of belonging, love, and acceptance. In order to be effective, they must have education and resources available to them. Travelling nurses can help families in that respect as well, since they have knowledge about addiction and its common behaviours, and can inform the family about what to expect. An addict going through a treatment programme will reach milestones and phases and their family should be informed of how each of these stages can affect the addict and the family.

Travelling nurses can also be instrumental in the implementation of alcohol intervention, drug abuse programmes, and family support and education, all of which are keys to combating the drug problems that can plague the world’s developing nations.

THE TUCP based their observations on the total number of nurses who took the US Nursing Licensure Examination which decreases this year.

Secretary-General and former senator Ernesto Herrera said that for January-September 2009, only 11,854 Filipino nurses took the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) compared to the 15,079 examinees on the same months in 2008.

He added that from July-September 2009, only 3,582 took the NCLEX for the first time, down by the 1,660 from the 5,242 that took the same test in the same quarter last year.

Although there are NCLEX review centers in Manila to help Filipino nurses prepare for the examination, a sharp decline of examiners are still recorded.

Herrera believes that due to the recession in the United Stateswhich lead to left and right lay-offs, Filipino nurse are in doubt if they are taking their chances in the country of milk and honey.

“The confidence of foreign workers in America’s economic supremacy has clearly been shaken by the staggering job losses there,” Herrera said.

Herrera noted that according to the US Department of Labor, 7.6 millions Americans have lost their jobs when US was hit by economic crisis in 2007. The unemployed Americans doubled to 15.1 million this year.

However, Herrera said that 4 out of 10 Filipino nurses still want to work in USA, despite of the on going crisis.

For 2008, a total of 20,746 Filipino nurses took the NCLEX for the first time, 3.5 decreases from the 21,299 Filipino nurses who took the test in 2007.

Chairman Emmanuel Angeles of CHED said this on his speech in front of the heads of colleges and universities in Metro Manila and other regions during the launch of CHED’s partnership with the Kapit Bisig Para sa Ilog Pasig Foundation last October 23.

The commission aims to give these schools a warning and want them to excel more efforts in giving quality education to their students.

Aside from nursing schools, CHED were also monitoring 38 maritime schools for the same reason. CHED reminds all colleges and universities to monitor their students who will take licensure exams.

Angeles however declined to further explain their decision but noted that the performance of the nursing and maritime schools would have to be reevaluated before the CHED could take any action.

Angeles also said that warnings will be issued to nursing colleges and universities which had above zero but below the national average passing rates in the licensure examinations.

“We are encouraging our schools to phase out irrelevant courses,” Angeles said.

Last month, CHED announced that they would close down six law schools because they failed to produce bar passers amongst their graduates for the last five years.

He also expressed concern about the standard of higher education in the country, saying that “we are way behind our neighbors.”