Filipino nurses has been longing to get a nursing job abroad. Sad to say this but it seems that the country can’t provide their nurses the ample amount of salary that they need for their family. The much higher amount of salary that nurses get out of the country has been the very reason why there has been a great desire to go out.

For nursing graduates who wants wants to take the State Board, Here is the complete list of State Nursing Board with address, contact person and contact details including the necessary fees.

Year 2010 is the International Year of the Nurse and it also marks the centennial year of the death of the founder of modern nursing — Florence Nightingale (1820-1910). She was an English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence during the Crimean War for her pioneering work in nursing, and was dubbed “The Lady with the Lamp” after her habit of making rounds at night to tend injured soldiers. Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment, in 1860, of her nursing school at St Thomas’s Hospital in London.

In the medical world, nurses and doctors are working hand in hand in taking care of patients. Even though medical care won’t be that effective without each other, there has been a distinct difference between the two in the terms of status level in the hospital. In the ladder of authority, it is always the doctor on top then the nurses following them. In delivering medical care, the doctor will give orders for the patient and it would be carried out by the nurses. Nurses are most often referred as doctor’s assistants.