Being a nurse is the most in demand out of the country job right now; however other countries like Saudi Arabia wants to accommodate their local applicants first. But according to the survey, 80% of Saudi men and women prefer to be treated by Filipinos since they are gentler especially when handling pregnancy cases. So Japan opens their doors for Filipinos to work as a nurse in their country. This is a good opportunity to start the same work in a different country.

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has announced that Japan needs 500 nurses from the Philippines. The said proposal is under the present Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA). Nurses who would pass the qualifications shall be employed as an assistant and can be fully accepted as registered nurses after passing the local licensure examination. For those successful ones, they are expected to get ¥200,000, or approximately Php 100,000.

POEA will examine the job applicants starting November. The qualifications are as follow; should be a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Nursing at any reputable schools nationwide, must be a Philippine’s nursing board exam passer, at least 3 years practice of working in a hospital and should be physically and mentally fit. All interested applicants can submit their application online.

It is quite unfortunate that the ratio of children having developmental disorders are now increasing in number worldwide. This situation has brought about an emergence of one area of nursing which is equally interesting and fulfilling. Developmental Disability Nurses are now hunted in the United States, Canada and even by employers in Australia whose embassy have just announced to stop their recruitment of foreign nurses until 2013.

If you are one of those nurses in the Philippines who are planning to seek a nursing job in Australia, this is somewhat a bad news. You need to wait for at least two years before your application to be approved.

Australian Ambassador to the Philippines Rod Smith recently visited Cebu City and explained why such thing is happening. He stated that this is all due to a consolidation movement of Australia’s public healthcare sector. “From now until 2013 there will be no significant demand for nurses outside of Australia,” he said. He also stated that at present, there are at least 250,000 Filipinos working and living in their country and majority of them are working as nurses and other professions of the medical field.

Nursing graduates nowadays has been always dreaming to get a nursing job immediately. Sad to say, there isn’t much vacancy of nursing jobs lately. Local hospitals has been cost cutting due to economic crisis. One way of doing it is cutting off the hiring new employees and it includes nurses. Worst scenario might even reach to ending the contracts of their current employees.