Human Resources: Overseas Nurses

| Philippine Nurse Recruiting | | | Jean Hinds and Rick Franda | 12/9/2012 |
Silver Lake College
MOB 514
Humana Resource Management
Doug Hamm

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As the developed world experienced severe nursing shortages thousands of Philippine nurses began migrating to the United States. With the developed world experiencing severe nursing shortages, U.S. hospitals have found a deep pool of experienced nurses in the Philippines. U.S. hospitals have had little trouble luring Philippine nurses from their home country by offering higher salaries and better living standards. Philippine nurses have become such an integral part of the American health system that they have started their own national organization, the Philippine Nurses Association of America.
The United States started to experience nursing shortages in the 1970s, as more work opportunities began to open to women therefore making nursing, with its long hours and high stress, a less appealing option. Well-educated and English-speaking Philippine nurses can provided the perfect replacement workforce. Without increasing wages, U.S. hospitals were able to fill necessary jobs with Philippine immigrants.
Philippine Nurses living and working in the USA provided positive economic effects in the Philippines. Once employed in the United States, the nurses can earn as much as 20 times what they were making back home. Parts of their earnings are sent home to support family and other dependents. This is called remittance and in turn helps boost the Philippine economy and support the local population.
With the immigration of the Philippine nurses the belief was that the nurse salaries in the USA decreased due to the immigration. The beliefs were that if the open jobs could be filled with lower cost nurses the salaries could be reduced or remain the same for all nurses. In any job this would be a cause for contention.
Hiring any foreign person in any role will create cultural differences. Several barriers for the Philippine nurses will be the language barriers. Some of the cultural differences in health care are the use of acupuncture, moxibustion (in Eastern medicine, the practice of burning a cone or cylinder of downy or woolly material derived from various plants on the skin for its counterirritant effect), prayers, rituals, and massage. Another strong belief of the Philippine population is the patient should not be informed of a terminal illness for fear knowing will place more stress on the body. These cultural beliefs are much different than those of the USA. Nurses are accustomed to some of the beliefs such as use of acupuncture, massage and prayers but most do not believe those completely heal the person.
Locally there are groups assisting with the immigrants moving to the United States. The Resettlement and Immigration Services (RIS) can be provided by Green Bay Catholic Diocese upon Arrival a few of the services the RIS can provide are: * Case assurance * Sponsorship arrangement * Setting up of apartment * Welcoming family at airport * Cultural orientation * School registration * ESL registration * Social Security application * Green Card applications * Citizenship applications * Family petitions * Travel document applications * Applications to replace green cards and I-94s * Help with asylum cases * Applications for Certificates of Citizenship * Minimal financial support designed by U.S. government standards * Employment counseling and job placement * Health care referrals and treatment if necessary.
RIS also offers orientation on: * Finding jobs * Application and interviewing skills * How to be a good employee * Understanding rules at work
The core values of the Philippine Nurses are exceptional. They strive to provide excellence in all they do with integrity, respect and dignity.
The salary and benefits for a Philippine nurse would be no different than any Registered
Nurse hires. Those benefits would include a salary in the median range of $53,000 per year, medical insurance, vacation, 401K benefits and short and long term disability.
Monetary amounts to recruit Philippine Nurses are – * Visa to Leave Manila which is difficult to obtain at this time. * One Way Flight to USA = $970, * Hotel Room 3 Nights = $225.00 * Housing for one month = $137.50 (4 Nurses per apartment), * Total Cost Once Recruited = $1332.50, * Local Training = $2160.00, * Total of Recruiting and Training = $3492.50 per nurse
In summary I believe this will be a cost effective solution to the Registered Nurse shortage we are currently facing.

References * Filipino Nurses: Carers of the World (2009). Retrieved from http://reymos.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/filipino-nurses-carers-of-the-world/ * Filipino Nurses: Carers of the World (2012). Levin Institute University of New York. Retrieved from http://www.globalization101.org/the-case-of-the-philippine-nurses/ * RRISA Provides Low Cost Immigration Services (2012). Retrieved from http://www.rrisa.org/immigration.html

References: * Filipino Nurses: Carers of the World (2009). Retrieved from http://reymos.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/filipino-nurses-carers-of-the-world/ * Filipino Nurses: Carers of the World (2012). Levin Institute University of New York. Retrieved from http://www.globalization101.org/the-case-of-the-philippine-nurses/ * RRISA Provides Low Cost Immigration Services (2012). Retrieved from http://www.rrisa.org/immigration.html