Japan May Lift Work Visa Restrictions for Foreign Nurses and Dentists
Due to Japan’s fast-aging and shrinking population, the immigration bureau is considering a plan to abolish visa limits for hundreds of nurses from the Philippines and Indonesia that currently restrict them to working in Japan for only seven years.
According to the bureau official, the changes may come as early as this month and as soon [...]
Specialist Nurses Paid Higher Salaries than Family Doctors in the US
According to the latest reports from Merritt Hawkins & Associates, a physician recruiting and consulting firm in the United States, medical centers last year offered higher salaries and incentives to specialist nurses than to primary care doctors.
Primary care doctors were offered an average base salary of $173,000 in 2009 compared to an average base salary [...]
Most DOH Hospitals Fully Compliant with Total Mercury Phase-Out
According to the Department of Health (DOH), 16 out of the 20 DOH-retained hospitals in Metro Manila have fully complied with the directive on phasing out the use of all apparatuses or devices in the healthcare system that contain mercury.
The phase-out is in connection with the Administrative Order No. 2008-0021 which mandates the gradual phase-out [...]
“Nursing, as a vocation, is a response to a divine call to help the ailing”
Success is not measured by how much you have accumulated wealth nor by just establishing yourself as a skilled practitioner of your chosen career or position. It includes developing maturity and responsibility in how you live your life. It involves the pursuit of wisdom more than the pursuit of arbitrary knowledge.
Nursing remains to be one [...]
Florence Nightingale Biography
Florence Nightingale was born in Italy on 12th May 1820. Despite opposition from her family she decided to devote her life to nursing and campaigning for better health care and sanitation for all. It was her work during the Crimean War that created the legend of the Lady with the Lamp and it was [...]
DOH Wants to Ban Importation of Mercury-Containing Products
The Department of Health (DOH) may recommend to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) the banning on the importation of mercury-containing products in the Philippines.
In a telephone interview, Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral reiterated that mercury is highly toxic so the use of any product containing the substance should be prohibited.
“I think products like [...]
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