New House Bill for expansion of NARS program in Philippines

Rep. Arnel Ty of the party-list group LPG/MA  filed a bill seeking to establish a special jobs plan for the country’s growing number of unemployed and underemployed nurses.
As proposed by Ty in House Bill 4582, the jobs plan would be an expanded version of the Nurses Assigned in Rural Service (NARS), the short-lived Philippine government project that enlisted 10,000 nurses to improve healthcare services in the country’s 1,000 poorest municipalities in 2009.
Ty said nurses now comprise the country’s second-largest group of professionals after teachers, and the nation’s biggest group of unemployed skilled workers.

A 52% plunge in Pinoy nurses seeking US jobs

A member of Congress reported recently that there is a 52 percent decrease in the first quarter of this year among the number of Filipino Nursing graduates aspiring to practice their profession in America., after nose-diving by 37 percent in the whole of 2010.

Rep. Arnel Ty of the party-list group LPG/MA said that as compared to 3,024 who took the NCLEX for the first time from January to March last year, only 1,454 Filipino Nursing graduates took during the same period this year.