Nurse-employing countries asked to help
‘Canada, Germany, Australia, Austria and United States are the top countries that hire Filipino nurses and other health care workers.’
Daily Tribune‘Canada, Germany, Australia, Austria and United States are the top countries that hire Filipino nurses and other health care workers.’
The Commission on Higher Education is negotiating with countries who hire Filipino nurses to provide technical assistance to Philippine higher education institutions that offer nursing courses in exchange for the benefit that they get, its chairperson Prospero de Vera III said.
"We want them to adopt schools and hospitals, and provide equipment in exchange for the benefit that they get because they get a lot of good nurses in our country," De Vera told the DAILY TRIBUNE in an interview over the weekend.
"They should provide foreign assistance by making our schools and hospitals' training facilities state-of-the-art," De Vera added.
Canada, Germany, Australia, Austria, and United States are the top countries that hire Filipino nurses and other health care workers.
"In fact, we signed an agreement with Austria with such mechanism that when they give assistance, it's not just scholarship but also providing school facilities," De Vera said.
"We really have a big problem on school facilities because the improvement of technology in the health care is so very fast. Maybe the educational materials that we use now have been left behind a little bit. We don't yet have that kind of technology, so why not give us technical assistance so we can further improve the skills of our nurses," the CHEd chief added.
De Vera also said that Philippine universities and Canadian universities are working closely to have a common curriculum.
"The objective here is to continue producing world-class nurses who can practice their profession anywhere. And the only way to do that is to make sure that our curriculum is international," he said.
De Vera said his agency is also eyeing to shorten the master's program for nursing to address the lack of teachers in nursing schools.
"Why don›t we make a shorter master›s program exclusively for those who will teach in nursing schools to increase the number of faculty," he said.
"My target is that by the end of the year, we will have a shorter master's program," the CHEd chief added.
