Hospital in KSA Offers Lucrative Job Offer To OFWs

Job opportunities

for Filipino medical professionals abroad continue to emerge as the demand for manpower continues to arise.

International Medical Center (under POEA Reg.# 10072362) in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced their need of highly skilled and experienced Filipino medical professionals.

According to Career Planners Specialists International Inc., the local recruitment partner of the IMC in the country, the hospital need hundreds of nurses

, radiology nurses, Cardiac-CATH Lab nurses, medical technologists, midwives, radiologists, aestheticians (facial/slimming/spa services), sonographers, respiratory and physical therapists.

For nursing staff, the IMC needs nurses to be deployed in ICU, NICU-Nursery, PICU, CCU-Cardio, OPD, labor and delivery, Gynae, VIP and Private Nurses, Medical, surgical, Emergency Rooms, OR-PACU, Elderly or Long Term Care, OB, Pediatrics and L&D Specialists.

As for medical technicians, the hospital needs nuclear medical technicians, cast technicians, EMG technicians, CSSD technicians, CATH-Lab technicians and ECG/ECHO technicians.

Successful applicants will sign a very lucrative 2-year contract with IMC which covers salary and benefits.

The IMC offers TAX-Free salary which ranges from USD800-USD1,250 or Php60,000 a month which varies depending on the length of experience and expertise of the applicant. The IMC also assure applicants that application has no placement fee.

Successful applicants may also get free perks such as roundtrip air tickets, accommodation, transportation, in-service education, 2-years contract with yearly paid vacation with air ticket, medical insurance and free lqma (KSA working visa).

Applicants must have at least 2 year experience in the position that they are applying for and must have worked in a 150-bed capacity hospital. Other documents such as comprehensive resume, transcript of records, certification of employment, license issued by the Professional Regulations Commission and a ready passport should be presented.

However, Career Planners and IMC cleared that there are no specific vacancies needed to be filled. The hospital will hire according to how many applicants will pass the interview. The application is also continuous.

Career Planner urged interested applicants to apply as early as possible since employers from the IMC will visit the country for the final interview on November 11 to 19, 2009.

Interested applicants may visit Career Planners at 2/F David Bldg. II, 561 Shaw Blvd Mandaluyong City or call them at 7230686/7238730. To check other jobs available posted by Career Planners, visit their workabroad.ph page at careerplanners.workabroad.ph.

152 Nursing Schools Face Closure Due To Poor Performance

The Commission on Higher Education finally revealed the 152 colleges and universities that are asked to close down or stop offering nursing courses due to poor passing percentages in the nursing licensure examination for the past five years.

However, CHED chairman Emmanuel Angeles said that the said schools will be given another chance in next years nursing licensure exam.

Angeles added that their punishment to the poorest-performing schools aims to give them a lesson, its a warning for them.

This is a wake up call to our nursing schools to shape up or phase out. They are challenged to improve their quality, Angeles said.

Aside from the aim of help parents and students to pick the best nursing schools that would really give them quality education, CHEDs move would also help the economy.

With this move, we are helping not only the parents and students to carefully choose the nursing schools they go to, but we are helping our economy by minimizing frustrations and wastages among our nursing graduates when they take the licensure exams and make sure that they get quality by adhering to world class standards that we are now imposing.,.

The 152 nursing schools failed to get a passing percentage of 46.14 for the past five years.

Metro Manila shares the most number of schools that were asked to take necessary actions. Those were: Arellano University-Manila, Arellano University-Pasay, Delos Santos-STI College,Emilio Aguinaldo College, J.P. Sison General Hospitaland Colleges, La Consolacion College-Manila, Las Pinas College, Martinez Memorial College, Mary Chiles College,Olivarez College, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Pasay, Perpetual Help College of Manila, Philippine Colleges of Health and Sciences, Philippine Rehabilitation Institute Foundation, Southeast Asian Colleges, St. Jude College, St. Rita Hospital College of Nursing and Midwifery, STI-College Recto, the Family Clinic, Unciano Colleges and General Hospital, University of Perpetual Help-Rizal, and World Citi Colleges-Quezon City.

Calabarzon also has 23 schools in the list followed by Central Luzonwith 20. Illocos Region, 16; Bicol Region, 14; SOCCKSARGEN, 8; Northern Mindanao, 7; Zamboanga Peninsula, Davao region and Cordillera Administrative Region, 6; Cagayan Valley and Central Visayas, 5; CARAGA region, 3; and Eastern Visayas and Mimaropa region, 1.

Angeles cleared that the CHED has fairly evaluate each nursing schools.

To be fair to all the schools, we had to do a lot of verification,he said.

Starting next year, CHED will enforce a rule that schools with below five percent performance in the licensure exam for three consecutive will face revocation with their permits and will asked to phase out their course offered.

On the other hand, some universities and colleges had already stopped offering nursing courses such as: Bacarra Medical Center School of Midwifery, Antipolo School of Mursing and Midwifery, Heroes Memorial College, Kolehiyo ng Mamamayan, Cotabato Maritime Academy, Ignatian College, Clinica Arellano School of Midwifery, Quezon Memorial College, Sta. Teresita College, Baguio General Hospital, Chong Jua Hospital School of Nursing, Faith Hospital School of Midwifery, Manila College of Optometry, Ortanez University, and the Philippine Union College of Caloocan.