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Faces of the Boom: Nurses from Philippines give boost to Oil Patch health care
The Fargo-Moorhead Forum ^ | February 23, 2014 | Amy Dalrymple

Posted on 02/23/2014 5:07:13 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 02/23/2014 5:07:13 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A rolling nurse gathers no boss.


2 posted on 02/23/2014 5:14:23 PM PST by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m thinking of getting a job with the oil companies in North Dakota, the ones Sean Hannity is interviewing on his talk show. My Filipina wife doesn’t want to go there because it’s so cold, but maybe she will like the place after all.


3 posted on 02/23/2014 5:16:20 PM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Filipino potlucks are the best - Lumpia, adobo, mmmmm.


4 posted on 02/23/2014 5:20:07 PM PST by dainbramaged (Windage and elevation, Mrs. Langdon; windage and elevation.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Having 20+ years of experience in health care I'm of the opinion that nurses trained in certain countries,the Philippines included,aren't as well trained as those of other countries...US/Canada/Britain/Ireland,etc.The nurse shortage in the US seems to have eased but particularly where the need is greatest one can argue that skilled nurses should be paid more than they're getting.
5 posted on 02/23/2014 5:26:59 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Doing (more) jobs Americans won’t do ??


6 posted on 02/23/2014 5:28:35 PM PST by llevrok (F the government)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Years ago you saw blue collar jobs go away as manufacturing was sent overseas to low wage countries.

Today, big corporation and government even, see the cheap pool of professionals in places like India as a low cost alternative they can bring to the US in those white collar jobs that can’t be offshored. Things like the H1B visa are grossly misused to this end, but since big corporate America was the one behind formulating the legal verbiage of some of these rules, it’s all legal and government itself plays this game!

40 years ago the goal was to build a factory in the Philippines to build a widget. Today the goal is to get a Philippine or an Indian engineer to come to the US and work for $40,000 a year in a white collar job.


7 posted on 02/23/2014 5:31:44 PM PST by Red6
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To: llevrok

The article says there was a shortage.


8 posted on 02/23/2014 5:31:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They’re all hunting for rich dumb American husbands - the nursing thing is just the way in.


9 posted on 02/23/2014 5:32:02 PM PST by Argus
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They certainly don’t stay in the job long. My supervisor in a technical firm was an LVN. You bet your sweet bedpan.


10 posted on 02/23/2014 5:32:32 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Argus

In most cases, thats true.
On the other hand, the American husband is probably getting a very good deal in a wife. (YMMV, but odds of a good wife are better than with the native talent)
Net plus for the US.


11 posted on 02/23/2014 5:36:43 PM PST by buwaya
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s only one good answer to the high costs of the medical rackets.


12 posted on 02/23/2014 5:40:06 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Red6

When the majority of college kids here won’t study engineering, the sciences, mathematics, medicine, nursing and the like, what is one to do? Go without? Do you truly believe that most employers in this country would rather hire an Indian, Pakistani, Filipino or Chinese worker over an American? Or is it that there is an inadequate supply of US workers to fill those slots?


13 posted on 02/23/2014 5:47:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Having 20+ years of experience in health care I'm of the opinion that nurses trained in certain countries,the Philippines included,aren't as well trained as those of other countries"

True, but how scientific does a nurse have to be?

They generally operate under the direction of a doctor and only a few are allowed to act in advance of direction, and only after the doctor learns to trust them.

99% of nursing is the basics. Take temps, give shots, report status and assist as directed.

I guess I should say that's my completely ignorant opinion:)

14 posted on 02/23/2014 5:47:26 PM PST by Mariner
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To: Berosus

Use job service of Nd also craigslist.
Some companies have housing look for them if you wanna break in and areshort on cash.
The winter continues, one guy came here on a wing and a prayer
They amputated his legs for being so stupid.
Things should begin to pick up in the construction trades in April
The drillng rig are lookin to hire also are the pulling units or workover rigs if you prefer. Drilling rigs will have housing


15 posted on 02/23/2014 5:49:08 PM PST by South Dakota (shut up and build a bakken pipe line)
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To: buwaya

My father-in-law’s second wife was a Filipina nurse and a greedy, parasitic nightmare.


16 posted on 02/23/2014 5:52:29 PM PST by Argus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

regarding immigration:

I think this type of immigration should be enabled unlike the uncontrolled mexican immigration.

And it is not about color, mexican nurses are also welcome.

It is the vast amounts of uncontrolled and often unskilled labor that is the problem.

We need a canadian style immigration system which is wholly color blind but focuses on skills, health, age, education, etc.


17 posted on 02/23/2014 5:52:49 PM PST by staytrue
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To: llevrok

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh6OLUPSHyE

It’s the same thing that happened years ago to manufacturing in the US and the blue collar jobs. Today, it’s simply the white collar jobs that are targeted in the US itself.

I use to work as a PM at a major IT firm and I saw this first hand. It’s a big game where business knows the rules (which they helped write) and as long as they go through certain motions they can import engineers, nurses, PhDs, MDs, programmers etc at a rate ~ $15,000 per year, per person below hiring an American. Today, we are bringing thousands under the guise that there are no Americans willing to do the job or that there is a lack in technical skills, but this is all a lie. It’s merely a game where these businesses know what they have to do and say to appear as if they tried hiring and finding qualified people in the US. This, all while they actually don’t want to hire anyone and then fall back onto bringing someone into the US that not only makes a lot less, but also will lose his ability to stay here if he screws up or isn’t willing to do “whatever” they want (he’s a near slave to his employer). This is merely a bottom line driven issue where a substitute labor supply is used that targets the white collar professionals.


18 posted on 02/23/2014 5:55:59 PM PST by Red6
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To: Berosus

I’m in the Alberta oil patch as an electrician. It’s great. Where else can you contract out yourself with your truck, make over 200k a year easy and have a decent lifestyle. Those places are getting few and far between. I wouldn’t recommend roughneck or anything though, work is very hard on the body. I say work with the brain not the brawn heh.


19 posted on 02/23/2014 5:56:07 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Having spent the last year trying to get help with multiple health issues the cultural, language and inferior educations of all foreign medical personnel jeapordize our very lives with some notable exceptions.


20 posted on 02/23/2014 5:57:08 PM PST by amihow
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