Westgate International, LLC is in the business of
providing healthcare facilities throughout the
United States of America with the best registered
nurses from the Philippines.
Recruitment of foreign RNs remains an effective option
among healthcare facilities in the face of worsening
nursing shortage.
Permanent residency or greencard visa, despite its
longer processing period, is still the most viable among the
other means for American hospitals to hire RNs from
abroad.
Philippines is currently the hotspot of this type of
foreign RNs recruitment. The nursing curriculum, method
of instruction, educational materials, textbooks, and
educational and testing standards are the same as the
United States. The medium of education is English. In
fact it has an educational system
that was established by the Americans 100 years ago.
Philippine Nursing Licensure Exam
The Philippine Nursing Licensure Exam is a multiple choice exam to test basic nursing level competency which considers the objectives of the nursing curriculum, the broad areas of nursing and other related disciplines and competencies. It is held every June and December annually in various public schools throughout the Philippines. Room assignment for the exams are posted outside the Professional Regulation Commission building at least three days before the exam.
U.S. Nursing Shortage
The US population is projected to grow at least 18% over two decades in the 21st century, while the population of those sixty-five and older is expected to increase three times that rate. The current shortfall of nurses is projected at over 1 million by the year 2020.
Professional and related occupations are expected to rapidly increase between years 2000 – 2012. The demand for healthcare practitioners and technical occupations will increase and projected to have 1.7 million job openings with in this time period. In this group, the demand for registered nurses is the highest. Registered nurses are predicted to have a total of 1,101 openings due to growth during this 10 year period. In a 2001 American Hospital Association survey, 715 hospitals reported that 126,000 nursing positions were unfilled
