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Westgate International, LLC is in the business of providing healthcare facilities throughout the United States 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.

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.

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.