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Originally Posted by Nyororin
All of the Philippine nurses I have seen so far have been nursing assistants - not hired or treated as regular nurses. There is a huge demand in care for the elderly, particularly in nursing homes and in-home care. For most of the regular tasks, they don`t need to have the normal qualifications as they don`t actually handle the truly medical bits.
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I saw on Japanese TV that they were training them (at a Japanese college)to be actual nurses. Of course these were foreign nurses (there were some American and Aussie nurses too) who had a better than conversational level of Japanese. Of course they had to be retrained to understand that the Japanese body works differently than other nationalities (that was what they told me at my job, it's the same of course
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You're right too, I saw that also.
BTW, I didn't make the comment about American education is preferred over Phillipino, the Japanese man on the news story did. I thought I better clear that up before I get called a racist again. I know nothing of the education there.