Nurse training ads illusive
11/9/2003 18:05
Human resources experts are warning local nurses that many training
programs in Shanghai for nursing staffs to work abroad are attracting
trainees by using misleading advertising.
Nurses should be careful before
taking these costly courses, advised Pan Handa, vice dean of the overseas labor
cooperative committee of Shanghai Foreign Economic and Technological Cooperative
Association.
These ads suggest that nurses will get easy access to work
abroad if they pass the training programs, as the demand for local nursing staff
is high in foreign countries such as the United States and
Australia.
Australia, the ad says, is short 30,000 licensed nurses each year
and will recruit 500 registered nurses in Shanghai.
However, the fact is
it's difficult for local staff to get licensed to work in foreign countries due
to the high professional thresholds and complicated application procedures,
according to local intermediary companies for overseas recruiters.
Industry insiders said only some dozens of local nurses have managed to
realize their dreams of working abroad in the past two years.
The high
income, say a yearly pay of US$40,000 in US, promised by the training programs
for nurses to work with foreign hospitals, has been attractive to local nurses,
who are making less than 30,000 yuan (US$3,628) a year here.
The
illusive ads have increased the local nurse training business.
Taking
advantage of the growing market, more companies are rushing to the nurse
training area and are charging high rates for their programs, human resources
experts said.
Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news
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