May 14, 2021
PHOENIX – Filipino nurses make up just 4% of the national nursing workforce, but according to National Nurses United, 30.1% of registered nurses who’ve died of COVID-19 in the U.S. were Filipino.
Nurses of color make up about 61% of all RNs who have died of COVID-19, said National Nurses United, which represents 170,000 nurses.
Since March of last year, nurse Jennifer Somera has been on the front lines of the pandemic in metro Phoenix, working for a medical surgical unit at a hospital. Somera, who has been a nurse for more than two decades, said she was “floated,” or reassigned, to a COVID-19 unit in the past year, but only a half-dozen or so times.
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Published May 5, 2021, 1:18 PM
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco on Wednesday, May 5, disclosed that he will ask the Department of Health (DOH) and the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) to allow “unregistered or so-called underboard” nursing graduates to complement the manpower needed to address the shortage of health workers in the country.
Velasco revealed in a radio interview that unregistered nurses can work under the supervision of registered nurses or doctors through a special arrangement with the PRC.
He pointed out that since nursing board examinations have been postponed due to the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic, those who were supposed to take the qualifier may be tapped as health workers.