FAIR CHANCE 07 May 2012: Health Ministry urges private hospitals to employ experienced locally-trained nurses
THE Health Ministry has called on private hospitals to recruit experienced locally-trained nurses rather than hire foreign ones to reach the targeted nurse-patient ratio by 2015.
Deputy Health Minister Datuk Rosnah Rashid Shirlin said the current nurse-patient ratio was 1:347 and the target was to achieve 1:200 by 2015, as set by the World Health Organisation.
"We are doing our best to ensure that. I'm confident we can achieve that. Private hospitals should also take part in this initiative by recruiting local nursing graduates."
Rosnah said private hospitals had hired 8,052 foreign nurses.
"We should give fresh graduates a chance. Why can't private hospitals take them in?"
She said the ministry trained 5,000 nurses annually.
"We (the ministry) are doing our part very well. We are not against foreign nurses. We have 916 nurses working overseas.
"I'm just saying the locals should have a fair chance to be employed locally," said Rosnah after launching the health campaign organised by the Malaysian Nurses Association here yesterday.
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Currently there is a surplus of demand but not enough job opportunity. All medical schools in the country should stop taking in nursing students because the chances of getting a job once graduating is very scarce.
BalasPadamthis will get serious employment rate if the private hospitals keep keeping the local people out.
PadamHigh school students may need to rethink their future if they intend to enrol in nursing course because the job opportunity in that field is low in Malaysia...very unfortunately.
PadamThe Medical Ministry and Education Ministry should request all medical schools to set a quota, once the quota of students have been reached, they shouldn't take in anymore students. This is to prevent too much nursing grads but not enough jobs.
BalasPadamthe pay of being a nurse is quite high for working as a kakitangan govt, so there is no way there will be a decrease in studying as a nurse.
Padamwe should give our own people a chance, why give outsider the chance?
BalasPadamramai graduan kejururawatan yang masih belum menerima sebarang tawaran di klinik atau hospital swasta...mereka harus diberikan peluang.
BalasPadambanyak orang tiada peluang untuk mendapatkan kerja. terlalu banyak graduan kejururawatan.
PadamTerlalu banyak penawaran dari permintaan. tiap tahun ramai graduate keluaran swasta tapi terpaksa bersaing dengan beribu2 graduate yang lain.
Padamkalau bekalan tenaga kerja jururawat dalam negara kita kurang, barulah pihak hospital swasta dan klinik menggaji jururawat dari luar..namun apa yang berlaku, kita memiliki jumlah graduan jururawat yang ramai..
BalasPadamMalaysia will always have a high rate of unemployment rate. this problem should be solved sooner.
BalasPadamkadar pengangguran graduan jururawat ini dapat dikurangkan sekiranya ada kerjasama yang erat daripada pihak swasta untuk mengambil graduan jururawat bekerja dengan mereka.
Padammungkin kerajaan harus menetapkan satu peraturan untuk menghalang pihak2 hospital swasta daripada mengambil pekerja asing sebagai jururawat di hospital mereka.
BalasPadampengambilan pelajar baru dalam bidang kejururawatan juga harus dikawal...
BalasPadamkolej swasta mementingkan keuntungan. semakin ramai pelajar, makin untunglah mereka.
PadamIf you want the job you must be good enough in that field . You should know how to promote your skill, sell your skill and do whatever to make people believe that you are deserve to get the job. There is no need to set a quota, we are not going to shut down any hosp or clinic but i am 100% sure there will be more clinic and hosp in the future.
BalasPadamLet’s us encourage the graduated nurses so as not to lose hope in their future carriers as nurses.
BalasPadamThere will be high level of unemployment in the state if issues like these are not resolved immediately.
BalasPadamSkills are to be displayed by the graduates.
BalasPadamKelayakan yang menepati piawaian yang ditetapkan perlu ada untuk mendapat peluang pekerjaan.
PadamWe are hoping for more medical facilities in the future.
BalasPadamThe government should provide jobs for those that are truly qualified; the private sector is expected to do the same.
BalasPadamThose who studying in a private nursing college must study really hard to get a high GPA in order to get a job in the hospital.
Padamgraduan jururawat kini amat ramai, pasti sukar mereka nak mendapatkan pekerjaan kerana persaingan amat tinggi.
BalasPadamPersaingan sengit untuk mendapatkan pekerjaan,
PadamKeluaran Nurse ramai tapi peluang untuk mereka agak tipis. Jadi sebaiknya kurangkan pengeluaran tenaga Nurse buat seketika bagi mengelak pengangguran berlaku.
BalasPadam""Deputy Health Minister Datuk Rosnah Rashid Shirlin said the current nurse-patient ratio was 1:347 and the target was to achieve 1:200 by 2015, as set by the World Health Organisation.""
BalasPadambermakna, kita masih kekurangan nurse.. tahun lepas, Sabah merupakan negeri yang mana belianya paling banyak mengikuti kursus kejururawatan berbanding dengan negeri2 lain.. jika setiap tahun, ramai belia di negeri ini yang mengikuti kursus ini, saya yakin masalah kekurangan nurse ini akan dapat diatasi dalam masa beberapa tahun lagi dari sekarang..
The Health Ministry is working on creating vacancies at government hospitals to absorb the large number of unemployed graduate nurses.
BalasPadamHealth Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said a special committee, led by Health director-general Datuk Seri Dr Hasan Abdul Rahman, had been set up to find a solution to the issue.
BalasPadam“We are working on a programme to promote those who are already in the system and the vacancies can then be filled up by the graduates,” he said yesterday.
BalasPadamLiow pointed out that the proposed programme aimed to train the current crop of nurses to specialise in one of the many fields in government hospitals and in the process, create vacancies in lower-level positions.
BalasPadamIn the long run, however, he said private institutions of higher learning would need to streamline their syllabus to match the demands of the local health industry.
BalasPadamOver the past week, The Star ran several reports highlighting the difficulty faced by nursing graduates from private institutes in finding jobs.
BalasPadamA government study found that over 54% of private nursing diploma graduates could not find work three to four months after graduating in 2010, compared to 21.7% in 2008.
BalasPadamLiow said the main factor leading to the surplus of nursing graduates was that private institutes appeared to not be in touch with the areas of expertise that were in demand.
BalasPadamHe said the Government currently runs around 30 colleges, whose graduates are trained to meet the needs of public hospitals.
BalasPadamOn the other hand, most of the estimated 70 private nursing colleges nationwide were providing general training and in many cases, did not meet private sector demand for specialised nurses.
BalasPadam“We are not looking at it as a surplus. We do need nurses, and so does the private sector because it is also expanding.
BalasPadam“This is mostly an issue of a mismatch between training and market demand. However, we do not control the numbers (of student intake) in private colleges.
BalasPadam“This is something we will have to work out with the Higher Education Ministry, and hopefully all of this (syllabus and market demand) will be streamlined,” he said.
BalasPadamLiow did not give a deadline for the committee to find a solution, saying that it had only just been formed and held its first meeting recently.
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