Filipino nurses for Wexford Hospital

June 2001

The first Filipino nurses recruited as part of a drive to address nursing vacancies in the south east are to take up duties at Wexford General Hospital next month.

The South Eastern Health Board said a group of 16 nurses from The Phillipines for the region had arrive in Ireland at the weekend and were to be employed on fixed term, two-year contracts.

The board said the nurses commenced a oneweek Orientation and Induction Programme in Waterford Regional Hospital on Monday, and would then commence their mandatory Irish Nursing Board Adaptation Programme in the hospital too.

On completion of seven weeks training in Waterford, nurses will be deployed to Wexford General Hospital, St Patrick’s Hospital in Cashel, St. Columba’s Hospital in Thomastown, and St. Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny, with some of them remaining in Waterford Regional Hospital. Further Filipion nurses may be employed in future.