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LAS VEGAS – It took just 359 seconds to add the latest devastating chapter to a legacy that will last for decades.

Manny Pacquiao’s flurried fists made short work of Ricky Hatton on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and delivered the most emphatic proof yet that boxing has a superstar for the ages operating at his peak.

Pacquiao sent the Englishman crashing to the canvas twice in a frenetic first round, then sealed the contest with a brutal left hook that had Hatton out cold on his back with one tick remaining in the second round.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. may have announced his comeback from a brief and scarcely-believable retirement on Saturday morning. But there can be no doubt that Pacquiao is boxing’s undisputed king as he continues to ride a remarkable wave of momentum.

“Our strategy was the one punch,” Pacquiao said. “Left hook. Right hook. That was going to be the key to this fight.”

The Filipino fighter is a quiet and reserved man out of the ring, but between the ropes he morphs into an electrifying machine – and Hatton felt his full force.

The Hatton camp had hoped their man’s power would be telling, yet he simply had no response to Pacquiao’s pace and precision. A right hook put Hatton down with 54 seconds remaining in round one and proved to be the beginning of the end.

“I knew it was over,” said Freddie Roach, Pacquiao’s trainer. “Ricky fights the same way over and over. He doesn’t have the ability to adjust.”

As Pacquiao moved in for the finish in the second round, Hatton tried to cling on only to be sent down again with a fierce straight left. Doctors immediately rushed to the aid of Hatton, who eventually and thankfully was able to walk from the ring under his own steam.

“I am surprised this fight was so easy,” said Pacquiao. “I did work hard in my training camp and it paid off. This is as big a victory for me as when I beat Oscar De La Hoya.”

That December triumph over De La Hoya did not convince the entire boxing fraternity of Pacquiao’s ability, primarily as the Golden Boy’s powers had so clearly dimmed from his prime. Now there is no speculation. Pacquiao is the top dog, until someone proves otherwise in the ring.

Floyd Mayweather Sr. was a no-show at the postfight news conference, leaving Hatton’s co-trainer, Lee Beard, to explain the mauling by Pacquiao.

“We knew about Manny’s speed and that it could play a factor in the fight,” Beard said. “What you saw was two rounds of action and Ricky got caught.”

Roach’s status as a trainer grows in line with each victory his top fighter posts and it became clear his game plan was perfect. Hatton could not avoid Pacquiao, who landed with 73 of his 127 punches. The Brit could only land 18 of 78.

“This is no shock at all,“ Roach said. “Hatton pumps his hands before he throws a punch, and it makes him a sucker for the right hook.

“Manny is a monster. He is the best fighter ever. There is no surprise here.”

Defeat was a bitter blow to the thousands of Hatton fans among the 16,262 in attendance who had journeyed across the Atlantic but saw their dreams dashed within a few brutal minutes.

The typical symphony of chanting carried on even after their man had been sparked out, but it may not strike up again. Hatton, who was alert in his locker room before being taken to the hospital, is one of the most popular boxers ever with an incredible fan base, but his fighting future is now in serious doubt.

For Pacquiao, the future is brighter than ever, and his legend continues to grow.

Said Pacquiao: “I can fight anybody.”

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AARGAU, SWITZERLAND — The Filipino community is elated over published news reports that the Swiss Parliament is set to discuss the hiring of Filipino nurses to help address Switzerland’s problem of its aging population.

The Swiss Federal Statistics Office had forecast that by 2050 the number of people over 65 would rise by 90 per cent to 2.2 million, or 27 per cent of the population. The current population of Switzerland is 7.7 million.

Hence the growing demand for nursing care in the country’s Alterheims (homes for the elderly), Pflegeheims (nursing homes) and in hospital geriatric wards.

Up to 30 percent of the current nurses are already Ausländer (foreigners), mostly coming from European Union neighbors Germany and France.

But Frank Wyss, secretary of the health directors’ conference of Switzerland, said the EU itself is already missing a trained workforce in nursing care, according to a news item from the German-language “Sonntag Zeitung” this month.

Wyss said health directors had opened the possibility of recruiting a nursing workforce from even far-away lands such as the Philippines.

“Filipinas are well-trained and educated and they are training more nursing staff than they need themselves,” was how Wyss defended the proposal.

The small community of Filipino nurses here said there is certainly room for more.

“Palagay ko sa aming station kailangan pero hindi ko pa alam, kasi marami ring mag-retire ngayon. Hindi ko alam kung kailan pero talagang kailangan pa ng nurse dito,” said nurse Romy Bocalon, who has worked 17 years in a psychiatric hospital in the canton.

Lilibeth Ladaga, one of the 14 Pinoy nurses and three nursing aides in the same hospital added “natuwa talaga kami nung narinig naming, dahil siyempre may makapasok na bagong Pilipina nurses. Alam mong dito sa amin, gusto nila ang Pilipino nurses dahil magagaling mag-trabaho at masipag.”

News clip lifted from 20 Minuten Online

Advantages
Aside from good training and education, the Pinoy nurses enumerated the advantages of Filipinos over other nationals.

“Sa trabaho maaasahan talaga tayo, masisipag. Kuntento sila (patients) sa atin, mababait daw tayo, matiyaga, magaling mag-pasensiya,” said nurse Lucy Camay who works in Brugg, Aargau.

Concerns were raised by the Swiss over nursing care standards following a recent case of mistreatment and abuse of an elderly psychiatric patient in a hospital in Zürich. Nurses had reportedly ordered the patient to strip and dance naked and had taken photographs of the patient using a mobile phone. The incident raising raised howls of protest over the country.

But Lucy Camay said this would never happen with Filipino nurses “dahil masyadong pasensyoso tayo at iba ang ugali natin.”

Language as a requirement
But the nurses said newcomers would have to learn the local language in Switzerland, which has German, French, and Italian-speaking cantons, and even Swiss Reto-Romanish parts.

“German talaga (ang gamit), ang halo French o kaya Italian. Pero mostly German. At Schweizer-German pa. Hindi lang German, mas malalim pa,” said Camay.

“Karamihan sa mga tao dito hindi marunong mag-Ingles, kaya kailangan talaga ‘yang German sa mga pasyente at sa pagsulat, at saka sa interview ng mga doctors at sa lahat-lahat pa,” Bocalon said

They said however, newcomers can learn the language through intensive six-to-12-month courses or through in-work language trainings offered by employers.

An estimated 15,000 Filipinos live and work in Switzerland, most of them in the main cities of Zürich, Geneva, Basel and Bern. There is a Philippine Embassy in Bern and a consulate in Geneva, although there is also an honorary Consul-General based in Basel.

By BRADY EVIOTA, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau | 04/01/2009 11:52 AM

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The INS made it clear that normal RN positions will not qualify for H-1B visas unless the state where the nurse seeks a license requires a bachelor’s degree. Currently, only North Dakota requires a bachelor’s degree for RNs. The INS did, however, list a number of positions that might qualify for an H-1B visa and the new guidance will hopefully lead to greater consistency in reviewing H-1B petitions.

The following is a summary of the memorandum. The text of the actual memorandum is attached for your review.

General Requirements

In order to qualify for an H-1B visa, an employer of a nurse must show the following:

1. a bachelor’s or higher degree (or its equivalent) is normally the minimum requirement for entry into the position;

2. the degree requirement is common to the industry for parallel nursing positions (i.e., employers in the same industry require their employees to hold the degree when they are employed in the same or a similar position);

3. the employer normally requires a degree or its equivalent for the position or the nature of the position’s duties is so specialized and complex that the knowledge required to perform the duties is usually associated with the attainment of a bachelor’s or higher degree (or its equivalent).

Employers who can meet these requirements can apply for an H-1B visa.

Advance Practice Registered Nurses

The INS also discusses specific nurse positions. First, advance practice registered nurses (APRNs) will generally qualify for H-1B visas because these are advanced level positions requiring more education and training than the typical RN. An employer may require that the prospective employees hold advanced practice certification as one of the following: clinical nurse specialist (CNS), certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA), certified nurse-midwife (CNM), or certified nurse practitioner (APRN-certified). If the APRN position also requires that the employee be certified in that practice, then the nurse will be required to possess an RN, at least a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), and some additional graduate level education.

The INS lists the following positions that will normally qualify for an H-1B visa:

• Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS): Acute Care, Adult, Critical Care, Gerontological, Family, Hospice and Palliative Care, Neonatal, Pediatric, Psychiatric and Mental Health-Adult, Psychiatric and Mental Health-Child, and Women’s Health

• Nurse Practitioner (NP): Acute Care, Adult, Family, Gerontological, Pediatric, Psychiatric & Mental Health, Neonatal, and Women’s Health.

• Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA); and

• Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM).

Administrative Positions

The INS will also approve H-1B visas for certain administrative nurse positions. According to the INS memorandum, “upper level nurse managers” in hospital administration positions may work for H-1B visas since these positions usually require bachelor’s degrees. Nursing Services Administrators should work since these positions involve supervisory functions and they typically require a graduate degree in nursing or health administration.

States that Require Bachelors Degrees

As noted above, the INS will consider an H-1B visa to be appropriate for any RN if the state where the nurse’s position is requires a bachelor’s degree. Right now only North Dakota has such a requirement. This raises the intriguing possibility of making North Dakota a gateway for employers seeking to bring nurses to the US quickly. Two possible scenarios come to mind:

1. A nurse contractor establishes an office in North Dakota and petitions for the nurse to enter North Dakota for their initial orientation with the contractor employer. The employer then files for an I-140 and concurrently files for an I-485 petition and employment authorization document. After the employment document is approved, the nurse could then move to a different state.

2. North Dakota health care facilities and employers can take advantage of this loophole and have easy access to foreign nurses. They can then take advantage of this unique market position and potentially spin off their own staffing companies or cut deals with existing staffing companies to contract their nurse employees to health care facilities around the country using the I-140/I-485 process noted above.

Specialized Nurse Positions

Aside from the Advanced Practice Registered Nurses noted above, nurses in certain specialized areas may file for H-1Bs. The INS specifically cites critical care and peri-operative (operating room) nurses as two examples of positions requiring a higher degree of knowledge and skill than a typical RN or staff nurse position. The INS indicates that passing a certification examination for a particular type of position is an important indicator. Examples of these types of certification examinations are school health, occupational health, rehabilitation nursing, emergency room nursing, critical care, operating room, oncology and pediatrics.

Such nurses should meet the general requirements noted above. Evidence to show these requirements could include affidavits from independent experts or other means showing that the job duties are so specialized and complex that a bachelor’s or higher degree is appropriate. The INS notes that these cases will be adjudicated on a case-by-case basis so the outcome of such applications is far from certain.

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