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Faces of the Boom: Nurses from Philippines give boost to Oil Patch health care
The Fargo-Moorhead Forum ^ | February 23, 2014 | Amy Dalrymple

Posted on 02/23/2014 5:07:13 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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41 posted on 02/23/2014 8:25:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, pigs and chickens on the spit are most common here.
My wife orders a roasted pig for any party that we have.


42 posted on 02/23/2014 9:11:15 PM PST by AlexW
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To: Rembrandt

I think I have never met a Filipino who couldn’t sing. We have friends we have gone camping with. Best singing around the campfire I have ever heard.


43 posted on 02/23/2014 9:24:53 PM PST by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: llevrok
It seems nurses don't have so much trouble getting hired almost anywhere if they are well qualified.

One thing the article doesn't mention: when the boom came and populations doubled in Williston and increased significantly in Minot, there were also medical staff who were retiring because of the looming ACA (AKA Obamacare). So, in a way, for medical facilities there was a double whammy.

BTW, decades ago when I was born, the attending physician was from the Philippines. He remained in practice within 100 miles of DC for the rest of his life, and was my physician as a young man as well (before I moved west). He was an excellent doctor.

As for the current trend, it sure beats having understaffed hospitals and clinics.

44 posted on 02/23/2014 9:50:39 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: South Dakota
Fargo and Bismark (with Grand Forks you have the Trifecta) of towns with populations over 100,000 in the State.

Unfortunately, that's the more liberal group and about half of the State population. Check out a county map of the last US Senate election (where Heitkamp won) and you'll see the split. Blue in the East and on the Reservations, Red in the west.

45 posted on 02/23/2014 9:58:40 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Rembrandt

I refer you to my Post 16. Maybe your experiences have been different.


46 posted on 02/23/2014 10:23:40 PM PST by Argus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just hope they speak English at work.


47 posted on 02/23/2014 10:33:42 PM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Today America is just an economic zone for foreigners to flit in and out of as they please


48 posted on 02/24/2014 12:22:01 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Berosus

Spent a few years putting in wells in Nth Dakota and Wyoming, all I’ll say is get ready for the shock of your life. Bitter cold ad it stays that way for along time, plus they’re having the problem we are here in the Permian Basin. The housing shortage is bad with people paying enormous amounts of money for little housing. One bedroom apartments that once rented for 400 a month are now going a thousand and more, a two bedroom two bathe house will bring 1500 to 1700 a month. FEMA trailers are going for 800 a month and they’re parked in Man Camp’s all over the Permian Basin. While I apreciate what Sean is trying to do it’s not the cakewalk he make it out to be.


49 posted on 02/24/2014 2:43:20 AM PST by Dusty Road
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To: Berosus
My wife of four years landed in Pittsburgh in March of 2010, in about ten inches of snow.

She couldn't believe she was living in the land of halo-halo !

It quickly became spring and during that summer, I bought all KINDS of winter stuff she obediently accepted, but I think secretly thought I was nuts.

Sure enough ... winter came again about eight or so months later and ... waddaya' know?, she jumped right INto snow/cold living.

She has since told me she doesn't mind the cold and snow because she has the clothing.

THIS year in SW Pa., because of extended exrtreme cold, her only complaint was keeping her feet warm ...

I just said, welcome to winter.

50 posted on 02/24/2014 3:14:46 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Red6
I never thought of it until just now, your comment sparking my thinking ...

If there were NO imported talent, and the economy is as screwed as we think it is ... how many more business and industries would just fold because they couldn't pay the help?

Not trying to start trouble, but the less expensive imported labor does fulfull a place where "easing" might keep a company (and the product(s) we love) afloat.

Just sayin'

51 posted on 02/24/2014 3:21:27 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: WVKayaker
Ma'ayong hapun ...

Your recipe sounds delicious ... we're gonn'a give it a try this week

52 posted on 02/24/2014 3:26:39 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: AlexW
Only a dozen because your wife stops you from eating them all

Or am I projecting ?

/8^)

53 posted on 02/24/2014 3:28:18 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: WVKayaker

No cassava cake? you’re missing out...


54 posted on 02/24/2014 3:33:01 AM PST by Neidermeyer (I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)
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To: knarf

“Only a dozen because your wife stops you from eating them all”
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Oh, I save a few for her ;)


55 posted on 02/24/2014 3:51:29 AM PST by AlexW
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To: WVKayaker

We just got back from the mountains. Haidi has the keys to the house, so until she shows up, we are locked out. Some luck huh? I am doing WIFI from outside.


56 posted on 02/24/2014 4:03:40 AM PST by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Vet 70-71 Msgt US Air Force, retired)
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To: Mark17

Locked out in 80 degree paradise ... I can handle it.


57 posted on 02/24/2014 4:06:37 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Dusty Road
a two bedroom two bathe house will bring 1500 to 1700 a month

I think if anything your figures are low.

Friend of mine has a small house in Culbertson, hardly in the middle of the action, and five years ago he was renting it for three grand a month.

Haven't talked to him lately. Big lefty, hates oil, thinks the world will operate on sunshine and hot air. But his Bakken rental check just bought him a retirement home in Arizona.

58 posted on 02/24/2014 4:10:08 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Smokin' Joe

Yup. It’ s the same way in South Dakota


59 posted on 02/24/2014 4:12:43 AM PST by South Dakota (shut up and build a bakken pipe line)
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To: Berosus

Tell her this tale.....

My mother became friends with Let let, a Philippina nurse in Al Khobar Saudi Arabia. I took an engineer there from Medina Minnesota to look at some of his equipment having problems. He stayed about three weeks. He took a shine to Let let.

They married. She worked as a nurse in Minnesota, rising to supervisor and mother of 3.


60 posted on 02/24/2014 4:20:58 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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