Nursing is DEAD for Pinoys

Nursing course losing appeal
By Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star) Updated April 19, 2010 12:00 AM

MANILA, Philippines - Fewer students are opting to take up nursing apparently due to the continuing slump in the hiring of health workers in the United States, the country’s largest labor group reported yesterday.

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) said the desire among young Filipinos to obtain a nursing degree and work in the United States appears to have waned.

TUCP secretary-general and former senator Ernesto Herrera cited as example nursing schools in Cebu, which have recorded a drop in the number of enrollees for the past years.

“Nursing schools have aggressively expanded their capacity in the last 12 months, but realized that fewer first-year students are actually entering nursing programs compared to figures for the past two years,” Herrera said.

Herrera also reported a 28-percent decline in the number of Filipinos who sought employment in the United States in the first quarter of the year.

“Only 3,024 Filipino nurses took the NCLEX for the first time from January to March, down 1,170 from 4,194 in the same quarter of 2009,” Herrera said, referring to the licensure examination administered by the US National Council of State Boards of Nursing Inc.

Herrera explained that many recession-hit American employers remained reluctant to hire additional skilled foreign workers, including nurses.

“Instead of recruiting new practitioners, many American hospitals are simply asking their existing nursing staff to render extra working hours,” Herrera said.

He said community hospitals and nursing homes run by state and city governments there are definitely reeling from funding constraints.

Due to the weak labor market in America, Herrera said a growing number of Filipino nurses are seeking foreign employment opportunities elsewhere.

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) previously reported a decline in the number of nursing graduates taking the yearly licensure examination for the past few years.

It's not about the hiring slump in the USA.
It's about how the Philippine system itself is treating the nursing graduates.
They are the ones who have to pay the hospitals to get experience, how do you like that ?
Where else is such a practice done ?
Then, when they do get here, they need to have at least six months' experience working with the elderly.
They already spent a lot of money to get that degree, their own country bilks them for the money, it just doesn't seem worth it anymore.
On the other hand, I'm glad.
We need healthcare workers there ourselves.
All I can say to the government who gets most of its money from expatriates is.....belaaaat !

stupid, greedy parents stop sending your kids to nursing school because they are GOING NOWHERE and NEVER TO THE USA.

The hiring slump for nurses should last for 2 to 3 years due to the US economic downtrend. But it is ridiculous to think that Filipina nurses can be replaced by other nationalities. I have seen what other nurses from other countries can't do. The most important being they can barely be understood by Americans. Being a nurse, communication is key because you have to educate, teach, and communicate with your patients in the clearest way possible.

Hirap na Hirap wrote:

The hiring slump for nurses should last for 2 to 3 years due to the US economic downtrend. But it is ridiculous to think that Filipina nurses can be replaced by other nationalities. I have seen what other nurses from other countries can't do. The most important being they can barely be understood by Americans. Being a nurse, communication is key because you have to educate, teach, and communicate with your patients in the clearest way possible.

NOt only that, but Filipino nurses treat their patients more compassionately and respectfully than most other nurses of other nationalities.
My brother-in-law's wife, while working for her nursing license in the State of New York had to work in an elderlies' facility for a while and they had several patients there who were mean, gruff, and downright bitchy.
One wouldn't allow herself to be bathed.
In less than a week, these were asking for her and refusing the services of other staff.
Why ?
Because where others yelled at the residents and cajoled with obvious patronization, she treated these residents with respect, care, and compassion.
Didn't take her long to climb up the ladder, to the jealousy and consternation of others, until they found out she was actually a nurse.
However, the hiring of foreign nurses are not grounded on those nurses' character but, sadly, on, first and foremost, political expediency, and secondly, on actual need, and right now both are not in the Philippines' favor.

halohalo2 wrote:

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NOt only that, but Filipino nurses treat their patients more compassionately and respectfully than most other nurses of other nationalities.
My brother-in-law's wife, while working for her nursing license in the State of New York had to work in an elderlies' facility for a while and they had several patients there who were mean, gruff, and downright bitchy.
One wouldn't allow herself to be bathed.
In less than a week, these were asking for her and refusing the services of other staff.
Why ?
Because where others yelled at the residents and cajoled with obvious patronization, she treated these residents with respect, care, and compassion.
Didn't take her long to climb up the ladder, to the jealousy and consternation of others, until they found out she was actually a nurse.
However, the hiring of foreign nurses are not grounded on those nurses' character but, sadly, on, first and foremost, political expediency, and secondly, on actual need, and right now both are not in the Philippines' favor.

My sister who is also a nurse is pretty much the same way. All the patients in her ward hate the other nurses. They all request for my sister. When a patient becomes belligerent or unmanageable, they call my sister and immediately the patient complies. When she left the hospital, they were all teary-eyed.

nursing schools are closing down.
nursing is dead.
there is an oversupply of jobless nurses in the philippines

prc gets millions - 1,000 pesos x 70,000 examinees - dats money for gloria to buy votes and a president that will not imprison her.
and the government is silent on this because people are freely giving their money to chase an IMPOSSIBLE AMERICAN DREam. i'T OVER FOLKS, SEND YOUR SURPLUS NURSES TO CALL CENTERS TO GET STD.

halohalo2 wrote:

It's not about the hiring slump in the USA.
It's about how the Philippine system itself is treating the nursing graduates.
They are the ones who have to pay the hospitals to get experience, how do you like that ?
Where else is such a practice done ?
Then, when they do get here, they need to have at least six months' experience working with the elderly.
They already spent a lot of money to get that degree, their own country bilks them for the money, it just doesn't seem worth it anymore.
On the other hand, I'm glad.
We need healthcare workers there ourselves.
All I can say to the government who gets most of its money from expatriates is.....belaaaat !

stfu pinay! YOU ARE CURSED! CURSEDDDDDDDDD!!!!!

stupid parents don't you get it, there is no more demand of future in nursing. send your kids to BIR, CUSTOMS, DPWH or politician career - that's where all the money is and corruption and stealing.

Hirap na Hirap wrote:

The hiring slump for nurses should last for 2 to 3 years due to the US economic downtrend. But it is ridiculous to think that Filipina nurses can be replaced by other nationalities. I have seen what other nurses from other countries can't do. The most important being they can barely be understood by Americans. Being a nurse, communication is key because you have to educate, teach, and communicate with your patients in the clearest way possible.

What a load of crap. I work with tons of Filipino nurses who don't have the courtesy to speak English at work even though they know how. It shows incredible disrespect and is unsafe besides.

halohalo2 wrote:

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NOt only that, but Filipino nurses treat their patients more compassionately and respectfully than most other nurses of other nationalities.
My brother-in-law's wife, while working for her nursing license in the State of New York had to work in an elderlies' facility for a while and they had several patients there who were mean, gruff, and downright bitchy.
One wouldn't allow herself to be bathed.
In less than a week, these were asking for her and refusing the services of other staff.
Why ?
Because where others yelled at the residents and cajoled with obvious patronization, she treated these residents with respect, care, and compassion.
Didn't take her long to climb up the ladder, to the jealousy and consternation of others, until they found out she was actually a nurse.
However, the hiring of foreign nurses are not grounded on those nurses' character but, sadly, on, first and foremost, political expediency, and secondly, on actual need, and right now both are not in the Philippines' favor.

another stupid rasict comment. Yeah I really bet the Filpina just holds an extra amount of compasion in their hearts for patients. They are no better then anyone else and if anything less educated. What kind of idiot would make such a statement.
If there was a withdrawl of jobs available, the ones who would and should get them are the millions of americans training or reschooling in the trade. we do not need people from other nationalities working as nurses.
with the job market the way it is, everyone and their brother are taking nursing courses

cathy pauling wrote:

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What a load of crap. I work with tons of Filipino nurses who don't have the courtesy to speak English at work even though they know how. It shows incredible disrespect and is unsafe besides.

just shows how stuborn and ignorant they can be. The more you learn of the language the more you see how prehistoric it is.

pasig yankeeNY wrote:

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just shows how stuborn and ignorant they can be. The more you learn of the language the more you see how prehistoric it is.

Rules like speaking only English on the job is like everything else to them. Its meant to be broken, they can't help themselves.

Don the American wrote:

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Rules like speaking only English on the job is like everything else to them. Its meant to be broken, they can't help themselves.

Now, now, its'about several hours left and it will be 2012 there in the Philippines and I would like to convey my new year wishes for you and your loved ones not in English but in Pilipino. Masagana at manigong bagong taon sa iyo at sa iyong pamamahay, Don. Harinawa, ang taon 2012 ay magdulot ng kapayapa-an at kaligayahan sa inyong lahat. Happy new year to you Don. ;-)

Wow. I'm here.

well , theres a shortage of nurses in Australia !....actually I thought the Obama health care proposal would increase demand from the US......maybe PI should expand its hospitals for overseas patients, which would also increase demand for nurses at home in PI ?

No more hope for the more than half a million pinoy RNs.

Last immigrant wrote:

No more hope for the more than half a million pinoy RNs.

there is plenty of hope, The philippines has 95 million people and growing at the largest rate in the world. Plenty of their own people to treat

Ever see a school of fish swimming in the sea? Pinoy RNs are like that, once the word spreads that there's an opening let's say Canada, they all rush there, immediately filling up the demand, then it's Australia, then Norway, then UK, then NZ, until these places are overrun with Pinoy RNs. But the USA is now PERMANENTLY closed so what many Pinoys are doing is to pay for fixed marriages. In San Jose, the place is crawling with Ilocanos who use this tactic or loophole to get their whole CLAN AND TOWNSPEOPLE over here. That's Pinoy ingenuity at work. Hello IMMIGRATION.

No more visas.