Nursing

Nursing is a way of life for most people nowadays. Everybody in the Philippines almost always end up taking nursing as their course in college. Even doctors took up nursing because of desperation to go abroad and because it's a faster ticket when you're a nurse. Everybody has their dream of a greener pasture after graduating and working as a nurse abroad. Their main target - the United States of America or somewhere where they have a residing relative. Some would even settle for other Asian countries just to get out of the country and earn foreign currency.

The sad thing is it's not always a green pasture for most of the Filipino Nurses here in the Philippines. With the current situation of the country, some can't even practice their profession due to an overflow of nurses every year. The Nursing Licensure Examination passing rate is less than 50% but still thousands and thousands more are still honored to pledge as a nurse. Some hospitals have now implemented a system wherein if you want to volunteer in their institution, you need to pay them from Php 3000 up to Php 5000 so you can get a certification and the most important one - EXPERIENCE.

Experience will always be the best teacher - no one can argue with that. The mistakes you commit when you are practicing nursing will be crucial in your growth as a nurse and as a professional. You must learn from your short comings or else you will end up wasting the time you spent in college not to mention all the expenses as nursing is not a cheap course. Your growth can be a rough road or a smooth slide. Your knowledge, skills, and attitude during college can drastically affect you when you are already a nurse.

Everything you learn during college days is very important. During college, you might just take some of your lessons and subjects but what you don't know is that the knowledge you missed because you were busy texting or talking to your seatmate could've been the key to a greener pasture. The school that you are in is also a big factor to your success but it will always be up to you whether you become either a nurse or one who will be nursed.

The time you made a decision to become a nurse either by heart or for profit should've been a firm and stable decision. If you were unsure then you'll be wasting your time and your parent's money. This happened to some people I knew. One quit during our first year to become a cop but from what I heard she never got in because her IQ was too hight(?). One was too intelligent but also uninterested that he got addicted to playing computer games. He was always absent so the outcome was that he failed. His father was called and was explained the reason why his son failed. He was down in tears when he knew nothing could be done. Another one shifted to another course. The last time I saw him he was in a call center and he was good at it.

Speaking of call centers, nurses are also invading this scene. I was one of them and so was 1/4 of my 170 batchmates. Another fourth went into tutoring Koreans. Some nurses today are still in call centers and some are even team leaders or trainers. They can't leave the scene because of practical reasons. They need to earn to live and they can't do this if they volunteer without assurance they'll be absorbed. So they choose to be in jobs where the pay is good and sufficient enough for them to contribute money to their family.

This blog will be of great help to fellow nurses. This blog will be all about nursing and all about us nurses. Feel free to comment and correct me when I'm wrong or even right. Be holistic! Be a nurse!