Nursing boom is coming to an end. A few years ago, nursing schools are sprouting like mushrooms and thousands of student are reeling to enrolled in nursing which was selling like hotcakes then. But eventually it burst that left hundred thousands of nurses unemployed. A grim scenario that was predicted to happen.
It is unfortunate to note that nurses has no other way but to undergoes training after training or doing voluntary job (even meals are not free) just for the experience sake. It is painstakingly hard to understand that nurses are required to pay (from 1,000 pesos to as high as 15,000 or more)for their voluntary work or training where in fact they are a big help for the institution they are serving.
Nurses are even willing to accept a pay that can not commensurate for their hard work and some benefits are not even provided. Indeed, it is pitiful but nurses are resilient because they needed the experience for them to find greener pasture in the other side of the world. A big blow to the nursing profession in our country.
I would like to think that nurses are "jewel" exports to countries whose healthcare system demands huge manpower on which Filipino nurses can fill in. It is unfortunate that our own country degrade itself to be the training ground for nurses who will soon left out the country. Soon highly experienced nurses will be scarce and our country will be left out with new, inexperienced nurses. Another blow to our crippling healthcare system.
There are no solutions available because the government is inutile to prevent the massive brain drain. The attempt of the government to provide employment or programs is unsustainable considering the fiscal problem that grips our country. Again, another blow to the already burn out,distraught employed/unemployed nurses in the country.
Despite the bleak and uncertain future of nurses in our country, they remain to be patient amidst the wounds that they did not even bother to mind. Even if it is being punch a hundred times and continues to bleed, nurses are not made to be knocked out.
Continue to dream on!
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