PhilG

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1. Recent Increase in Volunteer Requirement?

   PhilG posted a topic in International

   Our niece graduated from Tacloban and became a licensed, board-certified, RN in 2007. She started working off her required 6-months of volunteer work at a hospital in Lucena. After working about 4 months, she relocated to Tacloban, Leyte. She has...

2. Separate License for IV Meds?

   PhilG replied to PhilG's topic in International

   Ok, so it's true then that when a brand new graduate becomes a licensed board-certified RN, at that point they're still only able to give oral meds until they obtain specific training later, on administration of IV meds. It's interesting that a boar...

3. Separate License for IV Meds?

   PhilG posted a topic in International

   In the Philippines, does it sound plausible that a new licensed, board-certified RN is only able to give oral meds and must take a P2k class during the 6 months of community service to earn a separate license to be able to administer IV meds, which i...

4. 6-Month Community Service Requirement

   PhilG replied to PhilG's topic in International

   Thanks for the informative responses. Wow. It's a brutal situation for nurses. Not a peso to live on for a half a year. And so even though the 6 months without pay is not supposed to apply to those that paid their own way (e.g. through help from ...

5. 6-Month Community Service Requirement

   PhilG replied to PhilG's topic in International

   Does anyone know if it's true what I heard from a surgeon in PI that, specifically in the Philippines, the requirement that a nurse's initial 6-months be without pay applies only to nurses who received financial assistance from the government, wherea...

6. 6-Month Community Service Requirement

   PhilG posted a topic in International

   I have a niece in the Philippines who became a board-certified RN in 2007. She has been working for about a month so far at a government hospital. It was disheartening to learn that she would have to work without pay or even allowance for 6 months,...