It's So Hard to Look for a Local Job!!!!

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I recently passed the nclex. I'm so thankful to allnurses, the information here helped me a lot to pass it. Since I reviewed and concentrated on the exam, I resigned from my teaching job. Now it's so hard to look for a job opening for staff nurses here. Even trainings are no longer available. I need to earn and save for IELTS. I'm so tempted to apply at a call center company. Any suggestions? I've been to every hospital that I know (UST, St. Lukes, Chinese, UDMC, Amang, Marikina Valley, Heart center, NKTI, Lung center, V. Luna, PGH) I live in fairview qc. There are offers for volunteer nurse at south superhighway medical center in paranaque but I can't afford to work there!!!! No salary, and its too far...Its so depressing. :madface::banghead:

Oh and to top it off...i tried looking for some volunteer work in the hospitals around here in manila. The one hospital i had my eye on, said to me that they dont accept volunteers...why not!! Because they cant afford it? If this is the case then the situation here is worse that i thought...sometimes, I feel like, if things dont change now, this country is going to the dogs. Harsh, didnt mean to be so pessimistic, but lets be real guys...

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This is my exact, same problem. Most of the other countries require 2-3 years experience. UAE requires 2-3 years. 2-3 years also for Australia and New Zealand. Same with Canada and Singapore. Oh.my.god. Stuck in a rut.

It is easier said than done.

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The PRC, CHED and PNA should already know this by now (Oversupply of nurses) & they should take measures to regulate & maintain the quality of the nurses that we produce.

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It is easier said than done.

Sure, sure. But try applying now without a backer. Even volunteer positions are governed by backers.

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Specializes in Telemetry.

Best bet would do some volunteer work. Hospitals will use the term Nurse Trainee but basically all it means is that

1. You are not paid.

2. You pay the facility a monthly fee so that you may go on duty.

The upside is that if and when you get interviewed, you will have some RN experience which you may cite which can be verified by your prospective employer simply by making a phone call to the Nursing Training Office.

Since you are from Fairview, you may want to try De los Santos Memorial Hospital (along E. Rodriguez Ave near St. Lukes). I believe that facility takes Nurse Trainees and are open even to second coursers. I state this as in the Philippines certain current and past members of the Department of Health look at second coursers as second class RNs unlike here in the USA wherein a nurse is a nurse.

Starting out as an RN without any job prospects is a bitter reality which Nurses here in the USA do not experience. As such they may not be able to offer REAL solutions to your predicament. Take the hit: do volunteer nursing if only to get work experience. God will reward you for your sacrifice.

The Philippines is one of the countries wherein age discrimination is a common hiring practice. Some hospitals will not hire nurses older than 25 while others use 30 as the cut-off age.

All this takes place while the former secretary of health tries to make it hard for second coursers to get jobs abroad by having Roadshow Circus presenting a study backed by anecdotal statistics of second coursers allegedly being sent back to the Philippines, or failing to do their jobs as nurses. The latter has not been in the news as of late on account of the Visa retrogression affecting nurses.

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Specializes in Neuro-Surgery, Med-Surg, Home Health.

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I think the problem is that there are now simply way TOO many nurses in the Philippines looking for limited number of local nursing jobs. To make matters worse, there are reportedly over 900,000 student nurses poised to graduate in just a few years, thus aggravating the current problem of large number of unemployed nurses in the Philippines. The incompetents in the Philippine government have allowed too many new schools of nursing to open for business, and many of those schools of nursing offer sub-standard teaching as reported by the local media. A number of the graduates from these sub-standard schools of nursing may find their way working for hospitals abroad, and since they got such low quality of education and training, though not entirely of their own fault, they would then become painful liabilities instead of assets to those hospitals. This will only hurt the image of the Filipino nurses, until recently were known for tender loving care and possessing world class quality of education and training. It was no wonder Filipino nurses were sought after by foreign recruiters, but sadly with the recent proliferation of sub-standard schools of nursing in the Philippines, this image of Filipino nurses may forever be changed in the negative way. The entire Filipino nursing community will then be affected.

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Best bet would do some volunteer work. Hospitals will use the term Nurse Trainee but basically all it means is that

1. You are not paid.

2. You pay the facility a monthly fee so that you may go on duty.

The upside is that if and when you get interviewed, you will have some RN experience which you may cite which can be verified by your prospective employer simply by making a phone call to the Nursing Training Office.

Since you are from Fairview, you may want to try De los Santos Memorial Hospital (along E. Rodriguez Ave near St. Lukes). I believe that facility takes Nurse Trainees and are open even to second coursers. I state this as in the Philippines certain current and past members of the Department of Health look at second coursers as second class RNs unlike here in the USA wherein a nurse is a nurse.

Starting out as an RN without any job prospects is a bitter reality which Nurses here in the USA do not experience. As such they may not be able to offer REAL solutions to your predicament. Take the hit: do volunteer nursing if only to get work experience. God will reward you for your sacrifice.

The Philippines is one of the countries wherein age discrimination is a common hiring practice. Some hospitals will not hire nurses older than 25 while others use 30 as the cut-off age.

All this takes place while the former secretary of health tries to make it hard for second coursers to get jobs abroad by having Roadshow Circus presenting a study backed by anecdotal statistics of second coursers allegedly being sent back to the Philippines, or failing to do their jobs as nurses. The latter has not been in the news as of late on account of the Visa retrogression affecting nurses.

The training programs where the nurse pays for it is considered training and nothing more when it comes to work experience. It is not considered as experience by most.

This is something that your wonderful government needs to address instead of permitting more nursing schools to open and continue on with this greed only filling their pockets and not helping anyone.

When you start with CIs that have no experience working in a hospital and started that role as a new grad, then there experience in what they are trying to teach someone is only as good as the experience that they received, and that is lacking in many programs.

Wish that a new requirement was that these government officials were forced to be treated by some of the new grads from programs that they okayed to take care of them or their family members, and then only would you see things start to change.

Unfortunately, I expect it to get even much worse and not better since the nursing student enrollment has gone from 632,000 a year ago to about 950,000 now.

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South Africa is actively recruiting but not sure what their requirements are.

But do know that they have a shortage at this time.

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Even applying as nursing assistant to Canada, they need at least 3 to 5 years work experience. No way can the new graduates compete with that! I know many in these forum says that it is very demeaning for BSN to work in that position. BUT considering that even volunteers has no place to go ... what really is there for newly graduate nurses in the Philippines?

I have two friends who decided to enroll in UK's NVQ3 & 4. They are CI's in a caregiver school here, in the Philippines. They are leaving on May 4 . They will be getting an anuual salary of GBP11,500 whilst they learn. (NVQ are work related) . They plan that by the end of the 2 year study, they could go and work in other coutries in Europe. (UK requires that students must get out of UK once they finish their course) or come back to the Philippines with no less than a UK certificate! This will definitely give them an edge over the rest !

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hello yup i agree with you guys, its so hard to look for a work here to get an experience and to be able to enhance our skills/ knowledge, How can a fresh graduate will gain such experience in a hospitals if most of the hospitals here has training or volunteers fees aside from too hard in searching hospital that can hire even trainings and volunteers here are full, so what is the best thing that we should do?? Do you have any suggestion SUZZANE? Hope you could give us some ideas...

and btw is there any countries that accepts fresh graduate nurses/newly RN's so we can have experience and with salary at the same time??( Coz no offense here is you have to pay for your trainings or volunteers and its too expensive that's why i would like to gain exp even in other country) i heard some place at the middle east hired newly RN's??

looking forward for your response MS. Suzzane..thanks

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sigh! my LORD!!!:crying2:

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Guys just keep on trying & don't stop. I found employment after 4 months of looking for one. The key is persistence.

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