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Do you guys think that geriatric nursing and nursing homes will soon become popular in our contry? I mean a lot of the younger people these days work now, so there's not much people left at home to take care of our elderly... Culture-wise we tend to have our grandparents stay at home so we can take care of them, but I feel like that's changing...especially with people moving to urban areas or out of the country, leaving their parents behind..

My grandfather doesnt have anyone taking care of him at his house...All his sons and daughters are working in far cities/ abroad..

And I have in my mind my great grandmother who is 90y/o. The last time I visited her she was crying to me and telling me that they (my relatives who are taking care of her) were not treating her good and that they yell at her when she gets incontinent...I wish I could put her someplace where I can be sure that she's really cared for...

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A brilliant thread you have started here Suzanne. I do hope that most Filipino nurses, if not all, become inspired to do something in their own little ways.

It would be nice if those who have started this kind of programs can share their knowledge and experiences on how to start - permits, funding and all.

I'm very impressed of those who get involved in this kind of projects but nurses may wonder if this will constitute as a valid experience should they decide to apply for jobs overseas. In my opinion, I think it should. Think of all those transferable skills that you have acquired. It is entirely up to the applicants to sell themselves to the interviewer.

The only issue I could think of is, if the agency will even consider your resume in the first place. I believe they will most likely require acute hospital experience.

1. Patient education with setting up training centers for new mothers, or teaching patients about their medications, providing education for any area of nursing.

2. Outreach programs, such as what was done or should have been completed when you were in your nursing program. These all started from nothing and with minimal expense.

3. Parish nursing,. All churches should have something in place; even for just blood pressure checks, etc.

4. Hospice nursing. This started by individuals and now is a thriving area of nursing.

5. Outpatient clinics on islands where there is little to no medical care.

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Most newly licensed nurses do not get acute care experience right out of school, I think anyone who could set up a program would be very marketable.

Shouldn't the goal be to practice nursing and not to leave your home country anyways?

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Then maybe if things work out like this, then we will see a decrease in agencies that sell nurses like slaves and could care less about them.

Best of luck to all of you that are willing to think outside the box.
It can be done and very successfully at that.

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if i am to work as a school nurse, is it considered as a work experience?

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Yes, but not for acute care. I would tryto make the best of this experience by developing health programs and individual plans of care for children with complex needs.

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My husband and I are planning to set a foundation for those poor bright students who wanted to go to college. Its like study now, pay later. The "pay later" means those of our graduate students who will become successful to their careers. They will be the one to help us fund our foundation for the next batch to come.
It will be 30 yrs from now but I only want to share it. We have to work so hard first and by the time we retire, we will go back to the Philippines and spend our life helping our fellow Filipinos but we will focus on education.

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I am all for this. We can start in our own communities. Kudos to all those who thought of this. Let's us spread the idea to anyone you know, so that we could reach more communities. Just a trivia, as of 2008, there are still 160 towns in the Phillipines which has no local doctor treating the population. So this could be a start of a very good endeavor.

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There may be nursing organizations that would help to fund such plans, if you put together a plan like a business plan, you could submit to nursing organizations to help fund a wonderful idea.

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I am a new RN and I just had my oathtaking ceremony on the 20th. Our keynote speaker was a professor who began to speak about her hopes for the future of Filipino nurses and this thread is connected to what she said . She encouraged us to explore our country as there are many areas that truly lack proper health care and health resources.

I once had the privilege of helping educate our auxillary health workers from the mountain provinces in my university. We taught them basic CPR, vital signs taking and preparation of herbal remedies. I was moved by the story one of our students told me, of how she had lost her daughter to a status epilepticus attack because she didn't know what to do to help.Despite this harrowing experience, she motivated herself to remain as a health worker and voluntarily joined the course to improve herself.

Nurses play a large role in client education and can play an even larger role in helping mobilize the grass-roots level workers. It is these workers who are present in all the health centers scattered across the country and if the nurses can help pass on their knowledge then change can begin little by little I think, with consistency and continuity. Our Department of Health provides training for them - but I believe that a little help from the professional nurses esp. with policy reforms and in refining the methods of instruction can help boost the programs.

Our keynote speaker also began to discuss something along the lines of establishing a more solid foundation for aspiring nurse practitioners in our country - wherein the nurse may one day establish his/her own clinic to provide service for families.

I think this is also a good idea - and it has much potential. To become an NP is a dream of mine and perhaps one day I can contribute to this effort of the nurses who have gone before me after much study and hard work.