Re: Volunteer Nurses: Counted as a Work Experience? Originally Posted by Hushdawg 
I absolutely agree. Pinoy nurses should boycott this kind of abuse and not participate in the "pay for traning" scams that hospitals are running. Volunteering is one thing, paying to volunteer is another entirely.
I wish that were true for Pinoy nurses, but unfortunately when they work to achieve career goals they are hit with the "stay in your own damn country" attitude that you can see elsewhere on the boards here.
The Philippines has a surplus of nurses because of the nursing culture that has developed over the bulk of the 20th century. USA and European nations as well as the Middle East have demanded nurses from the Philippines for generations, then all of the sudden that demand was shut off from many sources leaving tens of thousands of nurses unemployed that would normally have gotten jobs without a problem.
I can't speak for other countries, but there was never unlimited immigration to the USA. The was always a limit to how many nurses could come to the USA. My understanding is there has been a growth of nursing grad 10X in the past decade, there would never been enough jobs for these nurses in the USA in the best of times.
Nurses who are educated in the USA are having issues finding jobs also. So I would encourage all Pinoy and US students to rethink nursing and only continue if you want to really be a nurse.
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