barriers of filipino nurses

Silverdragon102, BSN · Mar 10, 2009

Can you give a bit ore information to what the report is for and about?

spongebob6286, BSN, RN · Mar 11, 2009

would that be the same as to what problems do nurses encounter while working abroad? i think long distance communication with their loved ones especially for those who have children..

Daly City RN · Mar 14, 2009

can anyone help me with my report?

what are the barriers filipino nurses are encountering while working abroad?
thank you!

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If coming to the U.S.A., I would say poor English grammar comes to mind as a barrier.

It seems that the quality of education in the Philippines has deteriorated to the point that even teachers who are supposed to teach English grammar to the Filipino students have bad grammar themselves. I have a relative who was a former teacher in the Philippines and who is now living here in the SF Bay Area was heard saying, "Don't do that no more. You're gonna hurt yourself!" Folks, she used to teach English to Filipino students!

Filipinos should stop claiming that the "Philippines is the Third Largest English-speaking Country in the World". It is true that many Filipinos can understand English, but the vast majority of the populace can't speak fluent English, let alone a grammatically correct English. Hey, I'm a product of Philippine education and I had to struggle with my English grammar when I entered college. I had to do extra efforts to improve my grammar but I wish that my teachers had provided me with a much better quality of education beginning from grade school up to the college level. I'm a product of both public and private schools. In high school I attended University of the East (Caloocan City)and Far Eastern University in Manila.

Secondly, the proliferation of substandard schools of nursing in the Philippines is now a major and vexing problem. There is now a troubling perception that all nurses coming from the Philippines are poorly trained. Why is that? There are too many schools of nursing in the Philippines that produce half-cooked nurses. This problem must be corrected immediately.

Schools with low passing rates should be closed down by the government but is that ever going to happen? I think the current administration is so corrupt and the government education officials so inept that the Philippines will continue to produce many nurses who are poorly educated and poorly trained.

What is the Philippine Nurses Association doing about this? I challenge the PNA to do more than what it is currently doing. It should do more to stop the deterioration of nursing education in the Philippines and then to campaign vigorously to raise the standard of nursing education in the country.

With all due respect, the title of this thread "barriers of filipino nurses" should read "Barriers to Filipino nurses".

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