I am new here. I was a male LPN in western Canada, 11 years experience. Been out of practice for 6 years now. I am looking at enrolling for the Bachelor of Science in Nursing at De La Salle University in Lipa, Batangas Province, Philippines. Much less expensive to live and study in Lipa for 4 years. Wondering if there are any De La Salle grads around here, especially any who may be working in Canada now?
How did you find the program? Any trouble meeting Canadian nursing requirements? I plan on returning to Canada after I am done. I might work in Filipino hospital for a year or so just so I can say I did it and to innoculate me from whining about Canadian wages when I return....
The nurses told us they did not remove staples and sutures, fit or change ostomy bags. They claimed that this was the Doctors responsiblity. Some had no experience in chest/breath sounds. They seemed to be really focussed on meds. One told us that am and hs care should be done by the NA's not a nurse.
Total care seemed a new concept to them.
I don't know if what they told us was true but they all said the same thing.
Wow, my PN students ( I just cover them last week) , my clinical day consisted of showing them how to take out sutures and several students asked me to check their patient's breathe sounds.
Ostomy bags can be done by a good CNA. I also teach my students PM care is an excellent time to do their assessments. I did get some push back until a student was concerned about her patient's bowel sounds, but was satisfied after doing a complete assessment while doing PM care.
Specializes in Mental Health, footcare, geriatrics.
Sounds like Canada has been go to you, why not support this country by getting your education there?
Is it really less money when you factor in air fares, time lost waiting for paper work being process, the chance you may not pass the nle or CRNE?
I guess its subjective wether Canada has been good to me or not. I lost my nursing license in 2002 for picketing Planned Parenthood Regina over their practice referring minors (11 - 15 year olds) for abortions and birth control without parental notification. During my discipline trial I had an RN show up unsolicited to testify in my defense, she was moved by reading about me in the local newspaper and was upset about her 14 year old daughter getting Morning After Pills (MAPs) from Planned Parenthood without her knowledge. She found out about them when she accompanied her daughter to the hospital after finding her in the basement bleeding and in pain. Its nice to talk about "child autonomy" until you find your own daughter bleeding in that state and only find out why after the two of you hit the ER.
Anyways inspite of truth and decency being on my side I was told picketing a "health care provider?" during my time off work was a professional misconduct and I was fined $15,000 and suspended from the profession until I paid the fine. I chose to leave the profession and fight rather than submit and pay. Anyways 5 years and 3 appeals later I won at the Supreme court of Canada and set a free speech and conscience precident that benefits all Canadian nurses who wish to speak to controversial issues during their time off work.
During the last few years I have tried my hand at welding and driving heavy trucks (quite a departure from the only profession I have known which was nursing).
Anyways nursing schools in Canada all have waiting lists (some for years) so I doubt they will miss me that much.
Airfare to Phils is about $2000. Tuition at De La Salle College for their BSN is about $850 CDN for a full semester. I can live in Lipa City (room and board) for about $300 CDN a month while I go to school. The savings over a 4 year period is quite substantial providing of course I can work after I am finished. To this end I really appreciate everyone's input as I evaluate the efficacy of getting my nursing degree from somewhere other than Canada.......
The nurses told us they did not remove staples and sutures, fit or change ostomy bags. They claimed that this was the Doctors responsiblity. Some had no experience in chest/breath sounds. They seemed to be really focussed on meds. One told us that am and hs care should be done by the NA's not a nurse.
Total care seemed a new concept to them.
I don't know if what they told us was true but they all said the same thing.
Maybe because a lot of hospitals here follow functional nursing.. and new nurses usually are assigned as medication nurses first..and furthermore,with the nurse patient ratio here in phil,it is impossible for nurses to do the am/hs care.. So many patients with so little staff nurses,thats is why the am care is assigned to midwives(that's our NA's here).
Ginger's Mom, MSN, RN
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Could you tell us what skills the Philippine nurses were not trained in? Also are they planning on hiring more nurses?