Critical Care Training in the Philippines

[Infomaniac88]

Can anyone share their knowledge and experience in doing a Critical Care Nursing Training?

From my research the Hospitals that are conducting the trainings are PGH, Philippine Heart Center, and Manila Adventist Medical Center.

Price range from 6, 000-7,500. Duration = 3 months

Requirements = ?

Clinical Experience needed = ?

Will the hospital Hire you after the training = ?

Training Coverage= ?

To those who have knowledge about the training please state what hospital you did your training and please enlighten me on the items above that O have question marks (?)

Lastly, Does anyone know if doing Critical Care Nursing Training counts towards your hospital experience and will it be acknowledge in the US.

Thank you :heartbeat:redbeathe:redpinkhe

[Lyfer, LPN]

You can also check the training at Global CE Provider of America, Inc.

I think some of their trainings are AHA accredited, or maybe just the ACLS.

Maybe clinical experience isn't needed to enroll in Critical Care Nurse training, but there could be pre-requisite training like BLS, ACLS, ECG, IV Therapy.

[suzakucarl]

I think most critical care trainings require to have at least a year of experience.

And trainings are not the same as experience. So trainings don't really add to the years of experience. And experience is more valued than trainings. So a year worth of experience is a lot better than a year worth of just trainings.

And regarding the trainings, almost all of the trainings that you will have in the country are just mere paper in the eyes of US. Even if you are trained locally, the US will still train you when you go abroad to make sure that you are competent. What US look for is experience and not just trainings. I have a cousin who told me that her hospital experience were acknowledged however the various trainings that she had were just disregarded, and that her training certificates were just treated as mere papers.

[Lyfer, LPN]

I think there is also Critical Care Nursing training at Lung Center of the Philippines. Enrollment fee is 3,000php

duration of training Didactic - 40 hours

Practicum - 320 hours

1 year experience as staff nurse is needed, except for those who undergo Basic Skills Training in their institution

Please, verify it with LCP.

By the way, trainings are very important if one is concern for skills advancement, especially if one is newly grad.

And I disagree that training certificates are just mere papers. Why? Because upon your job application, these training certificates add points to the possibility of being hired, and therefor shouldn't be disregarded.

For example, even an ER nurse with 2 years experience might still be required to have BLS, ACLS and/or IVT training when applying for an ER nurse position, and without the said training, application could be rejected.

Training could also open an unexpected opportunity. Like in the case of my friend, who applied for MS ward/ER nurse position, but when the interviewer saw her training in Dialysis, she was offered the dialysis nurse position instead, which offered higher compensation than the former 2 positions.

Most hospitals regularly conduct training for new/old staffs (whether they already have it or not) to abide with the protocols of their institution.

You can observe this not only in US, but also in Philippines.

One good example is St. Lukes ^_^