difference in nurse ed

[okchug]

Just talked with a friend who is a cardiac nurse. While she has lived in the US for 13 years, she was educated in the Philippines. WOW what a difference in our educational experience. In order to graduate she had to meet very specific hands-on standards along with the book stuff. And it was not a check-off in the lab on a dummy! For L/D they actually had to assist with 10 deliveries- labor, hands on the baby, cut the cord, suction, etc with help from OB. We were lucky to even witness a birth during our whole three days of L/D rotation let alone be involved. Her list went on...in every area they had to check off a number of times on real patients and take their own pt assignments. On many floors we were limited, like ICU- couldn't touch the pts, and Onc- couldn't even enter the room without the nurse!

I just thought it was interesting because of a recent post regarding nursing ed....the more I think about it, the more i do see how they teach to the NCLEX. I know we all had a required number of clinical hours, but those are not always very well spent. there needs to be more balance of book & applied knowledge and more structure to the clinical experience.

[okchug]

Didn't say they were perfect....I was just commenting her experience as she told it & how it compared to mine.

Yes- we also have many programs popping up all over the place- "be an RN in 10 months! "

Regardless of their system...we've got problems of our own.

outta here :) peace