to my fellow filipina/filipino nurses working abroad

[nursey2008]

Hello,

I've been working now for 10 months in Ireland both in a nursing home and later as agency nurse in hospitals. I must say I generally have been very sad about quite a few incidents with fellow nurses especially coming from the philippines. I gotta be fair. there have been some who have been really good colleagues but in quite a few wards I saw filipino staff teaming up against european nurses. They speak their own language with each other at work, treat fellow european nurses not very nicely, in at least 8 different wards i have witnesses filipino staff teaming up in order to make european staff look bad. Please my fellow filipina/o nurses I am not directing this against you personally, its rather something I experienced in so many of the wards where I work and was actually quite appalled and would like to raise some awareness. Through behaviour like this foreign nurses make their country look so bad and don't really earn respect. I know there are many of you out there from the philippines who are great nurses and kind people. I have some philippino friends myself but honestly I started to feel uncomfortable when I'm coming to a ward with mainly filipino staff. This is very sad and we should all work together in peace with equal respect.

[clinicalteach]

crap..its late, so please spare me the flame citations from the grammar and spelling police.