(It is interesting to note the comment about 400 Nursing Schools have 630,000 students enrolled in the Philippines....are we in danger of ruining the quality and good reputation of Filipino nursing education?)
10,000 Pinoy nurses sought US jobs in the last six months
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 01:45pm (Mla time) 07/20/2007
Almost 10,000 Filipino nurses sought employment in the United States from January to June this year, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) revealed Thursday.
TUCP spokesperson Alex Aguilar said a total of 9,944 Philippine-educated nurses sought jobs in America by taking for the first time the NCLEX administered by the US National Council of State Boards of Nursing Inc. (NCSBN) in the half year to June 30.
That still has nothing to do with what their clinical skills are like. That is what my point it. Do not think that it would make much of a difference. There are already issues with people getting false documentation to submit so that they can even sit for the NLE. The issue becomes that they cannot mask their actual physical skills that are needed. And that is what needs to be tested.
That will be the best weeding out tool. If they are unable to pass an exam like that, then maybe they will pay some attention to where they are attending school. Not sure how anyone believes that they are truly learning anything from many of these programs. There are still only the same handful that has the best reputation there. Wonder why the government is allowing what is going on in the first place?
:monkeydance:just to add on...not only clinical skills is very important here in US, Critical Thinking and Judgement is realy a big thing in everday job as a nurse here in US, I know it takes months or years of experience to have this, but the training in the Philippines as Student which as statistics shows making the training worst and even as a Nurse after graduation doesn't make any difference to make a Philippine graduate to be competent in facing the real world of US nursing jobs. thats why if you will going to look at the NCLEX trends nowadays, most questions are based in critical thinking and prioritization which is really needed in everyday tasks of a nurse where ever area of field he is working, you'll not learn this skills if you'll not handle patient by yourself and do critical thinking and judge what needs to be done to improve the patient condition and be a nurse advocate always!
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That still has nothing to do with what their clinical skills are like. That is what my point it. Do not think that it would make much of a difference. There are already issues with people getting false documentation to submit so that they can even sit for the NLE. The issue becomes that they cannot mask their actual physical skills that are needed. And that is what needs to be tested.
That will be the best weeding out tool. If they are unable to pass an exam like that, then maybe they will pay some attention to where they are attending school. Not sure how anyone believes that they are truly learning anything from many of these programs. There are still only the same handful that has the best reputation there. Wonder why the government is allowing what is going on in the first place?