MANILA, Philippine -- (UPDATE) Local demand for nurses has been stagnant as the need for their services consistently fall in the global labor market, the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) said Tuesday.
For the last two years, there has been no increase in the domestic demand while global need for licensed nurses has been consistently decreasing since 2004, PNA data shows.
I am glad that this news was posted and should be read by nurses. It is a proof what the people have been saying here are all true. I hope nursing enrollees decline and parents or relatives insisting their child or others to take up nursing should be alarmed. I feel hatred to these people. Why don't they just let the child be what he wants to be when he grows up? Global demand will continue to fall as the years go by. Although, I am one of those so called "stagnant" nurses. Soon, there will be hundred thousands of stagnant nurses either waiting for retrogression to lift up or do necessary steps to cope up with the nursing situation in the country. My question for my fellow colleagues, what would you do?
