Hello everyone.
I just registered to allnurses.com and have been going through the
threads in the Filipino Forum, being, of course, a Filipino nurse.
After going through several threads, I found out that as usual,
there are no complaints regarding how much the nurses in the
Philippines are getting.
As usual, most of the threads are about going abroad. It's ok to
post threads on going abroad, but why aren't there any threads about
the salaries that the nurses receive in Philippine hospitals?
WHY DON'T PEOPLE TALK ABOUT IT?
Why should Filipino nurses in a hospital setting in the Philippines
STOP complaining about their salary? I'm sure, UNTIL NOW, they are
not getting enough. I used to work in a private hospital in Cebu
City in the mid 90s and they were giving me below basic. OVERWORKED
AND UNDERPAID. I got out after almost a year and went to work in
Manila and worked in sales.
Now, I have my own business and I still see the disappointment I
felt years back, in nurses that I have come to know who are still
working in the Philippines. Some nurses in the Philippines are
getting salaries slightly higher than that of a foreman in a
construction site...a construction for a house, mind you, not a
building. And some get lower than what carpenters get on a daily
basis. I'm sorry if this is my comparison, but I needed one.
IT IS NOT CHEAP TO GET A NURSING DEGREE. And it is hard work to get
the degree. But in the Philippines, some nurses are still getting
below the basic salary mandated by the law. Let me rephrase
that...MOST NURSES ARE STILL GETTING BELOW THE BASIC SALARY MANDATED
BY THE LAW.
WHY?
Why aren't the officers of the PHILIPPINE NURSES ASSOCIATION or the
OPERATING ROOM NURSES ASSOCIATION OF THE PHILIPPINES doing anything
for the salaries of their members throughout the Philippines?
I have attended too many nursing conventions in the Philippines,
that, really, costs so much, and really is a lot of crap. They talk
about a lot of things, but nothing that is of importance. They
should start talking about how to get a salary increase in a
hospital in the Philippines. They should start talking to hospitals
and think of ways to increase the salaries of everyone in the
nursing service.
I want to understand what the PNA and the ORNAP is for. I am a
member of both organizations and have yet to see them do something
for their members aside from collecting annual dues, selling bingo
tickets and soliciting for something or the other.
The way I see it, in a hospital setting in the Philippines, the
higher you go up the heirarchy of positions, the bigger your salary,
the closer you get to the administration, the lesser your complaints
are, if at all you have any, regarding salaries.
Supervisors and Nursing Directors take the side of the
administration with regards to salaries and wages of the nursing
personnel.
WHY?
A lot of why's that will probably remain unanswered.
And the exodus continues.