It's So Hard to Look for a Local Job!!!!

[misspowers]

I recently passed the nclex. I'm so thankful to allnurses, the information here helped me a lot to pass it. Since I reviewed and concentrated on the exam, I resigned from my teaching job. Now it's so hard to look for a job opening for staff nurses here. Even trainings are no longer available. I need to earn and save for IELTS. I'm so tempted to apply at a call center company. Any suggestions? I've been to every hospital that I know (UST, St. Lukes, Chinese, UDMC, Amang, Marikina Valley, Heart center, NKTI, Lung center, V. Luna, PGH) I live in fairview qc. There are offers for volunteer nurse at south superhighway medical center in paranaque but I can't afford to work there!!!! No salary, and its too far...Its so depressing.

[icecreamRN, RN]

Arrgh. it really is so hard to look for a job..and I'm quite depressed right now because I have a friend and we both applied to St lukes hospital and she was called for an interview whereas here I am still waiting for the call and the text message.. sigh.. there's an opening for St luke's hospital in The Fort Bonifacio and it will be operational in October 2009..training will be in SLMC QC.. that's what I heard..sigh I hope I get interviewed too (I scored higher than her in NLE lol)

[casa402]

if you really like clinical experience try inquiring about private duty nurse..i heard there are a lot of patients requiring private duty nurse..if you cant find any try inquiring about a teaching job..although it's not considered as a clinical experience at least you're doing something worthy rather than just bum around..do not just sit there and wait for the something that is indefinite..

Try to maximize your time in the here and now..GOd bless

[Ginger's Mom, MSN, RN]

How can one teach with no clinical experience? Don't you have to obtained a master's degree? Private duty is ok, if you are practicing nursing and not being employed as a glorified maid.

[redlabel]

well i heard also that some hospital are taking advantage of the new graduate that if they want to get an experience they have to pay the hospital just to be able to work as volunteer nurse, this is suck

[Serene_ieg]

"well i heard also that some hospital are taking advantage of the new graduate that if they want to get an experience they have to pay the hospital just to be able to work as volunteer nurse, this is suck"

Yes redlabel, "it sucks".... but that's the reality here in the Philippines. So many things "sucks" but being a resident of this country we just have to bear with it until things changes.

[spongebob6286, BSN, RN]

How can one teach with no clinical experience? Don't you have to obtained a master's degree? Private duty is ok, if you are practicing nursing and not being employed as a glorified maid.

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some were simultaneously taking up their masterals degree while teaching. but i would prefer to have a CI who has atleast 2 yrs experience in a hospital setting that someone who is a fresh graduate. a teacher must have a higher learning than his students. :nurse:

[suzanne4, RN]

Does not matter if they are taking up a Master's degree, they still need to have actual work experience to make it as an instructor.

In no other country will you see this happening and for very good reasons.

[pillilialuis9652]

i am just really confused why there are still so many people taking up nursing now a days you can see them on the street just turn your head and you will see a group of white uniformed adolescents flocking together trying to get a jeep to go to the hospital .do they not know the current state of our nurses,there is an article on Panorama magazine two weeks ago,they all should read it to get a better grasp of the situation we are currently having.i just feel sorry for them they too will be in our current state after a year or so.there are really no jobs in the local hospitals,they will just succumb you with just volunteering to work for them.and here is the kicker you also have to pay them a large sum of money to work for them for free.calling chr,dole,doh,pna, ,what are you doing to help our nurses? which will eventually add to the remittance of our country. as for working outside of the country the requirement is to have a 2-3years post hospital experience on a tertiary hospital.i would advice our government to let all unemployed nurses to work for them in the government owned hospitals so they can get the necessary work experience.

i am also curious to why there is a retrogression, if so many hospitals in the states need nurses to work for them, why is it they are not lifting this retrogression. is it just a conspiracy to let their current crop of students who are currently studying in state universities have these jobs waiting for them when they graduate. i guess it is all for nothing, all those studying and hardwork all for nothing.

[suzanne4, RN]

The retrogression is in place because there are many more applicants than there are visas available for the US. The US has also never had an unlimited supply of visas, and there have been periods in time when there were no nurses that were granted visas for more than five years. There is a shortage in terms of nurses that are at the bedside, but not in terms of licensed nurses in the US.

Your country has close to 950,000 enrolled in nursing schools at this time, the US has just under 10,000 green cards per year for those from your country and that includes spouses and children.

But the other thing that you have to realize is that there are many other countries in the world, that have nurses that actually have paid experience working as nurses, so we are not limited to only nurses from your country. Then add into the equation, the issues with many of the programs not having clinical instructors with work experience, as well as many more students for each patient compared to what it was like in the past, and you have a recipe for disaster.

Your country has to take care of its own first and get the standards back up to what they should be and what they were in the past. If they cannot provide jobs for you, then there is no way that many will ever be able to work as RNs as most countries now are requiring the local license as well as paid work experience. This is something that your country needs to address, it is not the responsibility of the US or any other country to take on. Yuor government officials know exactly what they are doing, and that has to be addressed first.

Yes, it is hard to look for a local job. But then my suggestion would be to create your own. Why can't clinics be set up on some of the smaller islands to provide nursing care to the patients there, as once was done in the past there? Clinics are always needed so if some of you get together and are truly interested in helping people, then this is something that you could do.

Adn would make others take notice. But just complaining that the US does not have any visas now is not going to make any changes for anyone here. And we are actually expecting the US to get tighter in their requirements and not easier. Local licenses are once again being required for some states and that is on the increase. And if one has to wait five years plus for a visa, and if no work experience, then it is going to be almost impossible to get thru the interview with the US Embassy and get a visa issued to you.

Turning the table around, who would you want carrying for you in your country if you were the employer? Someone coming over that has considerable work experience as an RN, or someone that has been out of school for five years and has no experience. Forget about the retrogression, it is getting much harder for one to even find an employer now willing to start the process.

You need to look for jobs in another country, and not just worry about the US. That is just not going to be happening anytime soon.

And I do wish that the word gets out about no jobs even if one spends the money for a four year degree. Just makes no sense at all if you cannot use what you have learned.

Things need to be made better where you are first, before you can expect it to get better anywhere else. It is the responsibility of your government to provide jobs for you, not the US.

[suzanne4, RN]

But let's get back to the topic that is being discussed here and that is finding a job in your country so that you can get adequate work experience.

[nefarious]

for those nurses who are from the provinces but who went to big cities (metro manila, cebu, davao, cgayan de oro, baguio,etc) to study and who cannot find work maybe its best if you wold consider going back to your hometowns. there are several district hospitals in each provinces and one only need to inquire from there on how to apply. don't be choosy on the hospital you want to work with since its impossible to find a hospital accepting staff nurses much less volunteers. aside from the the fact that you can gain hospital experience by working in the district hopsitals, you can also serve the people from your hometown and not just some random patients from the city. AND, you can save on your fare, board and lodging since you will be living in your own home. :)

:wink2:

[casa402]

hi to everyone..although the law requires teachers to have master's degree..some schools allow teachers who have units of MA but are not yet graduates..but those schools require teachers to finish their MA degree within a given time..if teachers failed to comply, they would be automatically be terminated or at least will receive the minimum amount of load or teaching units