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We will start this as a new sticky thread to give you ideas of what can be done and started in your country, and you can get credit for the experience. But it is going to involve work on your end to do it. This is not going to be used as a thread to make complaints about your government, but it is to be used as a source of what you can do to make things better for you as well as the patient population there.

All of these things were started in other countries as there was a need for it and there is absolutely no reason that one of you could not create your own job. And actually do something in nursing to help someone.

1. Patient education with setting up training centers for new mothers, or teaching patients about their medications, providing education for any area of nursing.

2. Outreach programs, such as what was done or should have been completed when you were in your nursing program. These all started from nothing and with minimal expense.

3. Parish nursing,. All churches should have something in place; even for just blood pressure checks, etc.

4. Hospice nursing. This started by individuals and now is a thriving area of nursing.

5. Outpatient clinics on islands where there is little to no medical care.

Please feel free to add to the list here......................

And use this thread only for listing things that can be done.

Most newly licensed nurses do not get acute care experience right out of school, I think anyone who could set up a program would be very marketable.

Shouldn't the goal be to practice nursing and not to leave your home country anyways?

Then maybe if things work out like this, then we will see a decrease in agencies that sell nurses like slaves and could care less about them.

Best of luck to all of you that are willing to think outside the box.

It can be done and very successfully at that.

if i am to work as a school nurse, is it considered as a work experience?

Yes, but not for acute care. I would tryto make the best of this experience by developing health programs and individual plans of care for children with complex needs.

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My husband and I are planning to set a foundation for those poor bright students who wanted to go to college. Its like study now, pay later. The "pay later" means those of our graduate students who will become successful to their careers. They will be the one to help us fund our foundation for the next batch to come.

It will be 30 yrs from now but I only want to share it. We have to work so hard first and by the time we retire, we will go back to the Philippines and spend our life helping our fellow Filipinos but we will focus on education.

I am all for this. We can start in our own communities. Kudos to all those who thought of this. Let's us spread the idea to anyone you know, so that we could reach more communities. Just a trivia, as of 2008, there are still 160 towns in the Phillipines which has no local doctor treating the population. So this could be a start of a very good endeavor.

There may be nursing organizations that would help to fund such plans, if you put together a plan like a business plan, you could submit to nursing organizations to help fund a wonderful idea.

I am a new RN and I just had my oathtaking ceremony on the 20th. Our keynote speaker was a professor who began to speak about her hopes for the future of Filipino nurses and this thread is connected to what she said :). She encouraged us to explore our country as there are many areas that truly lack proper health care and health resources.

I once had the privilege of helping educate our auxillary health workers from the mountain provinces in my university. We taught them basic CPR, vital signs taking and preparation of herbal remedies. I was moved by the story one of our students told me, of how she had lost her daughter to a status epilepticus attack because she didn't know what to do to help.Despite this harrowing experience, she motivated herself to remain as a health worker and voluntarily joined the course to improve herself.

Nurses play a large role in client education and can play an even larger role in helping mobilize the grass-roots level workers. It is these workers who are present in all the health centers scattered across the country and if the nurses can help pass on their knowledge then change can begin little by little I think, with consistency and continuity. Our Department of Health provides training for them - but I believe that a little help from the professional nurses esp. with policy reforms and in refining the methods of instruction can help boost the programs.

Our keynote speaker also began to discuss something along the lines of establishing a more solid foundation for aspiring nurse practitioners in our country - wherein the nurse may one day establish his/her own clinic to provide service for families.

I think this is also a good idea - and it has much potential. To become an NP is a dream of mine and perhaps one day I can contribute to this effort of the nurses who have gone before me :) after much study and hard work.

just a wild thought..

is it possible for us to form a group, those who are willing to help and reach out? (voluntary)

i've been thinking about what suzanne suggested, i just don't know what or where to inquire.. i have talked my previous classmates into this.. they just ended up teasing me.. :sniff:

this is one of my vision actually to put up like a sort of nurse clinic in our town and i asked my cousin who is a newly grad doctor..

im still thinking where to start, how to and may aspects especially with the services that we should offer.

services that are unique to nursing and not a typical medical clinic

SUPERB IDEA SUZANNE! :up:

Funny, I just posted in WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO DO AS RN thread about my long term plan of putting up a hospital in Siargao Island before reading this thread. My heart totally started racing as I read through the ideas of people similar to what I'm thinking, I just didn't have the idea that I can start small like the what you've suggested.

I hope someone can post how to do that, how to start at least...or can we just pull a DIY (do-it-yourself) and use raw knowledge we've learned from nursing school? Another thread for that topic would help!

Chill_out, maybe we can start that group you suggested?:wink2: but I dont know if it would work of we live in different regions.

There are many NGOs that provide avenues for participating in medical missions :) Just be careful about which ones you join. There may be some in your locality that are comprised of private practitioners or there may be larger more organized ones such as Red Cross.

I personally am a member of a small group in our church. The group has been providing free medical, dental and dermatological consultation and services for the past 10 years specifically for the indigent families who come to the clinic. I and the other volunteer nurses do mostly clinical assessment and vital signs taking to speed things up for the doctors.

As for establishing independent nursing practice - there are actually nurse practitioner programs available in some tertiary institutions here in the Philippines. It is the matter of licensure and regulation that needs to be explored. If perhaps we want to give independent practice a shot - we should contact the Board of Nursing and inquire about whether it is possible and what are our roles and responsibilities.

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