a group of filipino medical practitioners is endorsing a bill in congress that requires new graduates of medicine and nursing courses to serve in philippine hospitals for at least two years before seeking employment overseas.
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in the same report, the philippine nursing association (pna) echoed the stand of pma but raised concern that job opportunities for medical professionals in the country might not be enough to accommodate fresh graduates.
"there should be jobs [for medical practitioners], but there are none," said leah paquiz, pna president.
"the government should create jobs for doctors and filipino nurses, as well as all medical practitioners," she added.
just a heads-up to fellow filipino nurses.
file your papers and get on the next available plane.
i wonder where they plan to put the 600,000 nurses who will be graduating in the next few years, when most nurses cannot find decent paying jobs in the philippines.
emphasis on decent paying.
there are lots of jobs, but indecently paying. because some hospitals will ask the nurse to pay the hospitals for the questionable privilege of working in these hospitals.
as for the poor unfortunate souls who once in their lifetime dreamt of being a doctor...and achieved that dream...never in their wildest nightmares did they envision that the md after their names will turn to albatrosses around their necks.
2 years is a long time to be held captive in as supposedly democratic country.
and they cannot even give these professionals decent pay.
agree to you guys...im a fresh graduate and ive been looking for a job for almost 3months already... but the situation is you need to pay first the hospitals for "the training" before you can start with them and there's no assurance that you can be absorbed after that very expensive training...what more if I'm going to stay here for two years...maybe in that duration of time iv already a work but not in the hospital that gives very unjust salary...Kindly give us a job that provides a good job hygiene then we might agree to such regulation...
"... pay first the hospital for the training?" This is so pathetic. I don't think this bill will pass anyway, the government is more hungry for dollars than keeping its nurses.
how i love to speak in tagalog in answering this forum! ggeezz! hello??????????? then where will you put them on work??? just a clever suggestion to the person who thought of passing this bill to the congress, THINK OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR PLANS FIRST OK"? as if there are alot of hospitals here that are open for hiring! and yeah, if you dont want nurses to leave the PI, increase the salary! (hhhooooooooo..how i wish i can really speak tagalog right now to truly express what i feel)
It is a really good idea! BUT, they should limit that to those who graduated using the STATE funds. After all the government spent for their education, it's about time they pay back. It will NOT be fair for those of us who labored ourselves (or our parents/relatives) to death just to send us to school. This must not apply to Nursing or Medicine alone, but should be implemented to all profession.
Maybe some people are not aware about this but it has been implemented for years already. Those who went to school by DOST scholarship cannot go out of the country. They have to stay in the country the same number of years they stayed in school using the scholarship.
marwan
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"... pay first the hospital for the training?" This is so pathetic. I don't think this bill will pass anyway, the government is more hungry for dollars than keeping its nurses.