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i'm among the thousand filipinos who took up nursing to get away from the "realities" in this country...sad huh?

the knowledge/skills gained by the health professionals here will be served to foreign lands...but who would care to have that sense of sacrifice in staying here if your genuine service to your people is not compensated justly???:jester:

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Specializes in Acute Care. ER. Aged Care/LTC. Psyche.

We have a surplus of nurses here. But many of them are working in call centers! It's actually an individual's right if s/he wants to work abroad, because we are not compensated here very well. What our dean told us, is to go back to your roots when you already fulfilled your dreams abroad. It makes sense actually.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

If you can't find opportunies here in our own country, its just normal that we'll look for opportunities. Even those working in call centers. Since there are over supply of nurses in our country, hospitals can't avail them all. Partly because lack of budget to pay them. Its just a waste that there are lots of good nurses out there who were not given the chance to work.

Despite all of these problems, if ever one you fulfilled your dreams, dont forget where you came from. Be a blessing to others....

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And why is one going to wish to move back if they are not going to be able to get a job there, as well as the money being paid will not be what they would be getting in another locale as well.

Did the instructor actually live and work overseas and then move back?

It is very different to tell someone that they should consider something when they have not done it themselves.

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I am a second-courser who took up nursing because i found no fulfillment in my previous course. I think everyone works hard and aim high has reasons and almost everyone deserves to succeed. As long as you have good intentions, there is nothing wrong with leaving your country.As for me, my motivation is my family.

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Did the instructor actually live and work overseas and then move back?

It is very different to tell someone that they should consider something when they have not done it themselves.

I dont know about the poster but my best professors are the ones who have gone abroad and came back. Most our senior professors and above are examples of these A lot of them were in the states during the 80's and came back in the mid-90s, to teach. Their stories are really cool (the rise of the AIDS epidemic, the development of the condom etc). Sometimes these stories alone would make us understand the rationale for some concepts and procedures.

Sadly, most of them are in their 50's/60s now, and would just like to leave a legacy, thats why they author books, and ultimately, retire.

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What does "development of the condom" mean?

That little (sorry to the guys reading this) has been around for centuries. It didn't just "appear" in response to the HIV/AIDS development. It's long been known to be a contraceptive and STD preventative.

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What does "development of the condom" mean?

That little (sorry to the guys reading this) has been around for centuries. It didn't just "appear" in response to the HIV/AIDS development. It's long been known to be a contraceptive and STD preventative.

(I wondered the same thing when I saw the post! The condom was the original, and, for hundreds of years, the only contraceptive device available).

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I dont know about the poster but my best professors are the ones who have gone abroad and came back. Most our senior professors and above are examples of these A lot of them were in the states during the 80's and came back in the mid-90s, to teach. Their stories are really cool (the rise of the AIDS epidemic, the development of the condom etc). Sometimes these stories alone would make us understand the rationale for some concepts and procedures.

Sadly, most of them are in their 50's/60s now, and would just like to leave a legacy, thats why they author books, and ultimately, retire.

Unfortunately, this is not the case with the majority of the programs that are there. Most of the clinical instructors now have never been out of the Philippines or even have had experience working as an RN.

You are quite lucky that you have been able to train where you are at.

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(I wondered the same thing when I saw the post! The condom was the original, and, for hundreds of years, the only contraceptive device available).

Yep but when the AIDS epidemic was on the rise, they promoted the condom as "prophylaxis" which we all now is not true because condoms are not 100% effective. There was also a time when the condoms were too thick, too thin, and then there is the rise of the female condom.

Even when they promoted the condom, there were a lot of changes. They modified the latex material for those who are allergic to it.They tried to make it "cooler" by adding various colours and flavours and whatnot.

That is what I meant by "the development of the condom"

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I remember coloured, ribbed, and tickler condoms pre HIV (late 70s and early '80s).

If anything HIV/AIDS made condoms more acceptable. And got rid of the nasty lamb skin ones.

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I remember coloured, ribbed, and tickler condoms pre HIV (late 70s and early '80s).

If anything HIV/AIDS made condoms more acceptable. And got rid of the nasty lamb skin ones.

Yep and thats what I said as well, they were in the US during the 80s.

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