I am starting my career as a registered nurse here in the philippines. I have been wanting to enter a tertiary institution. I am currently on my volunteer-ship and i observed that here the staff handles a lot of patients. The practice of my current hospital is they have only 1 staff per area per shift. The icu sometimes handles 3-4 patients with just only 1 staff per 8 hours. In the ward the one-staff handles a lot of patients too.