Pacs, RN

Since the old thread about this was closed, I'd like to make a new one about it so that we can address it as it is still very rampant in my country, the Philippines: Department of Health Secretary Enrique T. ONA, issued memorandum 2011-0238 mandatin...

Oh please, spare me your naivety. No spoony bard could spin such a sweeter tale...Tears then, for the world you see is beyond my weary sight. Your mind is already set on believing that the people I voted for must be in consensus with everyone else. ...

It's a common misconception that you have to experience something before you can understand it. Second, there is a difference between "I never voted for the people in power at our government" vs. "I never voted at all". Your arrogance have lead to ...

If I was ever employed as a hospital staff nurse here in our country, I wouldn't be here talking about how I am still an unemployed registered nurse now, would I? And just because I was never employed as a public hospital nurse here in our country...

I just wish more of my fellow nurses here in my country actually care about this and fight the grave injustice rather than be willing victims. More of them flock this website right now asking how to be slaves in the big hospitals of the Philippines.

I'm not American. I'm a Filipino born and raised in the Philippines. I have never been to America and I am not eligible to work as a nurse there. I never intended to work outside of my country when I took up nursing. Now I just want to leave nursing ...

Forgive my negativity and cynicism. I have been an unemployed registered nurse here in my country for far too long. I have passed my nursing licensure examination way back in 2009. It is already 2015 and I still cannot land a job in the nursing caree...

It is comforting that there are people like you who would speak in defense of my people. I do not negate the existence of the many fine Filipino nurses abroad. They are what I call jewels in the rough. You are lucky to have met quite a number of them...

That is exactly the kind of apologetic reasoning that keeps our country in the mud. Why is it there are nurses in public hospitals who have to shell the expenses from their own meager income in order to better serve indigent patients? Is it not our g...

Sadly, you are right. I feel that my country has produced nurses who are woefully unprepared for global competency. All I see is corruption and exploitation of the weak. Most nurses here are damn sheeps who allow filth and decay to soil the name of t...

Heheheheh. Nice! This poster made my day.

Oh, there are. And I think nursing is one of the best premedical course if one wants to pursue medicine because you'll have more clinical knowledge and expertise compared to your non-nursing classmates here in med school.

In the third movie, Little Fockers, I think Gaylord Focker was now portrayed as a hospital administrator and that he retains his nursing origins.

That is a doctor's way of thinking, not a nurse's. We must not forget that a nurse's job and function are the three P's: 1.) Promotion of health 2.) Prevention of illness 3.) Palliative care The curative function belongs to the realm of the physician...

Well, it all depends on perspective. If one wishes to be a doctor for the prestige and the title associated with it, then I suggest one to forget it, for the system will consume you. The path into becoming a physician is long and arduous. It entai...

Well if it means anything, I have classmates here in med school who are far older than you are. Ranging from 45 years old to as old as 69 years! The decision to become a physician can be tricky. For some, the decision to be one goes naturally; while ...

Interesting article, czyja. However, I'd like to quote a line from that article: "Despite a very thorough investigation, the mechanism and date of transmission could not be established with certainty, and the patient had had dental...

Of course the ethics police won't come for you (if they even exist ). As I have said earlier, of course we can cry in front of our patients. If you have read the nursing journal I linked, it tells that it is okay to cry in front of our patients as lo...

Well now, what you have said is a great compromise if you ask me. Good for you. What concerned me the most was us handling sharp needles in the first place. With a nurse like you, I'm now certain our patients will be safe from the spread of this viru...

It's just professional ethics. Nurses are supposed to show empathy not sympathy but it doesn't necessarily mean we can't cry in from of our patients. Of course we can! The BON won't go after you if you cry in front of your patients. However as nurses...

It is not uncommon to have a coinfection with hepatitis A and E. In any case, I was simply making a point that we are discussing HIV here and not the other blood borne diseases. If you wish to discuss about those diseases, we can do so elsewhere on ...

As I've said, we are talking about just the HIV positive nurses here. The other blood borne diseases are of different matters. For instance, Hepatitis B has a vaccine, unlike HIV which has no vaccines available whatsoever. Even then, immunocompetent ...

Dude, chill. We are only talking about confirmed HIV positive nurses here. As for the nurses who are not routinely tested for blood borne diseases, they are another story. Anyway, it was already you who stated: "Given such a low risk of almost nil", ...