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With the surplus of registered nurses, scarcity of nursing jobs in hospitals and many other challenges Filipino Nurses face in getting a hospital based job, I want to ask you fellow nurses what motivated you to take nursing and given the chance to re-consider your choices knowing that this will be the current trend, would you still have chosen to be a nurse?

Lastly, I would like to ask how your nursing career has been. Please comment below where you currently work, do you have any specializations like CRN, EMT, etc., and are you happy with what you are and where you are right now? :D

i just want to ask, does it matter if i worked in a bpo industry? i mean, if i will apply as a nurse to some hospitals, are they gonna use it against me? im afraid that they wont accept me bec it has been a year already since my last training (ivt and bls).

BLS has its 1 year to expired so if its more than 1 year you must renew it while in IVT it has 3 years to expired. Some hospitals may ask your BLS if its expired or not, so if you want to apply check your trainings first. I say it because it happened to me.

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BLS has its 1 year to expired so if its more than 1 year you must renew it while in IVT it has 3 years to expired. Some hospitals may ask your BLS if its expired or not so if you want to apply check your trainings first. I say it because it happened to me.[/quote']

I guess so. It already expired. Ill do training again. Any accredited bls institution will do right? Not just red cross.

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You're blessed ron27. It's as if you didn't choose nursing, instead it chose you. :p

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Hi there fellow nurses!

This post is very fitting to what nurses nowadays are experiencing. Personally, I graduated in 2010, passed the boards by july 2010 and almost 4 years after I'm still unemployed. Thankfully, I had practiced for a year as a volunteer nurse in 2 different military hospitals. I, too, have tried my luck at application for staff nurse vacancies all over the metro and yet to no avail (most of the time, they'd take you in consideration if you know anyone working in the insitution, you know what i mean ;) ) and to the point of losing hope in this industry.

As of the moment, I'm trying to make my way into Australia and Canada, unfortunately for nurses with less clinical experience, it will never be easy. In Australia, I still need to study for 2 year to get that license. In Canada, I have to have my credentials recognized and assessed first before they can give me a suggestion whether I can take the exam and just needs review or I have to good back and study nursing again. I also did consider to just scratch all my overseas plans and take post-grad training here, hopefully it's a start of a better career for me next year...

Goodluck Nurses!

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i just want to ask, does it matter if i worked in a bpo industry? i mean, if i will apply as a nurse to some hospitals, are they gonna use it against me? im afraid that they wont accept me bec it has been a year already since my last training (ivt and bls).

They won't take it against you as long as you can confidently and wittingly answer their questions. I remember being asked in my panel interview at PGH how my job in the call center relates to nursing and I adamantly answered them relating the nursing process to the call flow. They were so satisfied with my answer that they just asked me about some personal stuff for the rest of the interview. :D

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I guess so. It already expired. Ill do training again. Any accredited bls institution will do right? Not just red cross.

Although there are some hospitals that require a Red cross BLS training like NKTI, most hospitals accept training elsewhere.

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hi guys. good thing i found this thread. :)

i am new here and i think this thread was posted years ago. anyway, i graduated bsn last march 2012 and passed nle july 2012. i was happy and excited to be working as a nurse. i took ivt training and bls after that but i never thought that it would be really hard to look for a job. i got frustrated and applied as a call center Agent last feb2013. but as months gone by, im still frustrated bec i didnt really get to do what i really want wch is nsg. that's why i decided to resign and pursue nsg.last aus 2013, i passed my req and crededntialsin east ave. im still waiting for their call. im planning to take hemodialysis training for now. im still doing my research. thank you for all of your inspiring stories. these stories encouraged me to strive hard and not to give up. ;)

Take all the training you can get while you can and while you have the provisions. One tip I can share with you is to pass your application to numerous institutions. Don't focus on one hospital so you'll have many options. I graduated in 2008 and worked in a call center since then. I started submitting my application to different hospitals in 2010 and like you I ended up super frustrated just getting their usual "we'll call you when we have vacancies already" spiel not to mention the fact that I failed my qualifying exams in St. Luke's-Global City and V. Luna when I was just starting.

I even thought that nursing wasn't really for me until I passed my NPE at PGH in 2012. It felt like I was starting to stand up on my feet again. Although I knew initially that the application process for PGH will take years, it sparked a hope in me that at least, I did my very best and tried everything just to be a nurse again. I had my panel interview in October that same year and anticipated the long wait time for the final interview at PGH.

I was enjoying my self with the lucrative benefit I am getting in the call center while waiting for opportunities to work as a nurse when suddenly my school mate asked me to join her in submitting her application for RNHEALS at NCMH. That paved way for me practicing nursing almost 5 years after graduation and when I was getting prepared to go back working in call centers again since RNHEALS is ending in December, another opportunity came.

Ospital ng Makati invited me for an interview and to my surprise in a span of 2 weeks, I underwent the screening process which normally takes several months to a couple of years to complete and was told that I am hired as a staff nurse. I never expected that I would never finish my RNHEALS training since I have long forgotten that I also submitted my credentials to OsMak but here I am, reaping the fruit of the seeds I had sown a couple of years ago.

Keep praying for opportunities to unfold before us and perseverance to still continue hoping even at the most trying and frustrating time. I have been praying for this for 6 years now and now it's finally given to me so don't ever loose hope, keep the fire ardently burning and have faith because God is good all the time! :D

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These posts are inspiring! Hmm, maybe I'll give nursing another shot. LOL

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Take all the training you can get while you can and while you have the provisions. One tip I can share with you is to pass your application to numerous institutions. Don't focus on one hospital so you'll have many options. I graduated in 2008 and worked in a call center since then. I started submitting my application to different hospitals in 2010 and like you I ended up super frustrated just getting their usual "we'll call you when we have vacancies already" spiel not to mention the fact that I failed my qualifying exams in St. Luke's-Global City and V. Luna when I was just starting. I even thought that nursing wasn't really for me until I passed my NPE at PGH in 2012. It felt like I was starting to stand up on my feet again. Although I knew initially that the application process for PGH will take years it sparked a hope in me that at least, I did my very best and tried everything just to be a nurse again. I had my panel interview in October that same year and anticipated the long wait time for the final interview at PGH. I was enjoying my self with the lucrative benefit I am getting in the call center while waiting for opportunities to work as a nurse when suddenly my school mate asked me to join her in submitting her application for RNHEALS at NCMH. That paved way for me practicing nursing almost 5 years after graduation and when I was getting prepared to go back working in call centers again since RNHEALS is ending in December, another opportunity came. Ospital ng Makati invited me for an interview and to my surprise in a span of 2 weeks, I underwent the screening process which normally takes several months to a couple of years to complete and was told that I am hired as a staff nurse. I never expected that I would never finish my RNHEALS training since I have long forgotten that I also submitted my credentials to OsMak but here I am, reaping the fruit of the seeds I had sown a couple of years ago. Keep praying for opportunities to unfold before us and perseverance to still continue hoping even at the most trying and frustrating time. I have been praying for this for 6 years now and now it's finally given to me so don't ever loose hope, keep the fire ardently burning and have faith because God is good all the time! :D[/quote']

Thank you very much. I will start again and try the tips you've given me. Nursing path is really a long way to go huh. I will not give up. Ill start doing my research again. Hopefully, ill have good outcomes soon.

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They won't take it against you as long as you can confidently and wittingly answer their questions. I remember being asked in my panel interview at PGH how my job in the call center relates to nursing and I adamantly answered them relating the nursing process to the call flow. They were so satisfied with my answer that they just asked me about some personal stuff for the rest of the interview. :D

That's good. I just thought that they might take it against me. And from my previous company, i had a bad record there (awol) Good thing they wont dig onto that. :D i really dont want to go back to bpo industry coz it feels like im not going anywhere.

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Although there are some hospitals that require a Red cross BLS training like NKTI most hospitals accept training elsewhere.[/quote']

Okay. That's good. Planning to take training from red cross since it is the most preferred training. Im also planning to have dialysis training while waiting and plannibg to submit applicaion for rnheals. I dnt knw if dialysis training would be a benefit. It's too expensive

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Okay. That's good. Planning to take training from red cross since it is the most preferred training. Im also planning to have dialysis training while waiting and plannibg to submit applicaion for rnheals. I dnt knw if dialysis training would be a benefit. It's too expensive

That's right. It's too expensive (25-30,000). It would only benefit you if you would work as a dialysis nurse in private clinics right after you become a CRN or if the hospital you would work for in the future has a dialysis unit.

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