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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

Specializes in Acute Care, Trauma, Critical Care, Psych.
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.

Haha. I went AWOL too for my RNHEALS training, although I took care of my immediate resignation a couple of weeks after I joined RNHEALS, I never got the chance to finish the clearance process. :D I never indicated that company in my resume to avoid trouble when applying for work elsewhere since then.

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Haha. I went AWOL too for my RNHEALS training although I took care of my immediate resignation a couple of weeks after I joined RNHEALS, I never got the chance to finish the clearance process. :D I never indicated that company in my resume to avoid trouble when applying for work elsewhere since then.[/quote']

Haha. True! Im too lazy to process my clearance. Are you still planning to go back to bpo industry? Why not go abroad? I think you have enough experience already.

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Hi nurses!

Just to share.

Im currently working at EAMC as a RNheals batch 4 Nurse. This is quite interesting that before I reach being a real nurse I also struggle on the career that I have right now. Graduated and passed the local board way back 2009. As I got my PRC license I already applied for several hospital in the metro but unfortunately Im lacking the basic nurse training like ivt, bls, redcross, acls etc and some just offer volunteerism only. I decided to work to other company so i can care of the expenses on the trainings needed. But as I work on other field, i enjoy the life of earning. I been in different jobs and companies (bpo, hmo, sales, brand promotion, medrep, pdn and some part-time jobs). I never been in a company for a year because i easily got bored and I always say that this is not the job that I'm into. I always looking forward to be a nurse. 2011 i got the chance to be part of pahinungod of UP-PGH ER Department as volunteer, i just lasted for 2 weeks because i can't afford it anymore going to duty with your own expences and that time i got a job at HMO. Then last yr 2012 after i resigned at my job as sales associate and save money for my training I enrolled myself to various trainings. IVT, BLS hospital and redcross, ACLS, training from PNA and other paid training/seminars. I also participate in medical mission so that my resume will be up to date and full of trainings. Then October 2012 when i already have my basic trainings, I applied to various hospital in metro manila. I do the hospital hopping from North to South. Also I started participating to this blog which also help me determined hospital who's on hiring. Every thing paid off, i was contacted by 5 hospital. 2 for Rnheals, 3 for volunteers/training nurses at private hospital.I chose EAMC because it is a 600 bed capacity hospital and training will start as soon after new year.

Tho, the salary is 8k i had my second thought wether i will pursue it or not due to that time i was contacted as medrep for unilab. It dwells me because 8k is beyond minimum salary for us living in the metro it will be costly and not enought to survived. My decision was made after I attend the orientation, I was thrilled how many new nurses will be part of RNheals 4, we are 400 that time. I made my realization that its not easy to apply on a hospital and God gave me the chance so I think i am for it. I also struggled when I'm applying to other hospital like i need to apply in 3 hospital in a day and also travelling from north to south just to send my application. And I really hate the "backer system" in public or private institution it really dismay me.

As I started my work as nurse, i've learned that my knowledge is not enought. Everyday is a challenge as a nurse. So everyday is a new learning for me.

Right now Im still struggling to my job because i dont know if I will be part of the hospital next year or not because i dont have a "backer". But that will not make me stop in pursuing my career as a nurse. As you enter the challenging work as a nurse, you will realise that working to care for patient is worth the work for. Also im planning to go Abroad, i need more years of experience before i commit myself working in other country.

In God's perfect time, you will gonna be hired as a nurse. If today your not yet in there, work your ass out and do efforts. It,s not easy to be a nurse in this country. So work for it and surely everything will paid off.

Godbless nurses.

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Hi sir! I just want to ask the detail on how you apply on OsMak? Can you share it here. Thanks sir :)

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Specializes in Acute Care, Trauma, Critical Care, Psych.

sure random1025. I submitted my requirements like xerox copies of Certificate of Good Moral Character, TOR, Diploma, Board Rating w/ Breakdown, Board Certificate, PRC License, Birth Certificate, Barangay Certificate, Resume and Application Letter addressed to Dr. Perry Ishmael Peralta- Medical Director to the HR Department at Makati City hall. I was told to wait for their call and so I did, it took some time but I'm glad I'm finally hired.

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Sir may I ask do peeps outside Makati can apply at Osmak? Thank you sir.

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Specializes in Acute Care, Trauma, Critical Care, Psych.

Hi Random, you may pass your requirements but you ought to know someone from Makati City like a City Government Official or City Government employee to increase your papers' chance of getting picked.

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Specializes in Nephro-Dialysis / Intervention Radio.

I graduated in 2006, but while waiting for the NLE results, I already started working with a large international bank handling offshore wealth management accounts. 2 months into the job the exam results came out and I passed, so even if I was already an RN, I still worked in the financial industry for 2 years.

2008, I eventually found myself lining up and brushing elbows with fellow neophyte RN's fighting for slots for training programs from various hospitals. I was blessed to be part of a "Skills Enhancement Training Program" in a large tertiary government hospital in the province. It ran for 6 months, half the time I was at the Orthopedic Ward, the next half I was assigned at the OR. I didn't had a white horse, so after the end of the program I wasn't on the short list (10 out of 100) of those considered to be hired.

However, I got to chance to go abroad just 2 months after the training ended. Unfortunately, the global economic recession in 2009 forced a lot of ward closures in the hospital I worked at overseas. After 1 year they didnt renew my contract and I was back in the Philippines.

A month after I returned, I found myself being interviewed for a training program in renal nursing at an outpatient dialysis clinic. I was hesitant at first to pursue it since I wanted to work at a hospital. But I was accepted and went with the flow. Heck, it was better than having nothing to do. My dialysis nursing training lasted 6 months, but they hired me as a contractual employee afterwards. I eventually passed the RENAP exam during that time. When the dialysis clinic opened a new branch, I was one of the staff nurses that set up and started the new branch. I was with them from 2009-2011.

In 2011 I got the chance to go abroad again, but this time as a specialized and certified dialysis RN, a nurse with a rare specialization as far as South and Central America are concerned. I worked for 1.5 years in South America before transferring to the Caribbean where I am presently working.

Working in the Caribbean presented an opportunity for me to have another specialization, Intervention Radiology. Because of my OR and dialysis experience, I was requested by the Dialysis Department Head Nurse to assist in angioplasty and stenting procedures for dialysis patients with stenosed fistulae and grafts. From then on, the radiologist would always ask for me to scrub in whenever we have those procedures. Eventually I was trained for free in intervention radiology and now I work in 3 areas within the hospital, Dialysis (full time), and Radiology and Cath Lab (part time and on call).

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

we have such inspiring stories here and I hope mine will inspire others, too. some of you might probably know my nursing stories if you happen to read the international forum.

I finished my BSN in April 2008, took the IELTS Exam June 2008, and the NCLEX-RN exam December 2008. Yes, I did not take the local board exam since I have been preparing myself for work abroad since I was in 2nd year nursing. But back then, I wanted to work abroad because I like the lifestyle, especially in the western countries. I was gonna use nursing as my stepping stone and planned on doing something else later on. I really wanted to become a doctor but I had to consider our family's financial capacity.

During the peak of the US economic crisis and uncertain immigration future (2008-2009), I managed to land a nursing job in the US through an H1B sponsorship. I started working in a long term care facility (nursing home, aged care). After a year, I got transferred to the Emergency Dept. and Acute Care Ward and worked there for almost 2 years. I knew back then that the H1B (temporary work) visa is not a long term visa and I prepared myself. Before it expired, I applied to Canada but with little luck.

June 2011, I took the IELTS again. This time for Australian nursing registration. I got the desired score and went on to apply for registration. It got approved February 2012. One month before my US contract expired, I got a job here in Australia through the 457 (temporary work) visa. I am on the same job ever since, working in Aged Care. I got my permanent residency last August 2013 and applied for part-time and casual jobs.

Now, along with my full-time work in Aged Care, I am also working part-time/casual in a Psychiatric hospital and in an Acute Care public hospital. I will soon commence a postgraduate degree in clinical nursing and hopefully continue on to be a nurse practitioner (a master-level RN with an authority to prescribe treatment, short of being a doctor).

God bless guys.

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Specializes in Acute Care, Trauma, Critical Care, Psych.

Up! Up! Up!

How are you fellow Nurses?

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NZRN here. I came to NZ through student visa. I worked as a caregiver while I processed my nursing registration in the Nursing council. It took me about 2 years before I got my registration. Currently, I work in an aged care facility and I'm loving it, old people are just lovely. I obtained my residency last year and my husband and my 2 sisters followed me here. My journey in NZ is not easy, I had been to rough times. I was even a victim of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake but these trials strengthen me. I came to NZ with only $190 pocket money as I spent all my savings paying the course fees for my student visa. Luckily, I met few kindhearted Filipinos who helped me in my accommodation and daily expenses. After a month, I managed to find a job and changed my visa to work visa. Philippines is home and NZ too. I think if you are just hardworking, it is so easy to fulfill your dreams here as they are lots of support from the government.

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Sir may I ask do peeps outside Makati can apply at Osmak? Thank you sir.

hi random! how are you? have you been working in any hospital already?

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