PNA vs institutionalizing practical nursing program
By Katherine Evangelista
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 20:14:00 06/18/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- The Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) on Wednesday declared its opposition to the proposal of the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) to "ladderize" the nursing curriculum to institutionalize the practical nursing course Wednesday.
At the same time, the PNA called on schools offering practical nursing to be "honest" and not "mislead" prospective students into believing there is a high demand for practical nurses abroad when there is none.
I realized that there is a problem with the Commission on Higher Education (ChEd). First, they cannot close down low performing nursing schools and now they plan to ladderize the LPN program. Are they stupid? The LPN program should be abolish. They are misleading LPNs in their career.
Those schools are so deceiving... they like to put in their advertisements for these LPN/caregiver programs a plane/statue of liberty/the american flag plus a bunch of smiling people. I don't know if anybody is going to be smiling once they find out that these schools are just preying on the dreams, hopes and pockets of people who just want a better life.
And I wish that some of you would have the newspapers there do articles on what is happening with these programs that are good for taking money only from unsuspecting students and then promising them the world and they cannot deliver on any of it.
If your government thought that these programs were so wonderful, they would have been granting licenses to the LPN, but they do not even recognize them.
Perhaps if the word gets out more, then there will be a stop to these slimey programs and their owners will be out of business.
Yes it is exactly that, they decieve poor suckers who doesn't even know the difference. Sad to say even in our province here in the Philippines they have that so called LPN ladderized program and have enticing ads that says "be a US practical nurse in 2years and earn dollars" Is it not just pure gimmickry? I feel sorry for those who enrolled that doesn't have a US visa. It is certainly hard for BSN RN to migrate to US because of the retrogression. At least we can work here in our country, I am not sure if they can practice being an LPN here. or maybe they can be nursing aids...Kudos to PNA!
The Philippine government does not offer a license for the LPN, so there is no way for them to work there.
And if a government offers the training but does not recognize it for licensure, that says much to me about the program. Why in the world do they think that other countries need to accept them?
Just to add that I'm glad this is finally being reported by the newspapers and t.v stations. Here's a report about the practical nursing courses. The report is in english but some of those interviewed spoke in tagalog, so I translated it. I hope its all right :)
The sad thing is that the ones that are taking this program have no idea that they will never be able to work with that training in any country, it is not accepted anywhere in the world for immigration purposes. Passing a licensing exam does not give the person permission to work, and this is what is not explained to them when they sign up.
I would love to see booths set up in front of these schools passing out the correct and true information, not the garbage that the owners want them to believe.
The sad thing is that the ones that are taking this program have no idea that they will never be able to work with that training in any country, it is not accepted anywhere in the world for immigration purposes. Passing a licensing exam does not give the person permission to work, and this is what is not explained to them when they sign up.
I would love to see booths set up in front of these schools passing out the correct and true information, not the garbage that the owners want them to believe.
just found this suzanne4 look at this website http://www.pptsedu.com another money making huh...
The only way I see that I can help in the my own little way is spread the word to anyone who wants to listen..hopefully it will spread awareness to people...I sense the awareness is escalating since this was tackled by PNA and there were documentaries done on TV also...
It doesn't matter if you post the LPN schools here or not. The schools will just pop up somewhere else with a different name. We have to educate the nurses about the realities of things and hope that the companies collapse from lack of financial support.
That is one of the problems here in the Philippines, these illigitimate businesses pop up like mushrooms and there is not a strong police presence to enforce the laws like in the USA so they get away with taking advantage of people for a while before someone in the government decides to pay attention and shut them down with force.
We are talking about a place where Passport fixers are able to operate right in front of the Bureau of Immigration.
No, we just have to educate the population and hope that our words spread faster than the ones who want to take advantage of others.
Oversupply or shortage of nurses? DOLE wants to know
Margaux Ortiz
She (University of the Philippines College of Nursing Dean Dr. Josefina Tuazon ) pointed out that the high number of graduates of Practical Nursing, a two-year course that focuses on the basics of nursing, aggravated the unemployment problem.
In a statement to the media, Paquiz said: "There is no local demand or positions for practical nurses within the Philippine Health Care Delivery system particularly in the light of the oversupply of nurses and subsequent unemployment of fresh nursing graduates."
rainstar
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Those schools are so deceiving... they like to put in their advertisements for these LPN/caregiver programs a plane/statue of liberty/the american flag plus a bunch of smiling people. I don't know if anybody is going to be smiling once they find out that these schools are just preying on the dreams, hopes and pockets of people who just want a better life.