80,000 to 100,000 to take June 08 NLE

lenjoy03, RN · Jan 27, 2008

I think some of our government officials needs counseling. They're starting to get a delusion of grandeur!

June 2007 passers are about 31,000 plus... Now let's ask if these nurses have jobs or can find a job!

Yesterday I had a talked with my patient who encouraged her daughter to take up nursing. I told her the reality that there's retrogression and there are high percentage of umemployed nurses! All she could say after our talk is, "I didn't know the situation of nurses in our country."

From my very own point of view, parents are being carried away with all the advertisement about nurses who can go there and there and there... Now its time the government or the Media and our fellow nurses will voice out what's really happening to our nursing profession. I love this profession and its hurts me to see what's happening to us....

Rep · Jan 27, 2008

PRC has announced that 80,000 to 100,000 graduates will take the June 08 NLE. All are dreaming of going to the USA, to join the hundreds of thousands already stuck in the retrogression pipeline. No way all of those who want to go to the US will get there. The nursing demand may be ending already, and RP will have a glut of jobless nurses.

Wow, back in 1991 we were only 20,000+. And some of us got stucked because the US has stopped hiring nurses.

borik1234 · Jan 27, 2008

oh my god,,,100,000 who gonna take the exam,,where is the quality of nursing?

Hoss · Jan 28, 2008

What you are witnessing is the mass destruction of one of the most respected institutions the Philippines were famous for..."Quality Nursing Education"

It is neither "quality" OR "education"...it is a huge scam to suck the money out of students on false promises of future jobs that DO NOT EXIST!!

The current state of Nursing Education is appalling and devastating!! There are now 450 colleges of nursing churning out medically illiterate and INCOMPETENT graduates who cannot pass the NLE after 4 years of study.

A recent audit of the CHED has found that 19 schools operating for the past decade have failed to have ONE student pass the NLE!! Yet those schools are still operating!!

source:http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=107090

Until the Philippine Nursing Association and the Government stop the Diploma Mills and SHUT THESE SCHOOLS DOWN, you will see the end of Nursing in the Philippines within a few years!! What in God's Good Name is this country doing with 600,000 Nursing Students and NO JOBS for Nurses in the Philippines??

It is all about the money these students are forking out from the advertising by agencies and the government itself promoting a false path of employment in order to make the owners of these schools RICH!!

The fleecing of the Filipino nursing student is a national shame and will end up with disasterous consequences for the ENTIRE PHILIPPINE NURSING PROFESSION.

Where are the nurses who belong to the PNA?? Why is there NO action on your part to demand the salvation of your hard earned reputation? Why are nurses allowing themselves to be destroyed as a profession without so much as a wimper of protest??

If you think its bad now, dear nurses, JUST WAIT ...

Hoss

g_l · Jan 28, 2008

i may get flamed or banned cuz of this, but i gotta say my mind...

question time:

how many filipinos are here in country? more than 6 million(afaik)

what is the most revenue increasing sector of the workforce? OFWs

now for my harsh words:

it seems like our country is in the business of exporting one of its most common commodities: able bodies.

what are we, goods for export?

it seems like our profession is being used for covering up the rot inside our country. tell me, would you leave if your life here is good? no.

what is government and leadership for? to lead the group to the right path for attaining a goal. and what is our goal? peace, prosperity and progress.

"ramdam ko ang asenso!" (i feel the progress) is a big crock of BS to me.

sun tzu: leave escape paths for the enemy, so that they will not fight with the desperation of doomed men. so that is why one should not press the enemy too hard.

these men and women are very clever. as long as there's hope the masses will clutch the straw. problem is that it is a false hope, a false light. afterwards when the hard hand of reality slaps our faces we will cry out for justice. but by that time those men and women have accumulated enough power to escape punishment. please don't have any illusions that the power of justice always prevails. it is power vs power.

and what does that leave us nurses? a hard time. most of the 500,000+ nurses will pack up and leave the country or the profession. and in the end, philippine nursing is the one that suffers.

rkm · Jan 28, 2008

You're all correct. This craze has really gotten out of hand. It is now a virtual rolling snowball, gathering momentum as parents with only the best interest for their children in mind push them into the nearest available nursing school. They don't know the true situation, and even if they did, they would still take the chance just to try to leave the country. This is the norm for us as a people: if a business is hot, everyone will imitate it, until profits diminish due to unbearable competition. Just look at the barbecue stands or the sari-sari stores in your neighborhood, that's just the way it is.

:bugeyes:

mark_ricafrente · Jan 28, 2008

im soooo sad, i am very very sad, while im reading this thread... :icon_sad::icon_sad:

Lorodz · Jan 29, 2008

80,000 to 100,000 wow! super wow! what will happen to those students who fail to pass the exams? OMG! something must be done.

share1507 · Jan 29, 2008

that's too much...... what will happen to the quality of nursing education? Come to think of it, there are many taking up the course, and many of them passed the NLE, but how come that the hospitals nowadays are in amidst of closing due to shortage of healthworkers. :crying2:

pisceanbabe74, LPN, LVN · Jan 29, 2008

that's too much...... what will happen to the quality of nursing education? Come to think of it, there are many taking up the course, and many of them passed the NLE, but how come that the hospitals nowadays are in amidst of closing due to shortage of healthworkers.

>>>>>>sigh! soooo many nurses nowadays. If only I could turn back time & have money. I would want to study different kind of langguages and wave my hand on camera on Ms. Universe Beauty Pageant and smile but not as a contestant but as an interpreter and would speak like this "Moshi Moshi!, Como Estas Usted? Ni Hao Ma? Kefalhal?" hahaha:thankya:

lenjoy03, RN · Jan 29, 2008

Share1507, the answer there is budget, in short... money! There's a shortage of nurses in the hospital especially the province because they can't afford to hire them. The government alots 1% of the total budget to healthcare. Since there's a shortage of nurses, no one will take care of the patient and if there's no patient, no money. If there's no money, no healthcare worker.... It's a cycle my dear...