Us Resident Planning to Study LPN in the Philippines

rn4ever? · Jul 9, 2008

These schools have not been endorsed by the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) and they do not encourage students to enroll in this program. Interestingly, today, I was watching a Filipino TV show that featured this topic and the PNA President already made a stand on this. If you want to become an RN and you really want to pursue it in the Philippines, just enroll in a duly recognized Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program. Enrolling in LPN/LVN Programs that are not legitimate and duly recognized will just waste your money and time.

Anyone Please Help,
I'm a U.S. resident currently living now in the Philippines. I'm planning to take a 1yr course of LPN here. The schools that I'm looking at is eAcademy, Kennedy and PPTS. They are only Technical Schools not Universities. I actually wanted to go to a University but couldn't because they require at least 2 yrs of pre-requisites that I don't have.
Has anyone had any personal experience with these type of schools here in the Philippines? How am I suppose to know which is good and bad? All of them claim they are accredited by TESDA but I'm still not completely convinced.
I need to hear from someone that has actually gone through the same process that I'm gonna take. So please if your an LPN that has finished the course here in the Philippines, please help me with some guidance.
P.S.
I actually want to be an RN eventually. I'm taking an LPN because I just wanna test out the system here in PI. When I finish LPN in 1 year and got a job in the U.S. then it will be easy for me to come back to PI to continue to take courses to be an RN.

Daly City RN · Jul 9, 2008

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Don't waste your time, money and effort studying a useless course. If you do some reading in this forum you may find my posts and other people's posts regarding this topic.

Here in the San Francisco Bay Area where I live and work many of the major acute care hospitals have been eliminating the LVN (LPN in other U.S. states) positions. Those hospitals that still employ LVN's have stopped hiring new LVN's altogether.

Additionally, RN's remain in demand here in the U.S.A. while LPN's are not. When the American press reports about the 'nursing shortage' they actually mean the shortage of registered nurses and not of LVN's..

The scope of practice is also different, RN's are professionals while the LVN's are not. And the pay gap can be huge. In our hospital LVN's earn around $60,000 per year while RN's earn around $100,000 per year and many senior RN's earn as much as $120,000 or more per year. A Philippine based nurse may think that $60,000 per year may be enough, but one must consider the high cost of living in large U.S. cities such as the S.F. Bay Area.

For those who still consider enrolling in the Philippine LPN programs I hope that my message will penetrate their thick skulls, please do not waste your time!!! LPN's are not in demand here in the U.S.A. nor in any other country even in the Philippines!!!

If one hundred thousand or so unemployed Philippine-based registered nurses can't find jobs, then what are your chances of finding one if you are only an LPN?

Don't be boneheads you guys and gals.

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suzanne4, RN · Jul 10, 2008

The training is not even accepted by the Philippine government for licensure, so why in the world does anyone else need to accept it?

There are already several threads about this including the sticky at the top of this forum on the LPN programs that are there. Please have a good read there.

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