What do Filipinos think of its nurses?

Our nurses are probably the most caring and hardworking nurses in the whole wide world but what's this? Some of our nurses instead of taking care of their own fellow citizens and showing how they truly love our country they just go abroad and forget what they have pledged when they took their oath. I guess it's the "MONEY" that drives them to go out of the country and somehow settle there for good. On the contrary, nurses who choose to work locally are heroic I should say because we already know how hard their work is. Imagine taking care of hundreds of patients, running errands here and there for 10-12 hours? WOW! They should be given special incentives for that kind of effort!

Well, there are some pros and cons of working abroad like earning as much as ten times compared here but leaving their families behind and so on. I think if they really have a love for our country, wouldn't it be so nice if healthworkers abroad give a helping hand to local healthworkers in giving humanitarian aid for those people who are desperate and poor? Great idea do you think? But mind you I have nothing against healthworkers whether they work locally or internationally because I, myself, have been hospitalized for 3 times already and all I can say is they served me well.

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To ren:

You're just playing rude and it doesn't seem to look good on you! Why wouldn't you consider our healthworkers as heroes? If all of them leave the country what do you think will happen to healthcare industry? Yes many of them are underpaid and yet they're still here. It's not because for the love of money but they love their work and they choose not to leave their families behind in exchange for the higher salary that rich countries may offer. In fact I salute them because I personally experienced how well they do their jobs. I have this doctor who specializes in cancer treatment and she's not only an ordinary doctor but she's the one who willingfully continues to help other cancer patients especially kids until they're fully restored. She even has this small classroom in the hospital that she attends to regularly giving hope and laughter to every child that has cancer! How about that!

filipinos don't think too highly of it's nurses and other medical health worker.

if they did...they would be better compensated and treated better. so they will not leave this country....

patriotism can not and will never feed the mouths of your family!!! if thinking that by staying and working in the philippines is heroic while your family is hungry and can not go to school.... that is not heroism...that is stupidity!!

most patients in the hospitals feel it is their God-given right to abuse the nurses...

hello!! if you only knew the reasoning behind that you are paying for their services is so wrong since on average a nurse only earns about 5000 maximum in a month in private hospitals and around 8000 maximum in public hospitals where they take care of around 50 critically ill, bad-tempered patients!!

doctors in this country is actually underpaid also...cause most patients would make 'tawad' or bargain like they're in the market or something!! but they don't make 'tawad' or bargain when buying the latest bag from designers!

it is so damn twisted!!

i mean filipinos don't really know the value of healthcare...if they bargain for healthcare services and pay the healthcare worker less than the tip they give their manicuristas and pay for their cellphones!

that is what you call...overworked and underpaid.

"that they as medical doctors might desire to have the means to tell a nurse the thank you to do interior the 1st place?" -hello, in case you have ever worked in a scientific institution placing, you will understand that there are dissimilar issues that nurses gain this lots extra useful than medical doctors. the days whilst nurses regarded as much as medical doctors as gods are sooo over (properly, through fact the 80s it is been like this). We do our interest, they do theirs. turn off that ER episode, that crapp is misinforming. So why do medical doctors interior the philippines go decrease back to the bookshelves to alter into nurses? through actuality that Filipino medical doctors (properly, maximum of them) are no compensated sufficient for his or her artwork. They not at all starve or something, it is in simple terms that the status of being a doctor interior the Philippines is long previous. Now, Philippine knowledgeable nurses on the different hand have extra useful possibilities of attending to holiday to the west and earn as much as 4-6 circumstances what a doctor in Manila could make. interior the tip, it is all relating to the Benjamins. i understand a Filipino scientific expert who has been working in direction of for 2 a protracted time (he's in simple terms approximately 50 now) in a significant scientific institution in Las Pinas. He too hit the books and studied to alter right into a nurse... unthinkable interior america isn't it?

I'm a nurse and i find it hard to have a job nowadays especially if you're looking for a staff nurse position ( for newly grads). There are lots of nursing grads (and lots more to come) but the availability of job is less. I mean, demand < supply. Most of the availabe jobs are those that is indirectly related to nursing (customer care rep for health insurance cards, medical transcriptionists etc). As for the nurses per se, I believe we have the most competent around. I have heard lots of good news about Phil nurses in another countries. As for educational system here in the Philippines, the nursing curriculum here in the Philippines is improving but the problem is the volume of students that the school accepts. Some nursing schools accepts too much volume of students (eventhough it might be detrimental to the quality of education given) because these are still incomes. I think it boils down to quantity vs. quality. As for the healthcare system, hmm, i really would like to say a lot but i think i'm in no position to tell that. All i can say is there are improvements but there are more improvements to be done. It's vague really but i'd like to see other answerer's answer about that. ;-)