A Day in the Life of a Nurse
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A Day in the Life of a Nurse, Cancer, Personal Stories
A Call for the Cancer Kids
I spent exactly three years of my nursing career at the Hematology and Oncology Center of PCMC. I never figured out that this fate was drawn on my palms and soles. Nevertheless, it happened, it occurred, it was meant to be. I am a Hema-Onco nurse. I am a cancer kids’ advocate. After spending a [...]
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A Day in the Life of a Nurse, MISCELLANEOUS
This is a Happily Sad Goodbye From Ate Renah
The sound of my vibrating mobile phone woke me up this morning. A sad text message from my colleague brought me to tears. “Rena, expired na si Charles,” and that was it. I felt a strong sense of guilt and shame to my little stupid self. Remembering him yesterday, a day before and the six [...]
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A Day in the Life of a Nurse, Communication, Health, Nursing in a Different Land, STORIES
Letting Go
Nursing is a 24-hour care job. Yet, we nurses forget that our 1- hour shift ends when we clock out. We tend to review the past 12 hours over and over again. We do this while driving home, while in the shower, while eating dinner, etc. We cannot seem to let go, especially when we’ve [...]
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A Day in the Life of a Nurse, Canada, EMPLOYMENT, IMMIGRATION, Jobs Market, STORIES, Working Conditions
Success story of Canadian-Filipino Nurse: Part II
I hope you all had a chance to check out our last article which was part I of our interview with Canadian-Filipino Nurse Mark Estoesta. If you haven’t you can find it here: http://filipinonurses.org/index.php/2013/01/success-story-of-canadian-filipino-nurse/ I’m sure you are all wondering how was the nurse certification process? Was it difficult? “It varies from one province to another. [...]
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A Day in the Life of a Nurse, STORIES
Baby’s Coming Out
The early morning sun permeated throughout the cabin of the flight to San Francisco, draping the windows like warm yellow-orange curtains. I lay reclined on my luxuriously soft leather seat, admiring the magnificent view of the crystal clear, azure sky and cirrus clouds. My brother laid next to me in his seat, legs outstretched with his [...]
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A Day in the Life of a Nurse, Career Insights, Medical Techniques & Procedures, Nursing in a Different Land
Nurse of the Future, 2025
September 2025-
It’s time to say goodbye to her ‘virtual’ nursing cap. Dr. Jade Marciano is ready to hang up her stethoscope, finally. After all, she had been working as a nurse for 42 years now.Dr. Jade chuckled at the thought of one clueless senatorial candidate who had tried to belittle the nurses in her native country by implying that the student nurses could get by with limited education. Her concept of “room nurses” had angered the Filipino nurses, and she eventually lost the election in 2013. Now, in 2025, the transformed nursing workforce had fulfilled its promise to take a much-deserved equal acknowledgement from the public. Somehow, the world had embraced the new and expanded roles of the nurse. An empowered nurse.
