filipino
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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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Nurses’ Shoe
Politics and Freedom of Speech has always been a part of the Filipino culture, it rouses at the same time when our ancestors have learned to wipe their own asses for sanitation. Though all of the mentioned are well exercised by the people (privileged or not), they are not practiced with full diligence and perpetual [...]
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COMMENTARIES, Personal Stories, STORIES
Why Do I Blog?
When I first thought about blogging, I wondered about what I wanted to blog about. I knew I had something to say, but how do I get my message across? So many topics came to mind yet, it always drew me back to two areas – my nursing profession here in America and my Filipino [...]
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A Day in the Life of a Nurse, Nurse-Patient Relationships, Personal Stories, STORIES
Nursing And Parenting
Nursing is an emotionally charged profession. It requires a great deal of self discipline and self control to remain focused to the tasks and challenges that waits. With this in mind, values and beliefs are always at stake especially when emotions are at a high. This can drain and exhaust anyone and adaptation is a [...]
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Community, FEATURED, General, NEWS
ANG NARS: The Voice and Strength of Filipino Nurses
With the recent news articles and television airtime featuring ANG NARS Inc., the approved party-list group for nurses by the COMELEC for the 2013 national elections, thousands of nurses became awakened and inspired, and more determined than ever. Read below to see why you should support ANG NARS, and its battle as advocates of Filipino [...]
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COMMENTARIES, Personal Stories, STORIES
The Value of Filipino Nurses
I was already part of the wide audience of Philippine media when they frequently reported the high demand of nurses abroad, especially in the United States. Way back high school, I witnessed how the trend shifted from high demand to low demand. Eventually, it ended up to an abundant supply of nurses as I reached [...]
