NLE
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The Before And After the NLE Experience
Bago at pagkatapos ng NLE: Panawagan din para kay PNoy. Yep. Mayroong iba na hanep. Disyembre pa lang ay naghahanda na para sa July NLE. Grabe naman ‘yun? Oo, kasi naman kumpleto ang simbang gabi sa buwan ng Disyembre. Handa nga! Suwerte kung maituturing kung magaling ka sa English. Oo ulit!! ‘Di tulad ng iba, [...]
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Board Exams, MISCELLANEOUS, Personal Stories, STORIES
“Langyang Board Exam Yan!”
Kaiba sa karaniwang paglabas ng resulta ng Nursing board exams, hapon inilabas ang resulta para sa kumuha ng December 2011, at yun nga ay nangyari ngayon, February 16, 2012. Madami ang natuwa dahil natupad ang hinihiling nila, pero mas madami ang di pinalad. Bilang isang instructor, nagiging mahirap din para sakin pag sumasapit ang ganitong [...]
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RN License……Now What?
Now what? That is the question that kept running in my mind after I passed the board exam. Now I’m a Registered Nurse…so what’s next? Work in a hospital?… nah.. Though I’ve spent 4 yrs in a course that I once thought I wanted but then… that’s what I thought. I’ve managed to make it [...]
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Who Is To Blame?
Nursing isn’t as “lucrative” as it used to nowadays, isn’t it? I’m a 2001 grad and back then, we had the choice of which hospital to apply to. Most hospitals had shortages. We worked double shifts. If you’re working in an M/S ward, most likely it will be 1:10 nurse:patient ratio. If you’re really determined [...]
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Career Insights, COMMENTARIES, EMPLOYMENT, General, NEWS, Working Conditions
CHED’s Call to Phase Out Nursing Schools: A Little Too Late
We can’t blame Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for tagging Nursing as one of the “oversubscribed courses” if we have to believe its recent report about the number of registered nurses in the Philippines already reaching a whopping 400,000 this year. And while the rate of nursing enrollment is slowly plummeting the past few years, [...]
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A Day in the Life of a Nurse, MISCELLANEOUS, STORIES
A Typical Nursing Journey
Being a Nurse was really out of my league. When I graduated from High School, my top 3 courses for college are Chemical Engineering, Education and Mass Communication. See?! Nursing was not on my list but because of the”great demand” for nurses during those times, I was convinced by my parents as well as my [...]
