Nursing
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Canada, IMMIGRATION, NEWS, Nursing in a Different Land
What You Need To Know About Canada’s New Immigration Regulations
With so much buzz about Canadian Immigration in the news lately I wanted to give the Filipino Nurse community a personal update about the new Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) regulations. Nurses are not on the new eligible occupations list. So if you are a nurse and you were waiting to apply under the new FSW [...]
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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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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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Not Just a “Room Nurse”
It is not just a case of ignorance; it is a prime example of how clueless some people are about the work of nurses. It is also a blatant disregard of how the Filipino nurses had helped save a nation, and gained the respect of other nations with their compassion, intelligence, and competence.
We are much more than a “room nurse”, Mrs. Villar. We make a difference in other peoples’ lives. -
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 [...]
