Filipino Nurses - EYES HERE!

Hi I'm a student nurse at the present and hopefully and dreaming of having my license next year. Yes it's true Filipino nurses working in our country are not well compensated, but I may asked, "what job in our country are paid enough in terms of the workload they're having?", well except for those executives sitting in their office in an air conditioned room, that is. Truth is if you're not self employed like those businessmen and professionals like doctors and lawyers, situation will always be break even. The salaries you received for a month-long hard work will only be put into your daily expenses, thus saving a little less or nothing at all. Honestly, I took nursing in order to work overseas, I don't see myself working in a district hospital applying all those learning's and skills for a small salary, cause my aim at the present is to help my father finance our family. I think I'm not alone in this kind of endeavor. Most of my classmates likewise took the course because of the chance they're after in the place where they see a more greener pastures, ours are barren and dried up already, especially because of what the former administration did to our country and to us its people. However, since the country already elected its new Head of the State, I'm hoping this barren and dried up land of ours would once again turn into a vast fields of opportunities and our economy will soon stand and soar into a place where it belong, at the top (having an optimistic mind). For the new government, if they could only focus more on the health of the Filipino people then change in our health care system will follow. They must focus not only on the physical aspect of the health care system but most especially give importance to the manpower behind the system itself and we Filipino nurses are one of them. If the manpower are fully (well-enough) compensated, it will drive the force to do better in their job, and this in return would be beneficial to the patients we are catering. Benefits to the patients would mean healthy (Filipino) people and healthy people means a healthy nation. So the case would be a win-win situation. Someday, if I'm able to work abroad and save enough for my family, I will surely go back here in my homeland and render my service to the most unfortunate brothers and sisters of ours. We need to give back something in return, for the country I loved dearly. I pray that all Filipinos would be able to give something back or at least contribute a little for the good of everyone and be able to set aside conflicts and greedy personalities. For the Philippines. :)

..Hi.. At this moment, I think the government cannot really provide a solution for that considering that our country has a very high percentage of nurses and we don't have enough hospital where they can work.. what I know now is, nursing is no longer in demand here in the Philippines.. they are in demand abroad.. even if the government will put up more hospital, it won't still employ the vast number of registered nurses.. also, we knew the financial status of our country that it cannot just increase the salaries of nurses even other courses also because I do believe that nursing is not the only course that is expensive.. that's why other registered nurses that I knew enrolled in other courses like caregiver to qualify themselves land on a job.. it's really hard but this is the reality.. our problem in the Philippines can't be solve overnight.. we just hope that the new president will try to find solutions to lessen our problems..

The problem is not the system. It's the overwhelming workforce that's affecting the salaries. And nurses aren't really in-demand here in the Philippines that's why they have a low appraisal. My mom is a registered nurse, but she didn't practice her profession because of the very low pay back then. I think nurses should have readied themselves with the reality that they would have a hard time looking for jobs here in the Philippines to gain experience from, or if they find jobs, they wouldn't be happy about the salary.