Hey it is me, Shaz. This will be my first official article that I will publish here on read.cash. This will be somehow base on my own experiences and how I perceived the situation right now of the said noble profession as a registered nurse working in the Philippines.
What can you say about nurses? Most especially nurses that came from Philippines? Are they that hardworking, has empathy and passionate to their profession that other countries loves them the most? But how about their own country? Are they being treated right by their own nation? Do they get their benefits and salary right? What is their real situation here?
Basically, I am just a novice nurse started her career as a Register Nurese (RN) a year ago. To tell you frankly, it is hard to get hired to a hospital knowing that you just passed a licensure exam with no trainings attended yet.
It is hard to find a job suitable for you because First: Getting hired to a public hospital needs so much experiences and somewhat a BACKER. You need someone you personally know from a high position for that person get you the job. Second: It is also hard to get hired to a private hospital because you should have this several trainings attended first before you can be qualified for the position. Well, it also depends on the hospital's policy. The competency is something we cannot get off because there are only few vacancy and there are many of you who are applying to it.
When you are hired there are private hospitals that you will put you on probationary level first, this is when you are being supervised by higher position and they are been grading you based on you performances, usually this will took you for three (3) months, if you passed then good for you but if not then you should go and find another hospital. In this phase, your salary usually depends on the hospital policy. It may be below minimum or average wage.
Then you passed the probationary level, you are already regularize. In this position is what you call that your are already a staff nurse. You should be benefited well. But as what I said this per hospital policy. There are private hospital that does not really take good care of their staffs. I am actually grateful that I got hired by a good private hospital.
So let us go to where you will be meeting a lot and different kinds of patients, watchers, doctors and same as you nurses.
Meeting a lot of people and dealing with different attitudes and personalities has been a big challenge in being a nurse. I know we have a much workload since we have just small amount of staff but dealing with these personalities is just I cannot handle much.
There are patients who are unreasonable at times, watchers that are too demanding. We have endure all these kind of people for us to have a work. Thankfully most of us are able to handle them and the workload well.
There are significant others of patients that are so ungrateful. I know that this our work but they cannot even just be thankful that are still health workers left here in our country even we have just a little salary doing our work in our very best way.
That is why most of our nurses here in the Philippines and our healthcare workers opted to work overseas. It is because they are fully compensated and well recognized being hardworking in our profession.
I really hope that the people in our country and also our government gives importance not to just to the nurses but also to all healthcare professionals.
How about in your country? Are they also treated right? What can you say?
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