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Subject: REALITY CHECK..!! Author: ABJ [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 22:43:03 09/03/03 Wed There is an on-going concern among "our beloved mentors/teachers/professors" back home in the Philippines I read a couple of weeks ago on-line in one of the major Philippine national newspapers. Our Filipino nursing leaders noted a decline in the quality of Philippine nursing education since there has been a growing number of Filipino nursing educators or experts or teachers that left the country inorder to seek better opportunities abroad. Knowing that this could affect us, the Filipino nurses, and the kind of care we are giving to our clients including the healthy and the sick Filipinos in the Philippines, would this be a big concern to the PNAA and the entire community of Filipino nurses in the Philippines, in the US and in other countries abroad? What do you guys think? What are we going to do about it? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: REALITY CHECK..!! Author: James [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 00:04:42 09/11/03 Thu The concern for the deteriorating nursing education is highly appreciated. While it may affect the quality of future nurses in the Philippines and the quality of patient care, on a broader perspective, there is not much we, who are here abroad, can do to improve the quality of nursing education. I believe the solution is highly political, social and economical in perspective. The exodus, some call it hemorrhage of Filipino nurses, of highly trained and qualified nursing instructors from the Philippines to developed countries is primarily motivated by economic reasons. While educators have the inherent love for teaching, I believe WE cannot let opportunities pass for our own future and our children's too. If only the government can do something, I believe there is a better way to manage this problem. Nurses would not leave the country if WE can live comfortably there. Unfortunately, there's nothing they can do. CHED (Commission on Higher Education) keeps on approving schools to offer nursing - even with the knowledge that there are Deans or instructors who are not qualified. DOH nor PNA is not doing anything to improve the plight of our nurses back there. And even if they do, the bottom line is...Philippines cannot provide the same opportunities offered in other countries. And while the "committed instructors" would want to devote their time to teaching, "what the future can bring them" shall and forever be the main reason of this exodus of nurses. PS. I can empathize because I was a nursing instructor for 10 years, the last 2 years were spent productively as a Dean in one of the top universities in the Philippines. Just came to the USA with my family in 2002 as immigrants.