Author:
E. Falcon, RN, MD etc
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Date Posted: 13:00:32 09/30/03 Tue
>To all my colleagues in the Nursing & Medical
>Profession
>
>I am a physician, a specialist, a succesful
>practitioner and a green card holder too, who went
>into NURSING. I am just waiting to take my NCLEX which
>I dont see a big obstacle on my way.
>
>A healthy nation has a good healthcare system and
>education. That is what I learned from the nursing
>school, a school I dont even dream of enrolling if I
>am new graduate from high school. But I am very
>grateful as " second courser or a physician" the big
>school in nursing will not accept me even if studied
>in UP or UST, for that matter a board passer in flying
>colors with my specialty. I think the big school is so
>bureaucratic and professionally jealous that we are
>invading their profession (that is their own words) of
>course they will not accept it. Well, Education is a
>basic right, period
>
>Now you will see in the board exams, topnotchers came
>from the nowhere land nursing schools! Definitely it
>is not leakage, teachers nor nowhere land nursing
>schools. It is us students. Our mentors are EXCELLENT
>and they dont have a hard time teaching us nursing
>for obvious reason. The Traditional Nurses knows that
>too and it is inevitable.
>
>Nursing is still fresh in me as a student. As a
>physician, a specialist, a teacher, battle hardened
>surgeon in all sort of medical and surgical exercises,
>maybe my opinion regarding Philippine Nursing
>education will be summarized as slow, not globally
>oriented and politically oriented just like the PMA.
>As if you conclude anything FILIPINO is politically
>oriented. Maybe spiced with some tsismis from chief
>nurse here and there like Kris Aquino nowadays.
>
>The Nursing system is runned like an amiga system, the
>deans, the chief nurses, the BON are all amigas
>because one way or another they belong to the same
>school, same age group, same post grad school at UP.
>UE, UST wasting their time to learn NAMDA at the same
>time, leaving behind what is due to the "nursing
>education for the nursing student" Please excuse me
>that is my opinion and how I perceive it since I am at
>the profession for a long time.
>
>It is still fresh in me when I studied my nursing; I
>was awaken that the real nursing is spent for the last
>two years! The first two years is a waste of money
>(devised by CHED?). Then the real nursing education is
>peppered with irrelevant, out of tune emphasis in
>nursing history, COPAR, and other diluting topics in
>nursing. If I am going to summarize it I am just
>barely using 30% of my nursing education in the
>Philippines to pass the US Board. So dont tell us
>that the nursing education is going down. You are to
>slow to adapt to the changing environment in nursing
>globally. We are now in the technically oriented
>nursing care. Even US Nurse graduate had a hard time
>digesting this, on top of learning medical
>terminology, anatomy, microbiology, physiology,
>pharmacology etc. My computer knowledge is as good as
>staring on the computer by itself.
>
>Whether Nursing is fast becoming independent practice
>and the profession is devising her own lingo like
>client to a patient, Nursing Diagnosis to a Medical
>Diagnosis, We nurses cannot get away from the medical
>world and its advances.
>
>My Nursing colleagues in the Philippines, Deans, Chief
>Nurses and the people running the show of nursing
>education we are running behind! The Nursing Education
>like Medicine as a profession is tinted with politics
>like the F#@%ing politicians screwing the Filipino
>people.
>
>Medical Information, Nursing Information change ten
>fold every year! As a teacher you have to digest that
>too to become effective teacher. How many can afford
>to study M.A.N as you described it in order to teach?
>If you are intellectually honest give the nursing
>education what is due to them and stop politics!
>
>Our life in the Philippines is diluted, poisoned with
>a lot of things that will not improve the quality of
>life of every Filipinos. The politicians and the
>voters, they mix nicely to put the country into drain.
>As a Nation, We simply dont have a focused direction
>in that includes the Nursing Education !
>
>I am chatting here because that is my obligation to
>speak out. This forum will be probably effective if
>you concentrate in helping our poor, exploited nurses
>in the Philippines rather chika chika, where are you,
>how are you, I am here topics.
>
>Please dont be offended, somebody must be a
>contrabida to put us in one direction.
>
>Thank you
>
>Edmund Falcon, MD, RN, BSN, BS Psycho, certified MA,
>Fellow PSOHNS etc....and all that useless vowels and
>consonants we are fond of putting in our name
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