Nurse, where are you now?

What is the most popular and populated profession in the Philippines for the past 10 years?

What is the profession with most number of underemployed and unemployed?

I presume we have the same thought, the same assumption and the same satirical impression!!!

NURSING...

The once most coveted degree, the once most promising degree and the once most presumed profession for those who are looking for greener pasture ABROAD.

“Yung tipong parang lahat ng barangay or purok meron at merong nurse...
Yung kung sinu-sinong mga propesyonal din ang kumuha ng narsing (doktor, dentista, etc)...

Yung tipong pag lalabas ang BOARD EXAM result parang yun lang ang kurso sa bansa kung abangan...

Yung tipong nagkaroon pa ng dayaan sa board exam...
Yung tipong PINAGKAKITAAN ng maraming low-quality schools, review centers, training centers, at agencies (fake and legit) ang mga nars...

Uso daw eh…? Kaya hayun nakiuso din ako…haha

Yes, I am a bachelor of this degree. I am a board passer and luckily had a considerable score of its national qualifying exam. Two years have gone from 'that' optimistic graduation but I am still a professional with some confusions, few regrets and blurred plans of what should I focus for my future. Is it on this degree or another? ANO? ANO? ANO?

As I was watching movie trailers for 2014, I came across this videoLINK (below), courtesy of BBC News World and Youtube. I can’t help but to be both proud and sad. Proud (1/10) in the sense that Filipino concerns are again featured in an international news but SAD (10/10) for the fact that I am a part of this effffin’ and heccckin’ TRUTH.

Philippines – Nurses cannot find jobs (BBC News)

Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mGolPW5ihw

In lieu to this, I have asked some nursing graduates where they are and how are they in terms with their ‘professional’ practice IF-THERE-IS.

I asked some of my friends of these MAJOR² QUESTIONS.

                                                NURSE WHEREABOUTS...

Where are you now?

Why?

Still into nursing?

Here are the most prominent answers they've provided me (I intended to publish it verbatim)

Chinitang RN - "Studying ACCOUNTANCY na lang. No choice for now eh."

RN Lawyer - "I am currently enrolled in a post-Baccalaureate Degree, Bachelor of Laws, because it has been a dream since I was a child. However, many are asking why have I made a sudden and abrupt shift from Nursing to Law; why have I not taken up Medicine instead? Well it's a choice actually. This is the chance for me to explore a different world. It's about the legal aspect this time. At least, I'd be very proud to tell everyone (with God's providence, if I finish this course) that I took two of the most basic degrees needed in order to withstand the common circumstances in this sophisticated world - a place where people are attached in strings of laws, and a place where people seek for nursing/medical care in order to survive. But I don't want to leave the aspect of nursing just that easy. As of the moment, I am conducting nursing lectures every Sundays apart from my week-long Law classes. In this way, I won't be able to forget all the basic nursing concepts that I have learned previously. Who knows, I will specialize in Nursing Jurisprudence or Legal Medicine when I finish the latter course."

That’s my Tambay, RN – "Where am I? Oh am just at home, hahaha…literally and figuratively kasi wala nga…wala ako mahanap na trabaho…kaya ito..dakilang katulong and sometimes tagaBP ng mga kapitbahay..o di ba. serbisyong totoo (haysss)"

Sexyhot, RN - "I am in the Philippines and i am studying Medicine here, i am so into Nursing, i am happy that it was my pre-med course although i may be having low scores on medtech related courses i sure am happy to know medical related terms like their skills and diseases."

Nagsisising, RN – "I am not really into nursing, as in, but my background on it help me in my new found career in Health Insurance Services, hahaha. BASTA kumikita ako..."

Hello Nurse? - "Hello, good morning, may I help you?...yan friend alam mo na kung asan ako haha. and yes into it pa ako...into it kung mas malaki na sweldo doon kesa dito!!! haha "

Others may be at therapy centers, tutorial centers, went to the armed forces or military barricades etc.

With what I've realized since last year, it’s as if NURSING is the PREcourse of other professions, work and/or other courses. Yeah! Yeah! 

EMBRACE THE TRUTH but LET US CLEAN THE MESS WE'VE MADE!!!

AND YOU? Where are you now?

p.s. I have started this blog since I have just previously ended a one-year contract of a previously ended nurse training program...in short, I am currently unemployed. H*ll yes!