The nursing profession is so exploited.

Hello akatsu! i am a nurse too. It took me 2 years to wait before I was employed in a hospital. It is very difficult since there are a lot of us. When I am working, we have a very high patient load and I always come home very tired. If i could turn back time I dont want to study nursing. I would want to have office work.

You're a Nurse too. I am a Nurse too. I envy you because you graduated in college with honors. You are skillful too. How I wish that the booming of Nurses will soon decline. To be a Nurse is not an easy job. How I wish that this issue will be resolved in the next few years.

if that's the case then the only choice you have is to go somewhere else (abroad) for you to get yourself a decent nursing job. i'm sorry you feel that way, i'd surely feel the same way too if i were in your situation.

Oh friend... dont feel glum. I am a licensed medical technologist but i am not using my profession because of the low pay. ySo bad it seems though that our nurses had to go out of the country to have a decent pay. I do feel for the jobless nurses here. They have crammed and studied for 4 years and for what.... a measly pay? Just recently, i have met with the CEO handling Philippine medical tourism. They are putting up higher standards for hospitals, clinics and even wellness spas to improve the medical tourism here. What they do is that, they seek out retirees from different countries and encourage them to retire and stay in the Philippines where they can be attended to by filipino nurses in the aging homes. They are strategically finding means on how they could retain the filipino nurses here. But then, this would take time. All i can say is that, please bear with the intricacies.. Just dont feel sad... The world needs good nurses like you.

It should come as no surprise, many here want to be nurses. Nursing has been considered one of the most important jobs around. As you had mentioned, the duties a nurse carry out require no more than taking vital signs and asking the patient a few questions regarding the ailment and this is the reason why many choose to study nursing because the ease is something they agree with and other courses do not promise the same or the student lack the necessary skills for that course. Still, it is way better to have an educational attainment instead like many who hadn't even finished high school.

Unlike Teachers Nurses are one thing not just exploited but degraded as well, I have relatives who have graduated too with honors but end up jobless and underemployed, it is so sad you spend so much while you are in college do the burning of eyebrows during examinations for what? Me I choose the teaching profession because it does not run out of opportunities. Like if you cannot teach in a classroom there is the tutorial which is very in demand today but I am not saying that being a teacher we do not have our share of anguish but education is a continues never ending processes and for that I feel your pain for that matter in the nursing profession.

That is the consequence of too many parents wanting their children to work abroad and earn dollars. Four years ago, the opportunity to get out of the country was huge. So everyone enrolled in the kurso ng bayan.But the world changed drastically and even America is gripped with health care problems. Now we are stuck with nurses nowhere to go. My nephew is a registered nurse, too. He is a call center agent.

If it makes you feel any better think of it this way - many people end up with careers drastically different from the ones they went to school for. I am still in school, but I doubt I will end up with a career based on my degree. At least if the time comes when nurses are needed in the job market, you can be more than eligible to apply.