my former nursing classmates are now going to be doctors

personally, i would view this development as something good and favorable. doctors can always practice their profession anywhere they go. wherever one may go, there will always be people who will need the doctor's help. thus, i have the perception that the need for doctors all over the world shall always be high. i would take it to be something that is worth looking forward to that nurses strive to take further studies so they can be doctors just as well. as for doctors who are serving as nurses abroad, i gathered that they are serving as nurses who assist doctors in the operating room or as doctor/s assistants. this is a job which accordingly, requires a person who has a good knowledge in the medical field. thus, this is a fitting job for a doctor in so many ways.

I guess this is the only way they can really make use of their Nursing courses. I mean, let's face it, there are limited job offering for Nurses here and abroad. Unlike before when the demand was high, nowadays, everyboyd is in it for the promise of big money. I hope that all of our Nurses would be able to at least go abroad to save then come back and serve the country.

My friends have realized this as well and have taken the same steps. I still admire them for taking all these steps and going all through these.

Yes, I heard of it that a lot of nurses now are taking up medicine and my niece is one of them. I can say, "good for them,if they have the money why not, right?". We all know that being a doctor is far better in earning money than being a nurse if we are here in the Philippines. So I am glad they are making their own way out of this problem in nursing unemployment. Cheers!

What this country needs at this time are doctors and not nurses. The problem is becoming a doctor is not cheap. It would be good if after they become doctors they'll stay and serve their countrymen and not just gain enough experience and then leave the country too in pursuit of the greenback. But I guess they can do whatever they can and it's their choice to make. There's nothing wrong if those doctors go abroad to work as doctors but if those doctors go abroad to work as nurses then there's something terribly wrong.

i am a nurse too, and i find it's quite difficult to find a decent paying job for nurses...I plan on going back to school next year, i'll be taking up medicine too...

Good thing that is not my forte and nobody forces me to take that course since that is one of the most important course that you have to take it seriously especially it is about the life of the human. You will not only think on how to earn but the willingness must be coming from the person itself. This is a very long term to study and in my opinion I do really think that this is recommended for those people who are academically intelligent and hardworking at the same time that is serious in studies so that it could be easier for them on how to take care of human's body and analyze whenever there will be an operation.

Then this becomes a solid proof contrary to the claim that there is demand for nurses abroad. When this situation was at its peak, a lot have enrolled and took up this course. Nothing is wrong with this decision. However, many have failed to consider the fact that everything can change at will anytime. Whatever is in demand today cannot be in demand the next day, months, or years.

yeah, that's very true. Some of my classmates too are taking medicine. They said nursing is only their preparatory course in medicine.