“Knowledge can be learned, skills can be trained but the attitude of a nurse is innate.” Nursing is a vocation rather than a high paying profession as others, may see it. It echoes like simple as it sounds yet it is by nature true.
These were the words that I heard from a speaker during my IV therapy update course last week. And just a couple of days ago, I was reading a blog by a frustrated nursing student on why student nurses are always seen in the malls strolling with their white uniform and not seen in the confines of their respective hospital duty or classroom lectures. The blogger goes on by stating her perspective as a nursing student at present generation. Almost everyday, as I turn on my tv in a morning show, I can’t help but wonder why the hell do I see these nursing students clad in their white duty uniform accompanied by their respective clinical instructors be doing in an early morning show dancing their butts off in front of national television to the tune of locomotion song. Isn’t it downright crazy and brutally demeaning?!? Should they be drag to their respective clinical assignments in the hospital and learning their basic nursing care?!?
Hey, I have nothing against the show. I myself get drowned with the chismax and the “last song syndrome” of the show. yes, and its purely entertainment. But poor nursing studs and the CI’s who got jaded by a minute or so of so-called fame or exposure in the boobtube. Honestly, I would not be as a furious monster now, if it only happened once. But literally, almost every single day I see such nursing studs from different schools being exposed to such thingy? Is this their immersion program for nursing studs nowadays? Is this the plight of the nursing education now? Clearly with the dropping numbers of successful board passers, complaints in the hospital care management plus increasing number of incident reports of newly grad nurses, it directly correlates to the problem. Is this what we call the “world class professional pinoy nurses of the future”?!?
With the growing number of wannabe nursing schools and even long standing universities hiring unqualified clinical instructors with entrepreneurial deans, we can clearly say that the nursing education has become a business!
Oftentimes, I share my sentiments to my CI friends who are in the “passion of educating future nurses”, to at least be not just educators/mentors but advocators for spreading the passion and heart of nursing. To instill to their students the grave value of their course, not just for the heck of passing or for the future monetary benefits.
But what intrigues me is that, more often than not, my CI friends don’t have a choice for they are under dictatorship of their respective schools. With the growing number of entrepreneur monsters lurking in the different nursing schools, the term failing a student doesn’t apply but rather “don’t fail any student or else…” applies to all. These are factual demands straight from the horse’s mouth (as they say), that were given to them in order to maintain high enrollees. Even though, my CI friends believed that their students even doesn’t deserve to have a passing 75% grade.
On the other hand, most of the nursing students nowadays clearly don’t know what they are getting themselves into. Most of them do not value their course and do not see the greater responsibilities ahead of them. They don’t take the initiative to learn and be trained. More importantly they don’t have the attitude and passion to become a nurse. They clearly do not see that life is at stake here, the future of their patient’s health is in one way or another, in their hands. Life itself, literally from womb to tomb. That’s the whole picture. To date, I only see quite a few individuals who really has their passion for the nursing course that they are into. Because if truly, I am wrong with my crazy perspectives and insights, then why the hell do I see future nurses to be in such a big trouble, huh?!
(Big sigh) laters…
Hey, I have nothing against the show. I myself get drowned with the chismax and the “last song syndrome” of the show. yes, and its purely entertainment. But poor nursing studs and the CI’s who got jaded by a minute or so of so-called fame or exposure in the boobtube. Honestly, I would not be as a furious monster now, if it only happened once. But literally, almost every single day I see such nursing studs from different schools being exposed to such thingy? Is this their immersion program for nursing studs nowadays? Is this the plight of the nursing education now? Clearly with the dropping numbers of successful board passers, complaints in the hospital care management plus increasing number of incident reports of newly grad nurses, it directly correlates to the problem. Is this what we call the “world class professional pinoy nurses of the future”?!?
With the growing number of wannabe nursing schools and even long standing universities hiring unqualified clinical instructors with entrepreneurial deans, we can clearly say that the nursing education has become a business!
Oftentimes, I share my sentiments to my CI friends who are in the “passion of educating future nurses”, to at least be not just educators/mentors but advocators for spreading the passion and heart of nursing. To instill to their students the grave value of their course, not just for the heck of passing or for the future monetary benefits.
But what intrigues me is that, more often than not, my CI friends don’t have a choice for they are under dictatorship of their respective schools. With the growing number of entrepreneur monsters lurking in the different nursing schools, the term failing a student doesn’t apply but rather “don’t fail any student or else…” applies to all. These are factual demands straight from the horse’s mouth (as they say), that were given to them in order to maintain high enrollees. Even though, my CI friends believed that their students even doesn’t deserve to have a passing 75% grade.
On the other hand, most of the nursing students nowadays clearly don’t know what they are getting themselves into. Most of them do not value their course and do not see the greater responsibilities ahead of them. They don’t take the initiative to learn and be trained. More importantly they don’t have the attitude and passion to become a nurse. They clearly do not see that life is at stake here, the future of their patient’s health is in one way or another, in their hands. Life itself, literally from womb to tomb. That’s the whole picture. To date, I only see quite a few individuals who really has their passion for the nursing course that they are into. Because if truly, I am wrong with my crazy perspectives and insights, then why the hell do I see future nurses to be in such a big trouble, huh?!
(Big sigh) laters…
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