oversupply

Last night, it was reported on the news that there is an oversupply of nurses here in the Philippines. There are high rates of unemployment for nurses in the country. According to the news research c/o PNA (Phil. Nurses Association) reasons includes: the retrogression in the US and the growing strictness of overseas application for nurses around the globe due to the growing demands for efficient nurses, local hospitals overstaffed with nurses, higher rates of training fees for new nurses, higher qualifications for employment and the lists goes on.

This was my predicament for almost a year now. My hubby disagrees with me on this matter. According to him, its logic that nurses simple doesn’t get a downfall. Patients will continue to go to hospitals and need the service of a nurse. He doesn’t see yet the real picture of nursing profession in our country.

But as per history dictates, there where cycles of nursing recession around the world. The demands for nurses may still be there but the demands to export nurses may be questioned. It is a given rule that hiring foreign nurses is a great business. They have to spend big capitals to hire nurses here in our country. And with the present global economic recession, I don’t think other countries will gamble on us for now. That is why, many nurses with ongoing petitions to the US, are stuck here for years now because of retrogression. Many nursing graduates every year are not given the opportunity to land a job. Because others who have plans to go abroad are put on hold and they simply can’t resign from their hospital jobs thus staff turnovers are low. Simply put in words, there is increasing number of nurses yet there are lesser job opportunities to fill the growing gap. Do you see my point?!? (hehehe)

Nursing is on its downhill. It is not a lucrative career for now. It just saddens me because nursing in our country has become a business. Despite the present situation, nursing schools are like mushrooms around town. They are milking cows and insensitive parasites giving false hopes to future nurses who only want to earn loads of money.

Reality check please! FYI, Now is not the right time to take up nursing neither to take a career in the nursing academe. Nurses now have different jobs on call centers, corporate world, business or even just a plain bum. Nurses are overstaffed in Philippine hospitals; most of the prestigious institutions are freeze hiring nurses or even charge a greater amount for training causing a pain in the ass of a newly inducted Pinoy nurse. A nurse who plans to go abroad experience a thick wall to climb and finds it very difficult to reach their dreams. Nursing now is on its downhill, check our history and you will discover that my predicament is true. Sad but true.

And reality bites hard, really!