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!

"dog-tired barefoot"

Every Saturday I feel as if a vampire sucked out galloons of my blood supply making me a weakling. As if my energy field has been suctioned out of my system by a pumping machine. As if my mind will just blow up and explode in an instance making my body paralyzed like a zombie. As if, I’m about to retire to deep slumber. Dead beat and worn-out me!

I am mentally and physically drained during this day, it’s the day of my masteral studies. Although, I’m only taking 3 long hours of 3 subjects each within the whole day, it’s as if it’s a 12- hour long toxic duty. Imagine, how much more exhaustion will I feel if I took another subject to make it a full load. I will become very dog-tired. Thank God, I didn’t enroled another one coz I think I will not be able to make it alive after Saturday classes. hehehe

I am really exhausted. It’s eating up my weekdays and even weekends. My usual lazy weekdays have turned out to be a weeklong for completion of necessary requirements to be submitted on a Saturday. My usual Saturday date with my hubby or night out with friends turns out to be a busy day in school and whenever I get home, exhaustion feels my existence to the brim!

Often times, I’m regretting why I went back to school and pursue further studies. With the new career opportunity at hand, I wonder will I still be able to pursue this degree despite the many hassles along the way?!? Will this masteral units earned be credited elsewhere or not at all?! Questions feel my drained brain and exhausted body.

But still, (I tend to instill in my system- hehehe) with the hunger and thirst for new knowledge and skills, a different environment with new faces and personality, a whole new feeling of regaining my confidence… I still breathe, give a big sigh and say “bring it on!” (I still tend to believe—argh)

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I stare at the blinking cursor on my notebook’s bright screen.
I stare on the blank and empty document.

I stare not knowing what to write.
I stare not feeling anything to share.

I stare out into the open
My minds bugged by so many things.
Too much! I shout inside my brain…

There are many complexities in life
Too much, too handle
With this one brain that I have on top,
With this one heart I have at the center,
Its getting too much, too handle…

I stare at the blinking cursor on my notebook’s bright screen.
I stare on what seems to be a something
Words visited and became a blurred idea,
I finally stare and it was really nothing…

ps. author is on a perplexed state of mind (apathetic)

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