MANILA, Philippines – Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano is pushing for higher pay for government nurses in the proposed 2015 national budget.
Cayetano noted that based on the records of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), the proposed upgrading of some 4,787 entry level Nurse I positions under the 2002 Nursing Law would pose an additional P438,109,687 worth of outflow for the government per annum.
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Forced Volunteerism for Pinoy Nurses
Oversupply of nurses forces them to pay to work for free
By Ibarra Mateo
Nurse Salva (not his real name) is harried and hungry as he inspects a patient’s intravenous line in the surgical ward of a government hospital in Quezon City. It is almost 10 a.m. and doctors are winding up their rounds. He has been up since 4 a.m. but his exacting eight-hour work shift rarely gives him time to get a full meal, so he gets by on cheap hard candies when hunger pangs strike.
Job Opportunities for Pinoy Nurses in the Middle East!
Job Opportunities for Filipino Nurses in the Middle East!
Countries in the Middles east Pinoyhave the most number of job opportunities for Filipino nurses. A lot of medical institutions in the Arab countries highly regarded the knowledge and ability of every registered Filipino nurses which is why most of the foreign nurses there are from thePhilippines
Cynthia Villar : "Room Nurse" Issue
Naging malaking issue
nga itong comment na binitawan ni Madam Cynthia Villar sa National Television
regarding sa mga student nurses o pinoy nurses natin. Di nagustuhan ng
karamihan at nagbigay ng mga negatibong reaksiyon ang mga Pinoy Nurses, di
lamang sa Pilipinas kundi pati na din yung mga nasa abroad.
British royal quips PH 'must be half empty'
British royal quips PH 'must be half empty'
By Kim Arveen Patria
The high number of Filipinos employed as health workers abroad had United Kingdom's Duke of Edinburgh wondering if the country was "half empty."
50 Secrets Your Nurse Won’t Tell You
50 Secrets Your Nurse Won’t Tell You
By Michelle Crouch from Reader's Digest, | November 2011
What really happens in the bedrooms and halls of our
hospitals? Find out from the experts. Here, nurses shed light on the
secrets only a nurse would know.
Dirty Little Secrets
1. "We're not going to tell you your doctor is incompetent, but if I say, 'You have the right to a second opinion,' that can be code for 'I don't like your doctor' or 'I don't trust your doctor.'" — Linda Bell, RN, clinical practice specialist at the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses in Aliso Viejo, California
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