August 25th, 2006
unemployed philippines, inc
well... well... well...
just like most people in my nursing batch of 2006, we have a really great problem... we are generally jobless... unemployed... bum...
we are still liabilities of our parents and our society....
sad as it may seem, we have no control over the matter... we are mere victims of the dishonesty of a few... the greediness of a few... the crab mentality of the some...
as for me and others who worked their asses out during the review deserve our licenses.... i mean, hey, i read the whole book of letty kuan... care for the elderly and the code of ethics for nurse prior to the exam... NOTHING came out of it... but i read it... i studied for many sleepless nights... we had our final coaching... they were just giving us tips, actually nothing regarding the vaccination came out...
just to clear things.... i reviewed at the ST. LOUIS REVIEW CENTER, MANILA.... we never got the leakage.... our brains bled with the thousands of questions we were tasked to answer over the two months of review....
i believe, it does not concern the review center... it concerns the education.... the training from our respective universities... not to brag, SLU, is one of the Center for Excellence in Nursing Education... we had to deal with four years of agony... we have previsits... you may be wondering about previsit.... it is when you get to literally visit, assess and interview before you go for duty the next day... we do it so we would be knowledgeab le of our patient's case... our ncp is bleeding to death with red ink... incident reports are overflowing in the clinical area... from simple erasure, wrong forwarding to proper time, late, lost ID, namplate, pin, unironed uniform... hugging, kissing, holding hands and going to the mall in uniform are only few of the strict rules of our university... every violation comes with an incident report.... no other school does it that way... or at least that is what i know...
so what happens next after passing the board?
do we have to wait for another year or so before we could put our education to practice?.. we may become all too rusty by then... or maybe enjoying the fat salary of being a call center agent in the streets of Makati... so what will happen to our batch? what will happen to us?...
retake? i would go for the retake with the folowwing conditions...
1.we do it before december.... we have wasted so much time and money over the past few months...
2.those named in the leakage should not be involved in any way regarding the retake...
3.all expenses should be shouldered by the government...
4. processing should be made easier... more smooth...
in the first place it is not our fault some people are so careless of their manuscripts or maybe not...
watching cheche lazaro's probe episode last wednesday night made me think... and rethink...
SOMEBODY HAS TO PAY FOR THIS...
AND THAT SHOULD NOT BE US...
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to test one's character, values and principles... just throw in the money, fame and power... the angel will soar or the devil will unveil its disguise
da_bob (guest)
But it doesn’t mean we turn a blind eye and let those culprits go. And when I say culprits, I didn’t mean the nurses who got the leakage, I’m referring to those who gave out the leakage and for letting it happen. For all we know the reviewers didn’t know it was a leakage until they saw the questions.
‘Cause the more we strain ourselves wanting these nurses to re-take the exam to “reclaim” their integrity – and the exam’s integrity – we tend to forget that there are real people to blame are the officials and their underlings who definitely turned a blind eye and allowed these things happen.