Nurses turning to call center agents
February 8th, 2010 Posted under: About Nursing, Nursing Articles, Nursing jobs by jaybee
The result of the November 2009 Nursing Licensure Examination is now published. Though the result of the exam is low in percentage this still produced a number of more than 37,000 new registered nurses in the Philippines. This will now be a new competitor for the past nurses who have passed theboard and yet struggling for a job position in any hospital in the Philippines.
Given with this fact most of the registered nurses are going into the different kind of jobs that are not inline with their profession. I have seen many of the new registered nurses that are working in the fast food chain as service crew or working in a sales agent in a Department store. Take note that they are registered nurses. Some of them have even spent thousands of money just for their review center and not to mention the hardships and the money they spent in the time when they are studying. 
I am very much aware of the hardship of finding a job position in any hospital. If you are one of the new boar passer then the possible position that you can take is to be a volunteer in a public hospital. Being a volunteer will only give the registered nurse a hundred of salary every month. This is the main reason on why most of the nurses in the Philippines are turning to call center agents as their full time job. The earnings of a typical call center agent can’t be compared to the earnings of a typical nurse in the hospital. If you are going to look at it closely the job of the call center agent can be acquire given with a two months certificate training. While our nurses even spend five years of schooling just to have their licensed in their hands. The jobs of the call center agents are indeed hard as well especially if you are talking about the graveyard schedule. But compare to the daily stress that our nurses are facing each day in the hospital this is absolutely no big deal.
This is actually the reason on why some of the nursing graduate are kissing their licensed goodbye and turning to call center agents as their main source of income. This is the real picture of the nursing profession in the Philippines and unless you go and take your flight off towards other country it will be difficult for you to adjust your way of living.
