Since there are many nurses in the Philippines the number of the hospital even private and public is not enough to sustain the job needs of many nurses. Most of the new graduates and board passer are doing volunteer works just to meet the standards of the Nursing Board in order for them to fly to other country.
The thing is that the PNA announced that they will no longer consider the volunteer nurses in the Philippines as a working experience. Having this kind of news makes me thinks of how new board passer nurses will survive in our country. After all the hardship in the board exam the new board passers are somehow having a hard time having a good job or even as a hospital volunteer. The system shows that we have lots of numbers of nurses in the Philippines and it sad to know that even volunteer service will not do a thing for the new nurses. As we all know most of the new nurses’ fall into this kind of service.
The decision of the PNA have come to this point because there are hospitals that are taking advantage of the new desperate nurses and they are requiring payment for the volunteer opportunity.
The truth is that there are lots of countries that are in need of a service of a nurse but the thing is that they are requiring for a years of working experience. The visibility of this rule is not yet well implemented especially in the hospital provinces. Since this is a new regulation it is more on word of mouth and is not yet giving so much effect for the nurses.
If this thing happens, new nurses really have to do the best thing that they can do because of the competition. The best help that volunteer experience in the hospital can do for your profession is that it can somehow help you to be a staff nurse if you show good records. You really need to give so much effort in nursing profession for you to excel.