Nursing Jobs in the Philippines

Nowadays, a lot of high school graduates wanted to become a nurse as their profession. There's no doubt about it! Aside for having a neat, white and decent uniform, nurses are known for having a great salary compare to some other profession. I may agree on it, but not all nurses have a good salary, it still depends on the hospital rate. However, facing the reality, lack of nursing jobs in the Philippines triggers most nurses to stay unemployed.

Because there are lot of unemployed Filipino nurses today,  the Department of Labor and Employment made a move to solve the increasing number of unemployed nurses and increasing number of nurses working abroad. During the Arroyo administration, our former president made a program called NARS (Nurses Assigned in Rural Service), which helped unemployed nurses to work in some provinces which the medical assistance is difficult to render. These provinces are said to be poor and the people who live there cannot afford the hospital expenses. By that program, many unemployed nurses during those times had jobs and having a salary of 8,000 pesos per month.

With our new administration, the DOLE re-programmed the NARS and make it more accessible to our nurses. They called it the "RN Heals project". The new program requires the nurses to apply online, same with the NARS. It has almost the same system of application , but the DOLE expands the area to help more nurses. Experienced or inexperienced nurses can apply to the said program.  No discrimination in the program. Unlike those hospitals who requires 2 years experience with seminars or what so ever trainings they need. The government wanted to help our fellow nurses by giving more nursing jobs so they can practice what they had learned and expand they skills in rendering care in our own country. This may also lessen the increasing number of nurses working abroad.

Yes, sad to say that Filipino nurses need work abroad because of lack of job vacancy in our own country. They just wanted to practice their skills and the same time earn money for their family. And so, good to know that our government is making an effort to limit the number of nurses working abroad. I hope that this is a great start to polish more future great nurses in our country.