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Out of the 78,000 nursing examinees who took the Nursing Board Exam June 2007, only around half will pass the NLE. The Department of Labor and Employment is formulating a new policy to allow the "flunkers" in the state-administered nursing licensure examinees last June to continue practicing their profession as "practical nurses."

Labor Secretary Arturo Brion said that only about only about 40,000 of the 78,000 examinees -- including the re-takers of the leakage-marred 2006 exam -- to pass the test.

"We're anticipating that many of them (flunkers) will do re-take so we think that one fall-back position is to have them licensed as practical nurses. This is assuming that there are some who would not do the re-take," Brion explained to reporters.

Brion also mentioned that the results of the June nursing board licensure exam would be released by middle of August.

Practical nurse in the Philippines are High School graduate who undergo a 2-year vocational nursing courses so that they can work in medical facilities. They perform simple medical tasks, mostly dealing with patient's medication and care, they should be under the supervision of a nurse or a physician.

Out of the 42,000 who took the June 2006 licensure examination, only 17,000 passed the test.
The government, however, was forced to administer a retake of two parts of the exam after the United States' Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools said it would not admit passers of the leakage-tainted June 2006 test.

Recently read an article in the Inquirer.net that nurses who does nto pass the exam will be credited


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1.  Reduction of medical residents’ work hours versus reduction in continuity of care: a modern medical dilemma

2.  Letting go as an art of Medicine

3.  Book review of George Orwell’s 1984

4.  Weight bias harming obese children

5.  8 Random Facts about me

6.  Blog and Soul Launch sponsored by Mrs. Fields

7.  The 17-year old who suddenly died (a case I’ve seen at the ER)

8.  Sequel to the Harry Potter series: Master of the Elder Wand

9.  Entry for SM Hypermarket Blog Writing Contest

10.  How do you raise an atheist child in the Philippines?

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12.  The man who died while his buddies are drinking with him

13.  Why be afraid of pink?

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In an article from International Herald Tribune published last July 20, the rich nations were blamed for the shortage of doctors, not only in the Philippines, but in all poor countries. As much as 18,000 Filipino doctors leave the country, mostly going to the U.S. to undergo training and eventually, to stay there for good.  Even Africa, where millions are afflicted with AIDS and very much in need of medical attention, is being drained of its doctors.  It appears that monetary compensation is one obvious factor why a healthcare professional leaves his home country.  Another less obvious one is career satisfaction, which some overzealous people think should be second priority to the god, Patriotism.  In the end, it is the recruitment of foreign-educated doctors by rich nations that is blamed for this “brain-drain”.

I don’t believe it is the rich nations’ fault that a lot of doctors flock to their countries for training and medical practice.  That is like blaming the bakery with the better-tasting bread for another bakery’s loss of loyal customers.  Or blaming a more reputable, consistent university for having more incoming freshmen than a college who’s failed to improve itself.  The rich nations are short of healthcare professionals and are willing to compensate well those who’d come to its shores to work, which is admirable really because it shows how much they care about their nation’s health and well-being that they’d spend for its survival and maintenance.

And now, contrast this with what is happening in our country.

The government allocates some money for healthcare but, clearly, it isn’t enough.  It would rather spend money on aircraft than on ample supply of antibiotics and medical equipment in our government hospitals.  Directors of these government hospitals are only left to having to make do with what are given to them.  Dr. Rasalan’s tale of how more than one patient are squeezed into a rickety cot and recycled gloves and surgical needles are autoclaved are true horror stories.  Every medical clerk who has been rotated to any government (or semi-private) hospital can attest to that.  Even years after being rotated to such hospital, I still cannot forget the smell of such places.  It’s like a mixture of the scents of menstrual blood and bleach.  And if ever anyone would contemplate painting futility, the sight of relatives ambubagging dying relatives because of unavailability of ventilators would very much be appropriate subject.

Also, because of the lack of budget for healthcare, government doctors, nurses, and hospital employees are underpaid and overworked.  Our residents-in-training are now no strangers to working 72-hours straight duties compared to those training abroad who’re working at most 30-hour shifts.  Doctors abroad even perform research studies to analyze if their work shift schedules are humane, especially for those who’re still in training.  In our country, these studies exist, as residents’ research papers, but nobody pays attention to the findings that even a 24-hour work shift is already too much.  Instead, those who’re supposed to be concerned brush it aside and dismiss it as trivial or inapplicable, believing that what has been tradition should be followed, regardless of what new findings will come up.  Nurses are also forced to have more workload but with no equivalent increase in pay.  Ideally, there should only be 3 patients at most being handled by one nurse.  But in our government hospitals and even in private hospitals, a nurse is forced to handle 20-30 patients because the hospital wouldn’t hire more nurses.  And, of course, the hospital expects that the additional workload is only small and doesn’t deserve an increase in payment.  This also happens to other hospital employees, especially the nurse aides and the orderlies.

And so it seems that both the government and the current medical system are at fault and are contributory to the nation’s deteriorating healthcare.  But what if we take out the government from the equation, as suggested by one of this blog’s frequent readers?

I’d say, it would have been more helpful if the government officials are less idiotic than they are now.  And even if the private aspect of medical care manages to give what is due (better wages and more humane duties and treatment of training doctors), a great part of health sector is public and thus, it would be like racing uphill with only one leg.  It’s so romantic to hear “let’s not blame the government and just do it ourselves.”  In reality, this is just simply unfair because it would not be just that only the private sector (a handful of private individuals) will act on a problem that is nationwide in scope.

My point here, after a lengthy exposition, is that we should look within the country for the solutions to our problem.  We cannot order rich nations to stop what they’re doing because they’re doing it for their survival.  We do not have the right to do that.  One reason why I encourage doctors who’re unsatisfied with work here to leave because it’s the only way I see now to make the apathetic government and the rest of the nation see that there is a problem and by sacrificing doctors to the god, Patriotism, isn’t going to solve the problem.  It would be very unfortunate indeed if this country runs out of sacrificial lambs and still not realize that the problem lies within its system.

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This is the question that we have to address in today's post.

Im sure alot of you have seen a donation buttons in some of the blogs that have been existing for quite sometime and have enormous traffic already. You normally see them on wuite a nuber of locations on a blog. Some would put it on the very noticeable area on blog either on the left or right upper quadrant of the page, some would put it after each and every post and some, just poout it in texlinks asking.

Personally, i dont think anyone would give someone money in an instant just like that. Not unless. . .

• They earn from the information the blogger gave them
• They have taken something very important to them
• They owe the blogger. - this one im not so sure about.
  

Nonetheless, the 3 are coming from the fundamental fact that someone BENEFIT from the blogger.

As a matter of opinion, if i have earned from the information the blogger gave me, it would take me some time to finally decide if i am to give him his 'tip' for the info.

There are, however, some individuals who pulled it off. Take note of the likes of John Chow (enough said) and Jason Krottke.

His story is that in the early part of 2005 he decided to quit his employment to take up being a professional blogger for one year.

His blog doesn't offer any form of service or product, and there is no advertising. His income, I'm told, is (or at least was) purely from donations. In February of 2006 Jason revealed that roughly 1450 'micropatrons' had donated over US$39,900 over the course of his one year experiment of being a full time blogger.

In this case Jason already had a good following and donations were to become a micropatron. He also had that relationship established with his readers.

The Verdict:
Having donation buttons is effective if used at an appropriate time and an appropriate audience. You might ask should i try it? If i ever want to have one on my blog, ill make sure every penny donated is worth while. So, not in the near future. ;)



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