Philippines is one of the countries which are producing large number of nursing graduates. Not only nursing graduates but also nurses.

Highly industrialized countries salute the nurses we produce. However, other countries are discouraged in pooling nurses in our country because of the leakage issue and because of the large number of new colleges opening due to nursing trend thus lowering the level of nursing education in our country.

But my question is, is it still in trend?

Based on my observation, nursing as a course is in-demand or hot course way back our batch, nowadays few are enrolling; nursing as a job - it is really a stagnant one. No vacancy, limited number of nurses going abroad, limited job opprtunities, a lot of nurses are jobless. So high number of nurses are applying for jobs not related to the course.

One question is in my mind: Why nurses who are receiving 6,000php as a salary is still doing the job? Many nurses are quitting because salary doesn’t fit the need of their family and that they really need to quit the job, but why some of the nurses are still continuing the job???

Nursing is a profession. The answer lies there. Money  is not the answer. Money cannot give the same fulfilment nursing can give.

So is it still in trend? Nursing is always in trend because of the health updates, never ending discovery of diseases and we haven’t experienced a hospital without a patient right?

So a good question is, is it in an upward trend? Based on the job opportunity in the Philippines, I may say we are in a stagnant, free flowing stage.

The good thing about the Filipino nurses is that we are capable of adapting easily  to the changes of our profession, we are applying what we have learned into our daily lives.

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