Case Study Of Nurses In The Philippines

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LOCAL STUDY
The Volunteer Phenomenon of Nurses in the Philippines
CECILIA C. PRING
Lyceum of the Philippines University
Capitol Site, Batangas City

INTRODUCTION
Nursing is the nation’s largest health care profession, with 2.6 million registered nurses (RN’s), and many more needed in the future. Nurses are the largest single component of any hospital staff, the primary provider of hospital patient care and they deliver most of the nation’s nursing home care. Nurses work in a variety of other settings. Nursing has become the preferred course of a growing number of college enrollees. The CHED’s Policy, Planning, Research and Information Office sees almost half a million or 497,000 students taking the nursing course in the school year 2008-2009 (manilatimes.com). While many countries in the world are experiencing nursing shortage, the Philippines appear to have an oversupply of nurses. The Officer-in-Charge of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), Commissioner Ruth R. Padilla, revealed that the country has an oversupply of 400,000 licensed nurses and that the hospitals can only accommodate 60,000 nursing positions (Jaymalin, 2008). Padilla also pointed out that the country yearly produces 100,000 licensed nurses; however, no additional positions are created in the government and private hospitals nationwide. The recent board exam of November 2008 revealed additional 39,000 new registered nurses (PDI Inventory of nurses cited in Lorenzo 2008). According to Francisco

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