The results of the Philippine Nursing Licensure Examinations were released Monday with 29,711 passers that would add to the country's crop of Registered Nurses (RN), but many are worried about the availability of job opportunities.
At least 35.35% of the 84,287 nursing graduates who took the December 2010 exams passed, a decrease from the 41.4% from the July 2010 batch. However, this still leaves the country with an oversupply of thousands of qualified professionals.
According to Senator Edgardo J. Angara, perhaps a solution to the unemployment woes of the country's RNs may be found in the
Registered Nurses for Health Enhancement and Local Services (RN HEALS) program from the Department of Labor and Employment. The program designates nurses to the local government units in rural areas.
"The RN HEALS project might just be able to address this issue -- some of the new nurses should be deployed to serve in the Rural Health Units (RHU) throughout the country, which would, perhaps, nudge the numbers in these areas closer to the optimum 1:10 nurse-to-patient ratio," he suggested. - PNA
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