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Nursing For Greener Pastures

January 28, 2008

They are everywhere! For crying out loud! Nursing students are everywhere! You go to a mall, you see a bunch of them walking, laughing and giggling at every corner! Puhleeze! Aren’t they suppose to be studying? You’re driving on your way home and you suddenly have to hit the brakes because a student wearing a white uniform didn’t see your car coming. Crap Nursing students! You guys are everywhere, polluting the world with white uniforms!

For everyone’s information, I am also a nursing student. I love my course, well not love “love” but I learned to love it over the past years. I never imagined myself taking up nursing and wearing an all white uniform, white blouse, white skirt, white shoes, with cap, WITH WHITE PANTY HOSE STOCKINGS! Who wears that kind of stuff?

I remember my niece Andy, (Tita Joan’s Eldest daughter), 4 years ago, I modeled my first newly sewed nursing uniform fresh from the seamstress in front of my family at dinner time. While I was too busy walking at the cat walk, doing my nursing pose (oh! don’t try to imagine it!) and receiving plastic comments from my parents (they have to do that so that I wouldn’t be discouraged from taking the course) my niece Andy suddenly blurted out, “Ate Camille, you look like a yaya.” With a scrutinizing look on her face, can you imagine how a 5 year old can humiliate you just by being honest? Kids now-a-days.

Thank you Andy, your comment is highly appreciated. Way to go girl!

So, why is everyone studying nursing? Possibly for the same reason as mine.

Dollars, dollars dollars. I’m sorry, but money does make the world go round. I took up Nursing because I realized NAPAKAHIRAP NG BUHAY SA PILIPINAS. So I took the easy way out, let me rephrase it, I took the i-thought-easy-way-out. Jeez, it’s not easy taking up Nursing!

First, I have to forget what course I would really want to take up. So in other words, I have to kill my dream. I have to put it to trash and possibly start a new one. It works though. I don’t know what I wanted 4 years ago. Now, when people ask me, I say with a proud face, I want to become a Doctor, a surgeon to be exact. I’m just taking up Nursing as a pre med. SOSYAL!

Second, I have to endure the frustrated look at other people’s face when they say “akala ko sa Ateneo ka nagaaral, sa FEU pala” OH MY GOD TALAGA! Enough enough. Very nostalgic.

Third, I.have to S-T-U-D-Y! damn, Pharmacology and Microbiology! Those are the two subjects that I struggled to pass! How am I supposed to memorize generic names of medicines and names of microbes if I don’t even know how to pronounce them! Oh and don’t you dare forget how hard it is to spell them!

Fourth, ANG GASTOS MAGNURSING. Ang mahal ng tuition fee, books, uniforms (mind you, my lecture uniform, duty uniform, scrub suit, and sa ibang schools pagdating ng fourth year magpapalit kayo ng uniform, may P.E uniform pa pala.), mga fee ng kung ano ano, capping, seminars, COPAR, plus a whole lot more. MIND YOU may fee pa ang board exams. At hindi lang isa ang test na kailangan mong i-take

Fifth, BOARD EXAMSSSSS, Local Boards, NCLEX, CGFNS, IELTS, sige lang, tell me if you can handle the pressure.

If you think nursing is your key to greener pastures, Think again! It may just make your life miserable! Nursing is not the easy way to become rich. It requires hardwork, dedication and a heart. If you don’t take it seriously, nagtatapon ka lang ng pera. You have to take it seriously for you to pass the board EXAMSSSS. If you don’t pass it, sayang lang ang pagaaral mo ng apat na taon dahil diploma lang ang hawak mo - Wala kang lisensya. Grabe, if only I can put into words the pressure that I am feeling right now. It’s unexplainable. It’s nerve wrecking. No wonder why not all graduates of my course didn’t end up as a successful registered nurse.

You have to want it so bad for you to become successful. You don’t have to waste time on nonsense things, like hanging out at the mall or spending the whole day at a computer shop playing Dota. You have to read, read and read. You have to stay up all night for a report. You have to study weeks before an exam just for you to get a passing mark. You have to spend hours inside the library for research. Oh! and the clinical rotations! Deadly. (There would be definitely a new blog for that; right now I’m talking about the theoretical hardships of Nursing.)

I hope after writing this, mababawasan na ang mga nakaputing nakatambay sa mga mall. Let’s help produce quality nurses. We may JUST be nurses in the eyes of other people but they don’t know how hard and vital our work is. We care, we nurture and we touch lives.

Student Nurses, let’s take our course seriously. We handle lives – enough said.

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3 Responses to “Nursing For Greener Pastures”

  1. PinoyBlurker » Blog Archive » links for 2008-01-28 on January 28th, 2008 11:24 pm

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  2. barefoot_alchemist on January 28th, 2008 11:36 pm

    as a nurse myself, i am saddened with the deteriorating status of nursing educ nowadays. kip in mind that nursing is a vocation. knowldg cn be learned, skills can b trained but the attitude of a nurse is innate.

    i hope you will shed a light on this matter.

    kip on blogging!

  3. LL on February 25th, 2008 4:40 pm

    hi, i was researching about articles regarding students taking up nursing as their coursefor our thesis, and well your page appeared and i clicked it. I’m 17 years old, a freshman college student taking up nursing, but it’s not really what i want. pinilit lang ako ng parents ko. let me tell you that after reading your above blog, I realized that nursing is not for me. And next year i am going to shift and pursue the real course that i like. So thank you, your realistic and honest blog helped me to really follow my dream. Thank you, what you wrote made a huge impact on me and on my future and i hope that it will also make a huge impact on others. Good luck on your career!..:)

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