Filipino Nursing Herald

Nursing school tuition in the Philippines can run up to P60,000 or more per semester. Depending on the institution, tuition will probably cost from P500 to P800 per unit for mid to low-end colleges. High end schools would probably charge P100,000 or more per school semester. Hospital affiliation fees command huge pay outs, ranging from P20,000 to over P35,000 per semester. Affiliation fees are what students pay supposedly for being allowed to intern at a hospital, but if you look at what students these days are getting from their hospital experience, you'd think hospital internships are nothing more than just glorified training for taking vital signs--blood pressure, temperature, pulse and respiratory rates. There's simply too much of that going on but too little of real nursing education about patient care and safe drug administration. Clinical instructors who are supposed to teach students eight hours every meeting, spend less than two hours with students because they've ...

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) wants the government to closely monitor nursing school across the country to protect students from sub-standard education. The TUCP, in a statement, said enrollment in nursing schools continue to surge. Enrollment this school year in more than 400 nursing schools have jumped by 30% to 632,108 students from 486,233 last year. TUCP spokesman Alex Aguilar urged the Commission on Higher Education to closely monitor schools and step up their drive against schools that act merely as "diploma mills". Aguilar also called for improved regulation of the local nursing eligibility examination to protect its integrity

NPR.org reports that the U.S. continues to face a critical shortage of nurses as some 80 million baby-boomers are set to retire soon. Although there are more applications to nursing schools that in the past, the lack of educators are forcing schools to turn applicants away. Read the full story from the NPR Web site by clicking here or listen to the audio report by clicking here . demand for nurses The demand for nurses is expected to outstrip the number coming out of nursing schools in the coming years, as some 80 million baby-boomers near retirement age. Although applications to nursing schools are up 40 percent from a decade ago, there aren't enough educators to train them.

The number of applicants for nursing schools in the US is so overwhelming, one college in California says it can only accommodate those at the bottom of its waiting list in 2011. Cuesta College officials say they have stopped accepting applicants for its nursing program and are looking for ways to expand their capacity. An executive of the California Institute for Nursing and Health Care adds that the problems in Cuesta reflect a statewide situation where too few education slots are available. In 2005, nursing programs statewide turned away up to 14,000 qualified applicants. Read the full story here.

It seems a number of visitors to our site were not able to download or open the list of Philippine nursing schools because the file was encoded in Microsoft 2007 format. Our good friend, Noel, brought this to our attention. We've already fixed the problem and the file is now downloadable in PDF format. You can download the file here . In case you don't have a PDF reader, you can get a free reader by following this link: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html .

Hundreds of Filipino professionals, including doctors, lawyers, engineers, and accountants, among others, are going back to school to pursue a degree in nursing. Even Filipino immigrants in the US are going back to the country to enrol in schools here because of the tight competition for slots in community colleges and the high cost of private nursing colleges there. We've provided a list of Philippine nursing schools that accept second-degree enrollees to help would-be nursing students find the right school for them. This list is by no means an endorsement of any of the institutions included here. Before you enrol in any of the nursing programs, check with the Commission on Higher Education (www.ched.gov.ph) if the school you've chosen has full accreditation and that they are allowed to offer a nursing program up to the fourth year. Some schools are only licensed to offer the associate program (2 years), which means that if the schools has not received the full accreditation b...