Silliman University

I think we can be taught (even indoctrinated) anything BUT we will be the ones who decides what to do with it.

 

Very few of Philippine Nurses can pass the nursing license exam in the US and often have to get extra training and study to do so. A few schools have better rates but the simple truth is almost none of them teach nursing as its done in developed western countries. Some of the *nursing* class's I've seen go into subjects like doing laundry and folding (seriously wtf) and numerous other laughable categories because of credit requirements. I've also known a number of nurses (nurses who graduated and are working as nurses) who's knowledge of medication names and effects is laughable while this is an important part of US nursing.

One of the secrets is does your kid really have a dream to be a nurse along with the motivation for self learning which is where most of the successes come from.... or are they just another attending because family said so, its a possible way out of the Philippines, or a decent career IF you can get hired fulltime by a public hospital because only the first one is likely going to be worth investing in. So many nurse grads here never go onto being nurses because they didn't learn sh*t and they can't get a paying job as a nurse but they still graduated somehow. (keep in mind most of these students here probably at least 70% cheat on exams and assignments).

 

After graduation the nurses write a board exam. That is a national exam, I think normally held in Manila. Prior to the exam several of the larger universities will host a course review for a couple of months.

 

Some years back the govenment de-certified a large number of nursing programs because of poor rates of passing the national exam (given at various sites around the country). The ACSAT program stopped at about that time.