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Itching to get the June 2008 Philippine Nurse Licensure Examination result? Not sure when the result would come out? Daunted by some text hoax about the passing percentage rate of only 20%? Here’s what the BON said:
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My hospital training at Davao Regional Hospital will end this Friday, and I am really looking forward to that. So today, as the president of all the trainees of this batch, I called for a meeting of us all officers, to lay out the plans for the upcoming graduation.

In six day’s time, my hospital training will be officially over, and I am wondering what I will do after. During the initial runnings of my training, I really wished that the training time would be longer. But now, forget it. We are getting closer to its end. I will be submitting applications to some nursing schools after and the local hospitals too. I want to work as a clinical instructor. The sad thing, though, is that most schools will only hire a nurse for a clinical instructor those with at least a year of hospital exposure. By that, I want to work in a hospital for a year first. But what an agony; hospitals here don’t pay much. And a year is somewhat too long. The longer is not the better.

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Finally, my official board rating from the Professional Regulation Commision (PRC) has arrived last Thursday. Although I have already known my rating the day I filed for the acquisition of it, approximately four months ago, it still is different to have the official rate at last. The sad thing about Philippine government processes, though, is that it is really, really slow. That is why the progress of the country is also slow. Sigh.

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The result of the Philippine Nurse Licensure Examination last December 2007 came out February 21 and my happiness cannot be contained seeing my name on the list. I was also the one who informed my batch about who passed among them, as on that day I was really watching out on the net what time the result would come out, refreshing the page every minute to see if the source had already been updated with the result.

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Growing older, not just by mere age but also to the point of deteriorating physical function, is what many people fear to come to. This is because to become an elderly often means to be a hassle to the younger ones you have. And for this fact, in America, the elderly most likely placement is to admit to a nursing home.

Filipinos, however, are in a way different. Because of strong family ties and belongingness, the elderly are taken cared of at home as if they still were very normal. There is only small percentage of the elder Filipinos sent to a nursing home, or home for the aged as it is commonly called in the place.

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my own design

After having known that I am one of those 100 trainees qualified for the hospital training, it occurred to me immediately that since the duty days are from Monday to Friday, I should get me a new pair of nursing uniform. I had two when I was still a student nurse, and had another one, our gala uniform, when he had our Pinning Ceremony (professional pin). So all in all I had three, but then I rather was disgusted of the thought of wearing my two old uniforms, as I will look like a student with it, as the design is almost always what male student nurses wear now–that white uppers with buttons on the side. Ew, I really hate that design.

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