Blog Posts on nurses

Interesting Facts That Nursing Schools Won’t Tell You… by Filipino Nurses on Feb 8, 2012I was once asked to speak at an orientation for freshmen Nursing students, and the anxiety in the room (not coming from me for a change) was palpable – these kids were really eager to hear the trade secrets of surviving Nursing school. These tips w...

Top 5 Things A Nurse Should Never Say To Her Patients by Filipino Nurses on Feb 7, 2012Communication is one of the vital tools that nurses use to reach out and connect to their patients. Depending on how nurses use it, it could either make or break the bridge which they are trying to build to establish rapport with their patients. Perh...

Top 5 Things A Nurse Should Never Say To Her Patients by Nars A. Ko on Feb 7, 2012Communication is one of the vital tools that nurses use to reach out and connect to their patients. Depending on how nurses use it, it could either make or break the bridge which they are trying to build to establish rapport with their patients. Perh...

Ministry to hire graduate nurses – Malaysia Star by Nursing Philippines Blog on Feb 6, 2012Ministry to hire graduate nursesMalaysia StarBy JOSEPH SIPALAN PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry is working on creating vacancies at government hospitals to absorb the large number of unemployed graduate nurses. “We are working on a programme to promo...

The Day I Met “TOL” by Filipino Nurses on Feb 6, 2012As I compress the chest of a 22 y.o. male who went into a flat line, his wife (yup, he already got a family) didn't stop from calling him with their usual term of endearment..."TOL".. "Tol, lumaban ka, kaya mo yan. Wag mo kaming iwan" she was whispe...

Nurses: Complex Beings by Filipino Nurses on Feb 5, 2012Nurses are the most complex beings on the earth...You ask me why? I can give you plenty of reasons but here are the top reasons why I love being a nurse: 1. We nurses are middle men...we serve as communication lines between the doctor and the patie...

Nurses call for end to pay dispute – ABC Online by Nursing Philippines Blog on Feb 2, 2012Nurses call for end to pay disputeABC OnlineThe Victorian nurses' dispute returns to Fair Work Australia today for the first time since nurses started a television campaign defending nurse-patient ratios. The stand-off over pay and conditions beg...

Top 7 Craziest Medical Myths As Seen On T.V. by Nars A. Ko on Feb 1, 2012Truth is stranger than fiction but when it comes to facts presented on TV dramas, it’s the other way around. And if you think that  mind-boggling and eyebrow-raising medical (or fictional) phenomena can only be seen on foreign medical TV drama...

Keeping the Faith, Keeping the Passion by Filipino Nurses on Feb 1, 2012Achievement. This has always been and I think what would forever concern me. Achievements in my lifetime, that is. This got me into looking at things and people retrospectively. I remember some people in their senior year in high school when I was...

Top 7 Craziest Medical Myths As Seen On T.V. by Filipino Nurses on Feb 1, 2012Truth is stranger than fiction but when it comes to facts presented on TV dramas, it's the other way around. And if you think that  mind-boggling and eyebrow-raising medical (or fictional) phenomena can only be seen on foreign medical TV dramas like...