Unfair Isn’t It?
Category: Filipino Nurses, Nurses’ Careers, Striving Pinoy Nurses, Posted on March 15th, 2010 by adminNo Comments
Many people think that being a nurse would mean a luxurious life in the future; rest assured. But I guess that would only apply to nurses who have much money to finance the associated costs of realizing this “luxurious life in the future” thing. And to those who belong to the lower and middle class of the society, attaining this ”luxurious life” would only be a question of when.
Unfair isn’t it? The well-off nurses are the first ones to go abroad and taste the more idyllic kind of life whereas the poverty-stricken nurses who badly need those handsomely- paying jobs are still pathetically stranded here in our unproductive country. Talk about money making the world go round, student visa is considered as the most popular way being used by Filipino nurses to penetrate productive countries such as the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. But the placement and processing fees involve an unthinkably vast amount of money. An amount visible only to the bank accounts of the well-to-do. If you have the money, then might as well practice the British or Aussie twang; but if you don’t….. :-/