I was surprised to learn from Dr. Carmelita Divinagracia that the country has 674 schools offering BSN programs, 49 for masteral level (MAN, MSN, MN) and 3 for doctorate (University of the Philippines College of Nursing, St. Paul University Tuguegarao and Silliman University).
Indeed, this is pretty amazing statistics.
I am tempted to calculate that this industry now has a population of close to half a million nursing students; about 9,000 clinical instructors; more than 65,000 graduates per year.
In fact, I was also told that these figures may even go up if not for the intervention of ADPCN since locally-owned universities and colleges are planning to set up nursing schools.
Imagine the trend if this scenario will continue.
Will it be safe to say that our country is still producing globally competitive nurses judging from the past three NLEX results where even the prominent nursing schools have been performing poorly?
What kind of nursing education does our student get when the so-called clinical instructors have no sound background on clinical practice?
What are we to think of the open-admission policy of many nursing schools? Are they attracting the lousy individuals for the BSN programme?
What about the masteral programme now proliferating in various provinces offering non-thesis option? Is the MN title already enough to justify a professional competency?
Now that the US is temporarily closing its doors to Filipino nurses, where are our nurses going?
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