BBN
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The main reason is to get into US by taking a nurse job. Foreign doctors are not in demand to work in the US, so they have to come in first with credentials as nurses. Indirectly these professionals want to migrate in US |
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Yak Rider
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Wrong. My wife's aunt was a physician in Cebu for 15 years. She went back to school, got her nursing degree, and emigrated to the United States. She said passing the NCLEX-RN in the USA was NOT easy.
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Crybaby Bob
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Nursing is a different skill set. Doctors manage treatment and nurses manage patients. |
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luosechi 駱士基
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Because they have to pass a government nursing test. Nurses' skills are a bit different than doctors' skills. |
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Iris
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You have to understand that doctors diagnose diseases and nurses give patient care. Doctors dont know the proper way to clean a patient when they have bed sores. Although doctors know how to treat them it doesnt mean they know proper care. Doctors dont even know how to operate iv machines, vents, cpap, bipap machines. They can give orders on how much O2(vents) the patient needs, drops of medication via iv, orders for the settings of bipap/cpap but they dont know how to operate these machines. Also when giving proper care to a patient there are techniques you have to know in able to avoid mistakes, injuries etc. Those are not doctors job. They make the diagnoses, they treat the patient but the nurses do the monitoring and patient care thats why its called nurse.
I actually met a doctor who was calling for help because the ventilator alarm went off and he didnt know how to turn it off lol. Funny,,, |
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annabelle p
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Because the medical course does not include lessons and training on how to be a nurse - how to take care of patients, how to be healthcare givers. |
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CT Zen
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Some might -but I would say the majority do not know what a nurse does. Sounds retarded, but true. It would also depend on the type of doctor he was. A dermatologist - no, probably not. Surgeon - maybe yes. A nurse needs a degree also - a nursing degree. The doctor might get straight As in the nursing classes but he still needs that degree. |
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Johny
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You would think that but no. Nurses and doctors do alot of different things for example nurses frequently check up on patients where these days doctors just make a diagnosis and thats the last time they see that patient. Especially in public hospitals. If your refering to doctors going overseas to work as nurses they will need to qualify in the country's licencing as their training may not be recognised internationally. |
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sagotko
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cause some doctors prioritize how much they earn financially |
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Gie K
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The market for nurses are sky high overseas. |
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warrior is a child
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its the license that matters. a doctor though better than nurses should still have to have a nursing liscense needed for them to easily land a job abroad. |
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balagoong
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doctoring is making patients well by giving medicines. nursing is making patients well by tender love and care. not all doctors will make good nurses but most good nurses will make excellent doctors. |
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Juan C
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nurses are more needed abroad than doctors... |
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Jemay
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You have to be a Registered Nurse to work as Nurse. Doctors in the Philippines usually take a course in Nursing with lesser years of
schooling, because some of their MD units are credited. Most of Nursing subjects are exclusively for Nurses, so it would take more than 2 years for a Doctor to finish become a Nurse. Philippine graduate Doctors cannot Practice Medicine in the US, so they enter the US as Nurses, work as Nurses and study at US Medical school then apply for US Medical Practitioner.
The Philippines is making a law that will disallow Doctors from taking up Nursing to hamper the lack of Doctors in our country. |
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SMELLY CAT!
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That's because in nursing you have a chance to travel abroad. Not all doctors took nursing as their pre-med course. |
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pinoy ako
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nursing subjects are very different from subjects and training that medical doctors undergo. doctors may know what the nurse is suppose to do but he doesnt know how to do it right. he need to re-train. |
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sw33tazn28
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I don't think they have to take up nursing as a course. My cousin was a doctor in the Philippines, when she came here to the US to work as a nurse, all she did was to review for the NCLEX and pass it to work as a nurse. She didn't go to school for nursing or take nursing classes at all. |
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Shae G
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Nurses have to learn the same thing doctors learn in a short period of time. Nursing school is extremely demanding, and you have to be on your toes with nursing as apposed to being and actual doctor. True enough they get paid more but Nurses are around the clock in the hospital, however in a hospital there will be like 2 major doctors seeing almost every patient, and every other doctor is on call for his specialty. That's why it take so long when you have a doctors appointment or when you go into an emergency room. A lot of the times when you go for your woman's exam it's the Nurse Practitioner, which is also like the doctor. They want the doctors to be on their feet and move quicker as well as more swifter with less mistakes like Nurses, that's why they take Nursing classes. |
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a745
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In the US, Nurses' salaries are quite high. Doctors have high salary there too, but you can't expect the US to easily accept medicine graduates coming from our country. Doctors graduating from here have two choices, either they take up nursing instead to be accepted easily, or try to study medicine in the US, not here.
Of course, there are other countries who'd accept Philippine doctors for a reasonable salary. I don't see why so many of them are blind to that. |
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jamiehappy97
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there are some things doctors don't know. okay? |
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tiger of the pacific
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i understand,, and didn't understand your point and sense. however i will try and reason for it, first we go to the first point, he/she a doctor, a doctor, a real doctor or seminarist?
for general; doctors doesn't take nursing on the first place unless you shift your course being a nurse to medicine, but what kind of doctor you want to express, medicine, law, technology, commerce, or etc.
if you want to say medicine, in europe a doctor is a doctor, though they already had the formation before becoming a medicine doctor so we call them generalist doctor.for general doctors learn before becoming a doctor stages of medicine so they know some steps of nurses work, but not on the sense of being a maid of the hospital. it's not the same sense. nurses in europe are the domestics in hospitals they do the dirtiest work can ever exist in the hospital that doctors don't do. they were called nurses because they take care of the patients like taking care people in private though instead of calling them hospital domestics they were called that way it's more glamorous otherwise it's not different to those private maids in houses.
back to the topic, in the medical sector it's the same in the army, you start from the first step: private, sergeant leutenant ,major,colonel,general, then, admiral. the same system in all domains. the thing is when a doctor graduated doctor he is not a nurse though he has the knowledge of. |
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yuanyuan
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In a way, I agree with you. But anyway, I think the doctor who'll take up nursing need only a few subjects to complete in order to graduate. Am not sure, though. |
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jd
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Sure they just have no idea how to do it. Besides with that much education they should be able to do better. |
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Ω allan y
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because the resident midget in malakanyang was not able to improve the economy after in office for more than 8 years. |
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Sex Gun
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no nurse want to do nursing in local hopsital, their pay is so low, these nurses rather to aboard to work. |
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Jim B
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BECAUSE NURSES ARE MORE INTELLIGENT THAN MOST DOCTORS. LOL |
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