"Nursing is becoming more ambitious.."
I remember saying that line to my nurse supervisor.
The problem with the Nursing Profession is that, it has become, and continuously becoming, a very ambitious profession wherein the production of competent and highly skilled professionals can no longer be sustained due to the continuous growth of the scope of nursing practice. Furthermore, the line separating the medical and nursing practice (e.a. invasive procedures) have grown transparent and thin over the years.
Though the nursing association never fails to provide regular seminars for updates and continuing education, most of it has corresponding (and should I say) expensive fees. In a world where there is a surplus of nursing professionals, new graduates, both unemployed, underemployed and even employed mostly can not afford to maintain such educations for competence and knowledge growth. These seminars and updates could be used by nursing professionals who graduated few years back as an edge in acquiring job positions in the health field. But because of financial factors that is limiting professional growth, these flocks of professionals became stagnant and scattered in different fields not related to their chosen career path.
Then it becomes a cycle. The unemployed can't be employed due to incompetence that could be aided with regular updates and seminars, which can't be easily availed because of it's expensive fees. Even those qualified nurses who's already working in an institution can't totally say that they're already competent and well-skilled because of the growing scope of the practice.
The Nursing Profession already became a big money business starting from its education, to pre-boards, to it's hospital deployment. And the best way to stop this money monopoly could possibly be traced on the roots of adequate compensations. May the institutions/hospitals provide, if not for free, somehow at least cheaper programs for continuing nursing education. The help that some of us were looking for in this career path starts on the people that have chosen the profession and who built it from with in. Let us start eradicating the crabmentality between nursing professionals.
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The problem with the Nursing Profession is that, it has become, and continuously becoming, a very ambitious profession wherein the production of competent and highly skilled professionals can no longer be sustained due to the continuous growth of the scope of nursing practice. Furthermore, the line separating the medical and nursing practice (e.a. invasive procedures) have grown transparent and thin over the years.