House to BAN Hospitals making Nurses PAY

[kazki]

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MANILA, Philippines - The House of Representatives has approved on second reading a bill prohibiting public and private hospitals from requiring cash payment from registered nurses who want to gain work experience.
House Bill 5445 seeks to prevent the exploitation of registered nurses who are serving as nurse volunteers in public or private hospitals.

The House committee on health chaired by Negros Occidental Rep. Alfredo Marañon III had endorsed the bill for plenary. It substituted House Bill 767 authored by Laguna Rep. Edgar San Luis.
“With the decline of demand for nurses in the United States and the United Kingdom, more nursing graduates end up unemployed while many of them shifted to work at call centers, retail stores and other non-professional positions. Those who are lucky enough to obtain employment abroad usually end up as caregivers, dental assistants and nursing aides,” San Luis said.

He said the lack of employment opportunities for nurses in the country makes them vulnerable to the unscrupulous practices of some hospitals that demand cash payment in exchange for the necessary work experience required for jobs abroad.

“This is plain and simple exploitation. No matter how the hospital administrators call the pernicious practice, whether it is training, skills building, volunteer work or whatever, it is unfair to the nurses and their parents who toiled hard and spent money just so their children will become nurses,” he said.
The bill penalizes violators with one year imprisonment and a fine of P500,000.

The measure mandates the Department of Health (DOH) and the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), Board of Nursing to assess all the training programs for registered nurses that are being implemented in hospitals.

The bill provides that only those programs accredited by the DOH and the PRC Board of Nursing shall be implemented and allowed to charge corresponding fees.
The bill further provides that any nurse volunteer who was required to pay the hospital shall be entitled to a refund of the full amount paid to the hospital plus interest of six percent per annum until said amount is fully paid.

In addition, a salary equivalent to Salary Grade 11 shall be paid by the hospital to the nurse-trainee for services rendered. - By Paolo Romero (Philstar News Service, Philippine News for the Filipino Global Community)

Source : House OKs bill banning hospitals from making nurses pay for training - Yahoo!

[peewee_toot]

ngek! dugay na mn gd ni pero wala mai action. ayaw na lang ta...

[Metz]

if ma ban, asa naman mangita ug experience ang sobra sobra nga nurse?
I guess maghulat nalang sa ila turn and most likely years after graduation pa if i-impliment ni.

[AlbertCruz]

sa call center :P

[bot_yok]

if ma ban, asa naman mangita ug experience ang sobra sobra nga nurse?
I guess maghulat nalang sa ila turn and most likely years after graduation pa if i-impliment ni.

di man unta ni mg sobra sobra ang mga nurses if na monitor lang unta ang ng enroll i mean like example Cebu Doctors Univ. if mu graduate ila mga nurses atleast naa chance maka work sa Cebu Doctors Hospital... kana gud mag bayad ka para maka experience lang mu result man gud na bati ang treatment (not all) sa mga patients kay ga apas raman sa Certificate, then okay rana ma impliment later atleast naa gi himo na action para ma stop ni... kapoi ah ikaw pa ni work, kasaba-an paka ug mga patients ikaw mag bayad.

[kazki]

I doubt that this will get implemented anyway.

There are too many Good Laws in our country and only a few get implemented (and this comes in a case-to-case basis).

[peewee_toot]

di man unta ni mg sobra sobra ang mga nurses if na monitor lang unta ang ng enroll i mean like example Cebu Doctors Univ. if mu graduate ila mga nurses atleast naa chance maka work sa Cebu Doctors Hospital... kana gud mag bayad ka para maka experience lang mu result man gud na bati ang treatment (not all) sa mga patients kay ga apas raman sa Certificate, then okay rana ma impliment later atleast naa gi himo na action para ma stop ni... kapoi ah ikaw pa ni work, kasaba-an paka ug mga patients ikaw mag bayad.

tinuod jud. ang ending, louy ang mga patients.

[delzy]

sa mga government hospitals ra cguro ni kutob....like sa sotto, wla namn cla nag accept trainees..gipa agi nalang nila as RNHEALS.....kng sa private hospitals, i doubt kung matuman ni

[peewee_toot]

^^sakto jud. maygani ang mga public hospitals rn ky dili na magpa bayad.

ambot lang jud aning mga private hospitals. gaba-an ra jud mo kadugayan...

[nihao]

pakita lang sa walay klaro nga regulatory function sa mga government institutions like DOLE, PRC, apil na nang PNA, kay wala silay gihimo pag protect sa mga nursing professionals nga dili mahimong alaot, while allowing nursing schools to just crop up anywhere and anytime they want.... apil sab sa walay klaro nang Comm on Higher Education...