The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) mentioned Thursday it’ll talk about with the state universities and schools (SUCs) providing nursing applications the attainable implementation of a return service program to handle the scarcity of nurses within the Philippines.
CHED chairman Prospero de Vera III made the comment after President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. instructed fee to handle the nation’s scarcity on the variety of nurses as a result of migration which has been affecting the native supply of healthcare companies.
“The return service can be imposed especially in schools with government subsidies. Because if the government pays for their education, the government can attach certain provisions to their subsidy,” De Vera mentioned at a press convention.
“We will discuss with the state universities and colleges a possible, in terms of this program for nurses, because their tuition and miscellaneous are paid by government. We can also provide scholarships to nursing students or additional stipends to nursing students and miscellaneous and attach a return service to that. That one can be done,” he added.
As for personal colleges, De Vera mentioned it is likely to be tough to implement such contemplating that they aren’t sponsored by the federal government, until they’ve a scholarship program for nursing college students.
He talked about the Doktor Para sa Bayan Act which grants scholarships to poor however deserving Filipino college students in medical colleges and gives them with free required textbooks, uniform, and residing allowances, amongst others.
After graduating and passing the licensure examinations for physicians, the scholar should fulfill the obligatory return service settlement by serving his hometown or any underserved municipality decided by the Department of Health as a precedence space—one yr for yearly that the scholarship has been availed of.
Otherwise, the physician-scholar will probably be required to pay twice the total value of the scholarship, together with different advantages and associated bills.
During the Private Sector Advisory Council (PSAC) Healthcare Sector group assembly on Wednesday, Marcos mentioned the federal government needs to be intelligent in regards to the healthcare manpower because the nation produces the perfect nurses.
Citing the Department of Health’s (DOH) 2022 knowledge, De Vera mentioned that 51.2% of 617,898 Filipino nurses licensed to apply served as migrant well being staff.
He, nonetheless, defined that CHED has already carried out interventions that can handle the scarcity on nurses, together with retooling board non-passers, adopting nursing curriculum with exit credentials, redirecting non-practicing nurses, conducting trade applications with different international locations, and upskilling and reskilling future nurses.
The company can be engaged on versatile short-term masteral applications to handle the dearth of instructors in nursing and medical colleges.
Asked whether or not it’s justifiable for international locations to rent a bulk of Filipino healthcare staff, De Vera mentioned that it’s inevitable for that to occur contemplating that the nation’s nurses and medical doctors are world class.
“Our curriculum satisfies the standards of countries abroad. Our graduates pass the necessary licensure test. In a sense you can say that it is inevitable to produce world class nurses and doctors and therefore the obstacles that they have to surmount to practice are actually less than in other professions. We can also say that we should be proud of our graduates,” he mentioned.—AOL, GMA Integrated News
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