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Nursing Education Update: Nursing Education the Philippines will never be the same again.  Nursing, as a course in college, may no longer be as attractive as before starting this school year. In my post “New Philippine Nursing Curriculum and Opposing Views”, the Philippine Nursing Curriculum has dramatically changed since the Commission on Higher Education’s issuance [...]

Addicted to cell phones or texting? Think again before pushing those buttons. Reports indicate that texting while doing something else like walking on the streets, biking and other activities can cause injury or even fatalities. As they say, don’t do two things at the same time to prevent accidents and injuries. Focus is the key [...]

The Nursing Board Exam Results for June 2008 are in.  The results were released on June 23, 2008 but I was not really in the mood to write about it.  It’s only when some of my colleagues requested me to get a copy of the complete list of board passers that I got into the [...]

My wife and I were discussing Nursing trends and issues last night and one of the topics we dealt with was the oversupply of nurses in the Philippines. The discussion was prompted by her batchmates in college comlaining about the difficulty of finding job opportunities for nurses or nursing graduates. This was no longer a [...]

If you are a heavy cell phone (or cellphone) user, you might want to curb your addiction to cell phones especially if you’re using it mainly for calling and texting is only secondary.  Cell phone use is inevitable in modern societies, I admit.  We use them everyday to call the office, our loved ones, our [...]

Here is a good topic for Nursing research. This is just a recommendation and the study does not apply to everyone and may not be conducted everywhere due to some constraints. One of the Nursing researches I have handled in Ilocos Norte is on homosexuality. A group of undergraduate students asked me for a good [...]

Drug addiction or substance abuse is not only a problem here in the Philippines. It is a threat to everyone everywhere. It does not only destroy the capability of the drug dependent to think clearly. It also strips him of his morality. Statistics of drug dependents or addicts in the Philippines in 2006 has reached [...]

I was scanning my wife’s notes and going through other stuff when an old note that is “A Nurse’s Prayer” caught my attention. This is a standard prayer supposedly “recited or murmured” by nurses whenever they start their work. In the Philippines, I doubt if any nurse prays before working. I also doubt if any [...]

What is your opinion on the New Nursing Curriculum in the Philippines? This is a relatively new issue in the academic sector of our country. Why? Many Pinoys take up BS Nursing because of its promising future (that is, if you have the luck and opportunity to land a good job abroad). According to reports, [...]

As a Nursing Researcher, I have always been conscious about health.  Some of my past studies dealt with heart attacks, hypertension, diabetes and nursing education.  I’m happy to share this new finding with you dear readers.  It has something to do with the difference between heart attack symptoms between men and women.  It has been [...]

I was watching a DVD on medicine a while ago with a friend and I felt this sudden interest in the topic Vitamin C deficiency.  This was quite common in many poor countries like the Philippines, India and Africa.  However, lesser and lesser incidence of the disease is observed these days.  When I was growing [...]

I am astigmatic. That’s the reason why I can’t stay long infront of my computer. It’s just that I can no longer stay away from it since I am a full-time geek. I’m sure some of you are astigmatic too. But what are the forms of astigmatism?