Professionalism- New Work: "Virtual Nurse On Call"
Sugar Scalpel
MBAH 10B Entrep
Nurses nowadays are plentiful and most of them find it hard to seek employment in our hospitals or clinics. This phenomenon has been the result of the previous nursing boom of the early part of the 21st century when the demand worldwide, especially in North America, the favorite destination of our nurses because of its better paying employers, far exceeded the available supply. As a result back then, the Philippines exerted tremendous efforts to increase our nursing course admissions and nursing schools to be able to produce more nurses to supply the ever increasing demands. It even forced a lot of already practicing physicians to take up nursing courses to be able to take that opportunity to work in the "land of milk and honey". Alas, the economy worldwide, most especially in North america, turned sour and took a downward course forcing many hospitals in North America to cut down on healthcare cost gravely affecting the employment of Filipino nurses in the United States. The glut of unemployed nurses in our country is the result of that economic downturn. So, what opportunity can we think of to help our many unemployed nurses who spent a lot of effort, time and money for their education only to languish in their unemployed state?
I propose to put up an NEA or Nurses Employment Agency all over the country and encourage all unemployed nurses to apply and be included in the pool of employable nurses. Once there is already a master list of the available nurses, the NEA will develop a website to be advertised in the media(print, TV, radio, online) all over the country. This website will serve as portal wherein any hospitals, clinics, hospice, nursing homes, homes for the aged, resorts or even homes in need of nurses to take care of a sick relative all over the country can request for a nurse or nurses on a 24/7 basis. For example, a big hospital in Quezon City experienced a sudden shortage of nurses for this certain day in the operating room due to absences and the increased demand on that day due to the unusually high number of scheduled operations that day, they will simply request online from the NEA and the NEA will provide the requested number of nurses with operating room experience and expertise to augment the needed nursing manpower for that day. The hospital will also pay online as the request is made based on the prevailing rates of nurses for that particular locality with a certain premium(depending on the time, i.e. with night differentials if it falls on 10pm to 6am shift, holidays and other labor mandated add ons). The NEA will then provide the requesting hospitals with the credentials of the nurses in advance via online (including the ID) that they will send for proper identification. The agency will then charge an additional 20% of the transaction fee as their cut or service fee. Another example is when you have a terminally ill relative in Cebu who is for discharge from a hospital and you worry about who will take care of them at home. All you need to do is go online again as already mentioned above and request for the needed nurse or nurses with experience in taking care of terminally ill patients to help you in taking care of your sick relative. In this way, you earn money for the agency as a business and at the same time help our nurses find meaningful employment wherever they may be, plus the added bonus of augmenting the staff of hospitals on a temporary basis anytime, helping us take care of sick relatives at home especially if we do not have the experience and many more benefits. 4
I propose to put up an NEA or Nurses Employment Agency all over the country and encourage all unemployed nurses to apply and be included in the pool of employable nurses. Once there is already a master list of the available nurses, the NEA will develop a website to be advertised in the media(print, TV, radio, online) all over the country. This website will serve as portal wherein any hospitals, clinics, hospice, nursing homes, homes for the aged, resorts or even homes in need of nurses to take care of a sick relative all over the country can request for a nurse or nurses on a 24/7 basis. For example, a big hospital in Quezon City experienced a sudden shortage of nurses for this certain day in the operating room due to absences and the increased demand on that day due to the unusually high number of scheduled operations that day, they will simply request online from the NEA and the NEA will provide the requested number of nurses with operating room experience and expertise to augment the needed nursing manpower for that day. The hospital will also pay online as the request is made based on the prevailing rates of nurses for that particular locality with a certain premium(depending on the time, i.e. with night differentials if it falls on 10pm to 6am shift, holidays and other labor mandated add ons). The NEA will then provide the requesting hospitals with the credentials of the nurses in advance via online (including the ID) that they will send for proper identification. The agency will then charge an additional 20% of the transaction fee as their cut or service fee. Another example is when you have a terminally ill relative in Cebu who is for discharge from a hospital and you worry about who will take care of them at home. All you need to do is go online again as already mentioned above and request for the needed nurse or nurses with experience in taking care of terminally ill patients to help you in taking care of your sick relative. In this way, you earn money for the agency as a business and at the same time help our nurses find meaningful employment wherever they may be, plus the added bonus of augmenting the staff of hospitals on a temporary basis anytime, helping us take care of sick relatives at home especially if we do not have the experience and many more benefits. 4
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