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Toxicity - the most common word you’d likely to hear from all nursing students when you’d asked them how life is to be a nursing student. Case studies here and there, nosebleed exams, and balancing between duty schedules and getting ready for class, and most of all: here in the Philippines.

Nurses from the Philippines are known world-wide for their hard-work and their so-called “TLC”, meaning Tender Loving Care. I can say that these traits are found and manifested in every single Filipino nurse.

The way of becoming a nurse isn’t an easy one. There are sleepless nights of studying, dozens and dozens of cups of coffee just to keep you awake, and while you’re finished with getting your lessons in your head, there comes the hospital duty. What a life. You get tear-down eye bags and the feeling of sleeping for a week.

Many people have asked me: “Why the hell did you take up nursing?!”, and I told them it’s what I like; It’s what I always wanted to be, to become a nurse, to help and care for others when they are sick. It is not about the money we earn, but the quality of service we provide. I am proud that I took up nursing, and I never regretted it. I also got some skills and knowledge on computers and Bachelor of Science in Information Technology ranked second as my priority course to be taken up, but nursing won the debate.

It’s a long time to take up nursing here in the Philippines. They offer it here as an undergraduate course with four and a half years to complete, well, here at the school where I’m studying at least. Some schools and collages offer it with 4 years to complete.

After that, you still need to take up the board exams to become one truly registered nurse. And I tell you, the board exams here have been much more become difficult because of the issue with that leakage during the past board exams.

Love your work, and your work will learn to love you.

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