June 30, 2006
Boom in the Nursing profession (Editorial)
WITH THE DESIRE to land on lucrative jobs abroad, many students nowadays prefer to take up Nursing course. Indeed, if a survey among fourth year high school students is randomly conducted on the spot as to what course they plan to take in college, results can be well predicted that almost half of them would pick Nursing as their choice.
In view of this ‘boom’ in the Nursing Course, schools all over the country have jumped into the playing field, taking advantage of the demand at hand. Thus the rise also of schools offering this much in demand course - even hospitals have notably opened their own schools for Nursing.
The more the merrier, so to speak. But the apprehension on the quality of education and instruction surfaces. For the interest of profit, Schools for Nursing will naturally invite and admit as many enrollees as they can. But with a big number of enrollees, are these schools still able to provide competitive standard of instruction?
Come to think of it, Nursing is one of the most expensive courses. Would that the students be given their money’s worth.
