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With perseverance, he passed the screening procedure of the said hospital and was accepted as a

Trainee in its surgical ward for a period of three months as hospital policy applies.
From the start, the term Trainee has been such an ambiguous term in the nursing workforce.
According to an online dictionary, the word training means the acquisition of knowledge,
skills and competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills and knowledge
that relate to specific useful competencies.
Simply put, being a trainee means to be trained by a person or a certain training body and
passing all the time-honed skills- clinical- to them. The clinical skills are such skills like
administering injections to patients, reading ECG strips, administering therapeutic and lifesaving maneuvers to patients, etc
Perhaps the biggest irony with the usage of the term is that Trainees from government hospitals
are left on their own to capture and hone the skills they are seeking on the first place. Worse, the
trainees teach the staff medical stuff. As a matter of fact, these trainees do not receive training
manuals and learning materials to learn from. There is also no concrete training curriculum that
most hospitals may use to achieve its goal of training the new-breed nurses.
Whats even more tormenting in the life of trainees is that most of the time, they are being taken
advantage by the staff nurses assigned to train them.
Ebajay shares: Sa amu ward, naay 35-45 patients. Pero two to three ra ang staff nurses. Then
four to five ang trainees. Most of the time, pasagdan ra mi sa staff. Kami trabaho tanan gikan sa
pag trapo, pag alsa, pag hatag sa tambal ug pag chart sa patient. Pati pangasaba sa doctor pag
masayop mi, amua ra pud. Usahay, dili na mi maka kaon sa ka daghan sa trabaho gina tambak sa
amua. To think, sila ang gina sweldohan, dili kami.
During duties, trainees assume the role of a regular employed staff nurse only they are not given
voice during decision-making. Its sardonic enough to think trainees do and know more than the
staff, they spend more time with the patient yet they are not given the opportunity to exercise
their autonomy in decision-making. They are treated more like students. Worse, like assistants to
the staff doing all the dirty work for them while all the credits go to the staff. This is an
obvious case of an exploitation, no less.
Meanwhile, Dr. Jose Chan, hospital chief of Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC),
believes otherwise.
For him, the purpose of nurse volunteerism is to train nurses and give them hands-on clinical
experiences.
Dr. Chan believes that a four-year bachelors degree and a license in nursing are insufficient to
equip a nurse with all the clinical competencies to assume full responsibilities in patient care.

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