Help 50 students Continue Nursing Education

The Commission on Higher Education has already issued its memorandum that all educational insitutions in the Philippines are now allowed to hold face to face classes. After COVID-19 has extremely made a serious disruption worldwide especially in the field of education,  there is now a need for more healthcare professionals which has led to the surge of the nursing program.  We are all aware that a nurse's primary duty is to provide hospital patient care.  

The experience of a global pandemic has inspired many to make a significant change in their lives that could make a difference to countless of other lives.  The applications for the nursing program afe exceedingly competitive with requirements of high grades, being waitlisted, getting denied, the complexities of entrance examinations, captivating essays and even strong recommendations from previous professors in the field.

The university has experienced severe cuts in state funding, tuition, grant funding, revenue resources.  Students were not exempted from the demand for financial resources like the demand for food, housing and technology due to the shift in the educational paradigm turning the learning process all online.

Today, that enrolment for the nursing program has staggeringly increased, the university's dilemna is finding a bigger space to be able to accommodate all applications most especially of the university's goal to give opporunities to the financially challenged but intellectually gifted.

To be able to realize this dream for these students, the university has given up its dormitory to be converted into classrooms for the nursing program.  The challenge is the funding for its renovation which GlobalGiving donors have been a part of.  Donations now are being used to renovate the rooms into classrooms so we may be able to accommodate all applications most especially giving a chance to those whose families experienced financial hardships through the pandemic which has also led to the loss of tuition funding.

The Commission on Higher Education and the Department of Education has given the green light to gradually resume face-to-face classes under strict pandemic protocols although flexible learning is much more apporiate and safe at this time but delivery is very necessary in skills laboratory which plays a very important role in improving and developing the student nurse before exposing them to the real setting.

The College of Nursing has prepared for this mandate and is currently holding specialized laboratory courses and hospital based clinical practicum and rotation.  Part of the implementation is the adherence to basic protocols set by the Department of Health.

The Nursing Program of the university aims to provide additional manpower support in the global health system which is a priority at this time of pandemic and is evident by the large number of enrolment into this program.