The Crame Nursing Experience

I've had blast at the PNP General Hospital. Like I wrote in my evaluation of our experience, there were some bad but mostly good things that happened to me there. The bad part were mostly due to the fact that my daughter had gotten sick during my rotation. But the good part were the relationships that I had established, the learning that was derived from the exposure and the fun things that I and my group along with my other batchmates had done.



The thing that I liked most in that experience was the exposure at the dialysis center of the hospital. It was like no other as that area is highly specialized. But to us, it was just part of our rotation. God bless Capt. Michelle Ferrer or Mam Ferrer to us volunteer nurses who stuck it out with us despite our booboos. Thanks Mam!


Kudos to my groupmates Chad Francia, Maricris Sy, Luz Torres and Benj de Vera who had been so supportive and understanding. Thanks guys!



Generally, the staff and administration personnel of the Police hospital are kind and ready to help. I specially would like to mention Sir Paolo and Col. Gandia of the Dialysis center, Mam Edith of the Male Surgical Ward, and Mam Merle of the Ortho Section who were extra helpful to us. Thank you all.

My First Day on the Job

Not actually on the job because I'm not getting paid. As a nurse in the Philippines, I hadn't had much success at getting an opportunity to get a job nor get training in the hospitals. Not until today, that is. Today was different. Today, I got my first taste of the hospital setting as a registered nurse and trainee.

The hospital at Camp Crame is not new to me. We've had our rotation there when I was in nursing school. But, I found out this afternoon that the hospital is really large and there were several other areas which we had not been able to go to. 7 out of the 58 nurses that were enlisted. I thought it wasn't such a huge number but when you realize that there would be at least 4 of us in an area sharing it with at least 10 student nurses, 51 would really be a crowd.

Anyway, I got a little excited today too. We had been told that after our 3-month training, we could actually request to join the EMS training there too. I'd been wanting to take it but the training is too expensive elsewhere. Well, let's see if I can stand the 3 months at the PNPGH.

SeaMed Review Center

I've just recently taken the nursing board exam. It was not quite easy but not quite hard either. Although I can't say I studied hard for it, it was a good thing I studied on burns, perioperative techniques, and emergency nursing. The nursing board are really trying to be sure that when an emergency situation comes, the pinoy nurse will know what to do.

For those who would be taking the philippine board, I'd like to recommend the SeaMed Review Center. Sir Mark Asuncion (he's kwenek to us reviewees), Dr. Malvar, Sir Laboy and Sir Villegas are the best reviewers. The downside is that the review takes only 4 hours but those 4 hours are really worth it. The rationale is that you will take home the tests so you can answer and study them and they will give you the same test the following day which you can do at a faster rate because you're already familiar with it. Makes sense. They have a computer room where you can review too until 5 pm. In case you don't want to go through the trouble of lining up at the PRC, you can ask them to file your application for the NLE with them for a fee. I paid 1,500 php. Don't worry, they're legit. If you want to go to PRC yourself, that's fine too.

By the way, SeaMed is located at 867 G. Tolentino St. Sampaloc, Manila. tel # 735-2579. It is just actually almost at the corner of Tolentino and Quezon Boulevard, just about 2 corners before reaching the corner of PRC. They are next door neighbors of Pentagon and Carl Balita's Review Center.