As one of the developing countries in Southeast Asia, the Philippine health care system and facilities are generally thought of as underdeveloped themselves. With this kind of perception, the Philippine health care system is deemed to be unreliable. Doctors in the Philippines do not enjoy the same level of high credibility as compared to those who come from medically-complacent countries like the United States of America and India. The nurses in the Philippines, however, have found their name to give credit to their country for producing such a wide population to supply nations all over the world for the quality service nurses from the Philippines can give.
At the turning point of the decade, however, it has been apparent how the Philippines have been moving up in the advance technological ladder of status. The Philippines today have proved itself as a favorable spot for both domestic and international health seekers. It has been found by Ledesma how the Philippines has risen to the levels of the more developed countries in being able to supply clients from cross-country and worldwide competition-worthy services through excellent facilities and medical attention at costs infinitely more affordable[1].
With a thriving heath care sector, the Philippines have been able to move further into the 21st century and improve on supplementary hospital technologies. This revolution of hospital technology now has given leave for a new issue to arise in the fields of work concerned. One must take into consideration the past experiences of these institutions. In order to achieve the right footing in perspective, the past must be taken into account. Before the revolution of acquisition of new medical technologies, one must remember that older and less state of the art technologies were the norm of hospital processes.
Nurses and medical technicians in hospitals from the Philippines were used to akin do with equipment that may not exactly be up to par with the world’s conditions before. Their training may be assumed to have been in consideration of this situation. This would simply be apparent affording regards to the fact that these nurses would be using those kinds of under-developed and substandard equipments. This, of course, would delegate them to skills which are more suited to these kinds of equipments. Another factor in this issue would result to the fact that the population demographics of the nurses we are talking about would most usually represent nurses who have been serving the country as newly trained graduates. The demographics would represent young nurses who are fully equipped on taking on both under-developed and revolutionized technical assistance through machines.
Since these nurses greatly benefit from these technical innovations, they do not find it difficult to cope with. These technological advances were made to help the nurses with their duties and make it easier for them. These innovations actually serve as incentives for these nurses as it helps them in their tasks. A singular problem may lie in the nurses’ possible inability to cope with these advancements by way of their lack in expertise or background in the usage of these machines. However, nothing cannot be solved by plain old training and practice.
As the Philippines movies forward in the realm of advanced medical practitioners and technological machines, its personnel are challenged to cope and do the same. One might see the issue in two sides: one, whether they would not be able to cope and stick to what they already know how to do, since that is what they are used to and comfortable with, or two, whether they would see these technological advancements as something to be thankful for since it gives the country confidence in the services which they offer and take it as a challenge to make themselves better to cope with the changing world. One would actually lean on how these nurses would take the second scenario as more favorable, since this world is truly changing for the better. This would hopefully provide the country with better equipment and better nurses in order to cater to the needs of not only its nationals, but also other from foreign countries.
References
Ledesma, J. 1992, The status of medical technology and the healthcare system in the Philippines, Pacific Medical Technology Symposium, Hawaii
[1] Ledesma, J. 1992, The status of medical technology and the healthcare system in the Philippines, Pacific Medical Technology Symposium, Hawaii
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