A Descriptive Research on the Status of Employability of Nurses in Private Hospitals

Abstract

This research investigated the employability of nurses in private hospitals in Meycauayan City, Bulacan. According to the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA), there are 200,000 unemployed nurses in the Philippines, due to working preferences in urbanized areas with higher compensation (Alliance of Heath workers, 2015). With this, the researchers conducted the study on factors affecting employability of the nurses, such as the hospital's standards in terms of job experience, vacancy, and considerations in applying to the jobs. Such research was conducted for the benefit of the nurses and private hospitals in the locality. The researchers utilised binary scale and the semantic differential scale given to the 20 private hospital nurses. The data was analysed using inferential statistics resulting to most nurses' application process difficult, hiring newly graduate given no fixed term contract. In addition, most hospitals are understaffed considering the ratio of the nurses lesser than the bed capacity of the hospital, and with two consecutive shifts a day leading to finding new workplace right after their contract ends. Moreover, this leads to the increased number of contractual nurses despite the demands in most hospitals.