Project entrepre nurse
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This initiative aims to address public health needs in poor rural communities through nurse entrepreneurship. Nurses will form cooperatives to manage clinics and deploy to areas lacking healthcare. This will reduce healthcare costs, maximize nurse employment, and utilize human resources to achieve health objectives. Several government agencies and organizations will support the nurses through training, funding, and promoting their services to achieve the public health goals.
Project entrepre nurse
- 1. TESTIMONIALS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED TO JOIN A NURSE COOP OR FORM ONE, CONTACT US FOR HELP: 1. “EntrepreNurse hopes to address public health needs for nursing services DOLE 11 Regional Office and at the same time create a testing alternative model for the nurses to LDL Bldg., F. Bangoy St., Davao City remuneration outside their traditional mode of employment. This project will Tel No. (082) 227-4289, 226-2481 push the boundaries of nursing practice in the Philippines.” Cel. No. 09219027178 - Dr. Josefina Tuazon, UPCN e-mail: [email protected] website: www.dole11.net 2. “We foresee that the impact of this initiative will be in the public health realm, in addressing the many health concerns of poor, rural communities.” INTRODUCING THE CON - Usec. Carmelita Pineda, DOLE Focal Person Project NARS & Project EntrepreNurse Davao City EntrepreNurse Health Care Cooperative Marina Ledesma, Chairman NURSE ENTREPRENEURS Cel. No. 09177043431 AMONG UNEMPLOYED N 3. “Nurses will not remain employees all throughout their career life, so they e-mail: [email protected] must bear the challenges of the economic situation. This initiative will change TO ACHIEVE PUBLIC the face of nursing in the country.” Davao Oriental EntrepreNurse Health Care Services - Mr. Marco Antonio Santo Tomas, BON-PRC Geofford Montejo, Chairman HEALTH OBJECTIVES Cel. No.: 09212703091 4. “I would like to manifest to all of you that Davao Oriental is giving on all out e-mail : [email protected] support for this initiative.” - Gov. Corazon Malanyaon, Davao Oriental Davao del Sur Health Care Services Cooperative Jessamine Dela Peña, Chairman 5. “This project is going to be able to serve not just our personal and professional needs but also the needs of our countrymen who need our Cel. No. 09285213498 services.” e-mail: [email protected] - Sec. Esperanza I. Cabral, DOH DavNor EntrepreNurse Service Cooperative 6. “Each of you will be proud to say, that this project was conceived, was Paul John Gabayan, Chairman developed, and was born here in Davao City.” Cel. No.: 09202606917 - Sec. Marianito D. Roque, DOLE e-mail : [email protected] Comval Nurses Health Care Services Cooperative Elizar Bulac, Chairman WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP? Cel. No. 09283539966 e-mail: [email protected] 1. SEND two or three or a hundred nurses for six OR CONTACT YOUR NEAREST DOLE REGIONAL OFFICE PROJECT DESCRIPTION months to a poor rural community and see the An initiative of DOLE, in collaboration with BON-PR tremendous impact. OHNAP and other government and non-government entities, an to promote nurse entrepreneurship in the Philippines: 2. ADOPT a nurse cooperative and help sustain the 1) to reduce the cost of health care for the count mission of hundreds of public health advocates. by bringing primary health care services to poor 2) to maximize employment opportunities for the 3. DONATE to a nurse cooperative. nurses and 3) to utilize the country’s unemployed human reso delivery of public health services and the achie 4. OUTSOURCE the delivery of your health care Millennium Development Goals on matern services to a nurse cooperative. consistent with the Fourmula One for Hea Department of Health.
- 2. PROJECT BENEFICIARIES In Region 11, the ratio of public health manpower to population is even more FORMS OF NURSE ENTREPRENEUR worrying: Compostela Valley has only 1 government doctor for every 49,666 population and one HMO members, PhilHealth members, self-paying patients, government nurse for every 40,353; Davao del Norte has one doctor for every 53,924 and one nurse for every 27,832; Davao Oriental has one doctor for every 49,189 and one nurse for every 1. Hospice, domiciliary and healthcare facility manage convalescent patients, patients needing long-term treatment, elderly, 32,793; Davao del Sur has one doctor for every 49,189 and one nurse for every 32,793; Davao occupationally disabled, identified poor rural communities, and unemployed 2. Public health advocacy City, the regional center, has one doctor for every 73,484 and one nurse for every 39,891. nurses. Therefore, the deployment of nurses to poor rural communities in these provinces is an urgent 3. Home health care services need. 4. Outsourcing public health delivery for LGUs, NGAs, other government institutions LEGAL BASES On the other hand, the oversupply of registered nurses in the country, now estimated 5. Medical transcription services at 150,000, resulting from the boom in the number of nursing schools and the spike in nursing 6. Health care training management ARTICLE VI, RA 9173 enrolment from the 1980s to 2008 (there has been a 17% drop in enrolment for 2009) has brought home the issue of how to provide employment opportunities for our unemployed nurses. 7. Emergency medical services NURSING PRACTICE 8. Tourism health care services The DOLE’s Project NARS has provided temporary employment for 11,000 nurses all over the Section 28. Scope of Nursing. - A person shall be deemed to be practicing nursing country in 1,000 poverty-stricken municipalities. 9. Wellness and fitness management for private comp within the meaning of this Act when he/she singly or in collaboration with another, 10. Outsourcing health services for private establishm initiates and performs nursing services to individuals, families and communities in any Code requirement health care setting. It includes, but not limited to, nursing care during conception, labor, IMPLEMENTING ENTITIES AND THEIR 11. Medical mission management for private companies delivery, infancy, childhood, toddler, preschool, school age, adolescence, adulthood, 12. Periodic physical examination of workers for private and old age. As independent practitioners, nurses are primarily responsible for the PRINCIPAL ROLES promotion of health and prevention of illness. Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) – Provide overall management and direction 1. Article V, RA 7164 NURSING PRACTICE and provide financial assistance in the form of grants to nurses’ cooperatives which the latter PROCESS FLOW will use as start-up capital. The DOLE through its regional offices shall also assist the nurses Section 27. Scope of Nursing. - A person shall be deemed to be practicing nursing organize themselves into cooperatives or associations and register themselves with the appropriate government authority. within the meaning of this Act when he/she, for a fee, salary or other reward or compensation, singly or in collaboration with another, initiates and performs nursing 2. Department of Health (DOH) – Lead in the formulation or reform of health policies in support services to individuals, families and communities in various stages of development of this initiative, including referring patients to the project’s nurses’ cooperatives. toward the promotion of health, prevention of illness, restoration of health, and alleviation of suffering. 3. Philippine Health Corporation (PhilHealth) – Upon approval of its Board of Directors, shall modify its rules to include home and rehabilitation services as part of its package of benefits for Philhealth members and pay for or reimburse home health care services of nurses’ RATIONALE cooperatives registered with the CDA under this Project. 4. Board of Nursing-Professional Regulation Commission (BON-PRC) – Promote nurse This initiative aims to achieve public health objectives and at the same time entrepreneurship among the country’s nursing students and schools and research on the address the unemployment problem of licensed nurses in the country. The strategy is to feasibility of including nurse entrepreneurship in the BSN curriculum; Design and implement an encourage nurses to form cooperatives and manage nurses’ clinics, under the Enterprise Development Training Course for nurses’ cooperatives in partnership with the supervision of trained and experienced nurses, which will deploy newly licensed nurses Cooperatives Development Authority. to poor rural communities with little or no access to basic health care and with substantial populations of sick, elderly and disabled patients. These services will be 5. University of the Philippines College of Nursing and Philippine Nurses Association compensated by the LGU, Philhealth, HMOs, by the patients themselves on a per visit (UPCN and PNA)– Research and formulate costing standards that our nurses’ cooperatives basis, or from grants from local and foreign donors. Congressmen’s and Senator’s can use as guide in fixing the cost of their services; formulate metrics in evaluating socio- economic impact of the project on public health in pilot communities and conduct evaluation Priority Development Funds shall also be tapped. using the same metrics. Quality health care is an expensive option for most Filipinos, many of whom 6. Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) – Shall promote the concept of nurse entrepreneurship do not have health insurance. The popular saying, “Bawal Magkasakit” is not only an among its chapters and members and help obtain funding grants from abroad, particularly its attempt at dark humor but reflects a reality that the overwhelming majority of Filipinos overseas chapters. simply cannot afford quality health care. The data from the HMOs is that only less than 15% of the population have health insurance. The rest pay for health care services 7. Occupational Health Nurses Association of the Philippines (OHNAP) – Refer qualified either out of pocket or through the Philhealth. In 2002, the World Health Organization patients from their company-based clinics to the project’s nurses’ cooperatives; and train nurse estimated that of total health expenditures in the Philippines, 47.5% is out of pocket. cooperative members on basic occupational safety and health for nurses Beyond the issue of the high cost of quality health care, access to primary 8. Cooperatives Development Authority (CDA) – Shall register nurses’ cooperatives and train health care is also a problem amongst poor rural communities. In one report of one of them on cooperativism. our nurses under Project NARS, a pregnant woman died under his watch simply 9. Insurance Commission (IC) – Shall promote the Project among HMOs to include home health because the upland town lacked oxygen supplies. The Philippines has one of the worst care as part of its package of benefits for their HMO member. health manpower to population ratio in Asia. In 1999, our ratio of one doctor per 9,689 population is only slightly better than Cambodia’s 9,997, but lower than Indonesia’s 10. LGUs and other sponsoring agencies or organizations – Identify the barangays which are 6,195, Thailand’s 3,670, Myanmar’s 3,291, Vietnam’s 2,122, Malaysia’s 1,465 and most in need of health care services and pay for the services of the project’s nurses’ Singapore’s 731. cooperatives on a per visit basis.