PNAA Nurse Balik Turo History

At the General Assembly meeting held on July 1, 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts, Rosario May Mayor, the 14th Philippine Nurses Association of America (PNAA) President presented a vision of having a Nurse Balik-Turo program. Her vision is that “nurses from the USA will come ‘home’ to the Philippines to teach and impart nursing knowledge to our compatriots in the Philippines.”

The Objectives of the Nurse Balik-Turo are:

  • Provide and impart state of the art clinical expertise and knowledge
  • Improve exchange of medical and clinical information between individuals or schools of the two countries
  • Enhance education of colleagues in the homeland
  • Gain a rewarding experience for the exchange
  • Sustain partnerships with collaborating associations and partners.

In March of 2007 this vision was launched with the recruitment of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) at the Western Regional Conference in Portland, Oregon. There was so much enthusiasm. Remedios Solarte, PNAA Executive Director and Chair of the Nurse Balik Turo 2008 started a Directory of SMEs. SMEs are in the following fields of expertise: Clinical practice, Administration/ Management, Research and Education/Academia.

Philippine Nurses Association President Leah Paquiz was contacted to partner with the PNAA and she graciously accepted to co-sponsor the 2008 Nurse Balik Turo. She appointed Maria Isabelita Rogado to be the PNA Chairperson of the program.

With the collaboration of PNAA and PNA, nine hospitals agreed to participate in the First Phase of the Nurse Balik-Turo project. The first phase targets hospitals to share contemporary evidence-based practices applicable in Philippine clinical settings.

At the end of the program, the SMEs are expected to report back on their experience. Quantitative and qualitative surveys will be done. Results of these surveys will be used to guide the PNAA in planning and structuring the second and subsequent phases of the Balic-Turo projects.

The PNAA strongly believes that the impact of globalization demands that Filipino nurses keep pace with changing technology, fast breaking developments in research-based nursing interventions and pedagogical approaches responsive to diverse ethnic and cultural groups. Nurses in the USA are exposed to cutting edge technology in health care and the most recent advances in medicine and nursing. Additionally, the visiting Filipino nurses will bring back to their work areas trends, issues and challenges facing nurses in the clinical, academic and administrative arenas in the Philippines.

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