CPD or Continuing Professional Development for Philippine Nurses 2023

For Filipino registered nurses: Did you know that you can still do a waiver for delaying your CPD or continuing professional development units until December 2023? As the public may be aware, registered nurses in the Philippines are expected to comply with the 15 CPD units per license renewal which is every 3 years. It was originally at 45 units but due to a huge volume of backlash coming from the nurses, it went down to a compulsory of 15 units.

Why you may say? For those who may be a practicing nurse from other countries, you may find it bizarre why these nurses are resisting. I personally believe in pursuing professional development studies for patient safety and I think these are vital as knowledge in medicine constantly change. What right practice you may know today may not be right to practice tomorrow.

However, it was because of the exorbitant fees that will be taken up from the pocket of these nurses. A one to two hours would cost you 500 pesos or more and this seminar would only credit 1 CPD unit. Nurses in the Philippines were abused and exploited since a decade or two. We were crying out for a meager increase but were unheard. It was until that the COVID-19 pandemic happened that hospitals are now the one at the mercy of these nurses they took advantaged of. Hello, volunteerism and training fees?

Anyway, things are now better for the new nurses. There are numerous seminars which are now done online and are offered for free. Look it up. It is better that you comply with the necessary units than delay it further. Seminars/Trainings are only valid for 2 or 3 years from the time you attended them.

In order to know your acquired CPD units from these seminars/trainings, you can register/sign in to the CPDAS website: https://cpdas.prc.gov.ph/myCPD/loginProfessional.aspx

And before you take that seminar or training, make sure that the programs they offer are accredited by the PRC or else they won't accept it as valid in  your renewal. You can check them out at: https://cpdas.prc.gov.ph/public/index.aspx

Hope it helps!