PLGU DdO: Now a local CPD Provider for a streamlined workforce

Davao de Oro Province--- Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a core towards life-long learning. It integrates professionals for skills and knowledge that is up-to-date and responsive to the need for time.

In the era of hybrid societies where workplaces revamp to adapt in varying situations, it is preeminent to equip and upgrade skills regularly thru CPD, which enables the renewal and updating of skills in the workplace setting.

With fantastic support to the backbone of its progress, the Provincial Government of Davao de Oro has come up with a Continuing Professional Development Program. The CPD program aims to cater to its employees of varied professions, particularly those covered under the RA 1080 who need to earn their required CPD units to renew their licenses with the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).

Through the Provincial Human Resource Management and Development Office (PHRMDO) headed by Lara Zaphire Kristy N. Bermejo, PLGU-DdO is now an accredited Local CPD Provider with the 'Nursing Program' as its pilot program of the provincial government.

Currently, with the continued fight against the pandemic, it is time that healthcare workers, particularly nurses in the four (4) provincial hospitals in the province, are given training that would amplify their skills in the healthcare setting.

Two CPD Programs entitled as "Basic Life Support (BLS) Course" and "Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Course" were offered by the provincial government in partnership with the Philippine Heart Association (PHA) and Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) last August 16-23, 2021, where 198 nurses from the provincial hospitals participated in the designed online training. Physical training is also part of the two programs, which will resume when authorities permit face-to-face interaction.

Fixated on the goal for a progressive province, the provincial government plans to extend its accreditation as a local CPD provider of programs for other professions. (Jasteen Abella, Information Division, Davao de Oro)

Is the Philippines really a collectivism society?

 

Erwin Anciano

 

Freelance Writer and Aspiring Novelist

The Philippines is totally Collectivist.

But not on the National level like some Far East Asian countries. The Philippines is collectivist on the familial level.

Family is one of the biggest Filipino values. If not the biggest. Filipinos in general will put their family above everything. I can tell you this after decades of handling Filipino employees, and twice that living as an actual Filipino.

A Filipino will spill every drop of his blood if it meant making life a little easier for their family. You just need to look at the OFWs, the unsung heroes who keep the economy of the country afloat.

OFWs will work hard to earn qualifications and certifications, visas and permits to be allowed the privilege of working abroad, to slave and toil in a foreign land with no friends or family, working menial jobs like scrubbing toilets or wiping the ass of stinky old people, all to earn a meager paycheck, 80% of which is sent back home to their families at home, to support a mother and father who can’t work anymore, or to send a younger sibling to college.

Five of my cousins are like this. They went to the US, to England, to Germany just to work a job and send money back home to their families.

You can see the level of familial piety in this country, it is not just in the big things like that, but in the little things. Filipinos don’t leave their family to dry, and sons and daughters respect their elders and follow their counsel even if it is contrary to their own desires.

That is just how Filipinos roll.

Developing unity and consistency in our life

By Fr. Roy Cimagala *

          WHILE Christ was always patient, compassionate, merciful and

the like with everyone, we cannot deny that there were occasions that

he showed anger and expressed some lamentations. He even did this with

his disciples, and especially with those self-righteous leading Jews

of his time and those who converted the temple into a market place.

          In one occasion, while being invited for dinner by a

Pharisee, he was criticized, at least interiorly by those around, for

not observing the prescribed washing before the meal. That’s when he

told the host, “Oh you Pharisees! Although you cleanse the outside of

the cup and the dish, inside you are filled with plunder and evil. You

fools! Did not the maker of the outside also make the inside?” (cfr.

Lk 11,37-41)

          This gospel episode somehow warns us that we are always

prone to fall into all kinds of formalism and legalism without the

proper spirit and motive behind our actions, laws, culture, etc. It

reminds us that we have to be truly consistent and to develop a

certain unity of life that can only be achieved if we are with Christ,

who is the pattern of our humanity and the savior of our damaged

humanity.

          Developing this consistency and unity of life should be an

abiding concern for all of us. Even if we have to contend with many

aspects and dimensions of our life, it is only one life that each of

us has, not two or three. And thus, to build and keep our unity of

life is a daily task of ours. We can neglect it only to our own

serious risk and damage.

          Our life is not only biological that relies simply on our

biological functions. Neither is it just purely physical or material

that requires merely material nourishment.

          Our life has many more important aspects and dimensions that

need to be integrated into one whole consistent thing. There’s the

manual and intellectual, the active and contemplative, personal and

social, the material and spiritual, the temporal and eternal, etc.

          And precisely because of our spiritual nature, we open

ourselves to a supernatural level. That’s just how the cookie

crumbles. Thus, we should also be aware of what is natural and

supernatural in our life, the mundane and the sacred.

          We can manage to have this consistency and unity of life if

we identify ourselves with Christ. Let’s remember what Christ said so

clearly. He is the vine, we are the branches. We can only have life,

let alone, consistency and fruitfulness in our life, if we are united

to him. Outside of him, we can only expect death, inconsistency and

sterility.

          Yes, only in and with Christ can we have the real principle

of unity and fruitfulness in our life. We would be fooling ourselves

if we fail to recognize this basic truth about ourselves.

          This, of course, is a truth of faith, not so much of

science. And that’s where the problem lies. There is a crisis of faith

in the world, especially involving those who rely more on their human

abilities than on belief in Christ.

          We have to correct that predicament by realizing more deeply

that our life is supposed to be a life with God since not only are we

one of his creatures, but a creature that is meant to be his image and

likeness. We are meant to be like God through Christ in the Holy

Spirit. That’s how we can have consistency and unity of life.

* Chaplain Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (CITE), Talamban, Cebu City

Email: roycimagala@gmail.com