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70%-80% of Staff in Tan Tock Seng Hospital are Filipino

Post by Barnsley » Wed, 07 Jan 2015 5:32 pm

I just read this stat on Asia One in one of their forums....

Does this actually surprise anyone?

Nursing/Patient care below Doctor level doesn't strike me as career path being touted as one to follow for Singaporeans.

I have no idea what the pay levels are but I imagine that the pay is around SPASS/WP level which wouldnt strike me as an incentive to the folks you would want to be going into nursing.

This is on the back of the latest Witch Hunt against someone posting on Facebook , it turned out the guy posting the idiotic comments worked at TTSH
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Post by zzm9980 » Wed, 07 Jan 2015 9:20 pm

Barnsley wrote:I just read this stat on Asia One in one of their forums....

Does this actually surprise anyone?
The most surprising thing is that you read this "stat" in a forum on AsiaOne and just took it at face value.

- 70-80% of all stats posted on the Internet are made up on the fly.
- 99.8% of all words posted in AsiaOne forums are utterly worthly drivel.

^- One of the two bullet points above is actually factual :D

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Post by the lynx » Thu, 08 Jan 2015 9:31 am

Honestly I'm not surprised with that statement. It is an open info.

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Post by nakatago » Thu, 08 Jan 2015 10:14 am

zzm9980 wrote:
Barnsley wrote:I just read this stat on Asia One in one of their forums....

Does this actually surprise anyone?
The most surprising thing is that you read this "stat" in a forum on AsiaOne and just took it at face value.

- 70-80% of all stats posted on the Internet are made up on the fly.
- 99.8% of all words posted in AsiaOne forums are utterly worthly drivel.

^- One of the two bullet points above is actually factual :D
Fun fact: Did you know that 83.6% of statistics are made up?
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Post by rajagainstthemachine » Fri, 09 Jan 2015 3:14 pm

98.9% of Indians who post here have a masters degree.
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Post by x9200 » Fri, 09 Jan 2015 3:23 pm

rajagainstthemachine wrote:98.9% of Indians who post here have a masters degree.
of which 105% from a university that is at least 2 times reputable.

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Post by rajagainstthemachine » Fri, 09 Jan 2015 3:43 pm

3 the number of times SMS says tic toc each time.
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Post by Wd40 » Fri, 09 Jan 2015 4:01 pm

rajagainstthemachine wrote:98.9% of Indians who post here have a masters degree.
And I belong to the 1.1% who doesn't.
96.6% of all posts made in this forum with the word "Indian" are done by me :D

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Post by ecureilx » Fri, 09 Jan 2015 4:01 pm

Barnsley wrote:I..
there are many reasons why nursing is not a preferred profession here .. along with the ancilliary services

And in fact, a fair number of the foreign nurses are actually wet nurses ..

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Post by rajagainstthemachine » Fri, 09 Jan 2015 4:44 pm

ecureilx wrote:
Barnsley wrote:I..
there are many reasons why nursing is not a preferred profession here .. along with the ancilliary services

And in fact, a fair number of the foreign nurses are actually wet nurses ..
whats a wet nurse? sounds kinky :twisted:
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Post by ecureilx » Fri, 09 Jan 2015 5:34 pm

rajagainstthemachine wrote:
ecureilx wrote:
Barnsley wrote:I..
there are many reasons why nursing is not a preferred profession here .. along with the ancilliary services

And in fact, a fair number of the foreign nurses are actually wet nurses ..
whats a wet nurse? sounds kinky :twisted:
the ones who wipe the poop, change adult diaper, and sponge the bodies .. is that kinky enough ?? :P :P

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Post by bgd » Fri, 09 Jan 2015 5:50 pm

ecureilx wrote: the ones who wipe the poop, change adult diaper, and sponge the bodies .. is that kinky enough ?? :P :P

Really? Always thought it was a woman who breast feeds another's baby.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_nurse

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Post by ecureilx » Fri, 09 Jan 2015 6:09 pm

bgd wrote:
ecureilx wrote: the ones who wipe the poop, change adult diaper, and sponge the bodies .. is that kinky enough ?? :P :P

Really? Always thought it was a woman who breast feeds another's baby.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_nurse
maybe in those days, it was so ..

nowadays, wet nurse is ... not same :) as I understood .. if not, I do stand corrected ...

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Post by rajagainstthemachine » Fri, 09 Jan 2015 6:14 pm

ecureilx wrote:
the ones who wipe the poop, change adult diaper, and sponge the bodies .. is that kinky enough ?? :P :P
I'd like 1 sponge job from a wet nurse please.
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Post by ecureilx » Fri, 09 Jan 2015 10:48 pm

anyway, the 70-80% was just some pot stirring

From TTSH !

We would also like to clarify that a quarter of our staff are foreigners, contrary to the inaccurate report by Shin Min Daily News on 5 January 2015.

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