call center or telephone triage nursing

[malaya]

as an alternative to looking for hospital nursing experience, i am interested in telephone triage nursing in the philippines. i've heard of about 2 companies involve in this venture. can anyone enlighten me as to the scope of this job? what are the hours of work like? how much does it pay? is there an association of call center nurses in the philippines? can your experience in the philippines as call center nurses be accepted in the US?

thank you for your replies

[suzanne4, RN]

Call centers in the US require that the RN hold a license for that state.

You bring up a very valid point as well as to why the call centers in Philippines are not being used the way call centers are in the US.

[malaya]

fyi suzanne, there is one call center looking for nurses with US licences particularly california and new york RN license. i'm thus presuming that they will be made to do telephone triage nursing. that's why my original post was a query to those employed in this call center as to what responsibilities they hold, how much they're paid etc. tnx.

[suzanne4, RN]

Suggest that you contact the company directly and ask them these questions. It is very hard for call center to meet the requirements for the US if the nurses only have licenses in two states as well.

The ones that I have seen try this did not last too long.

This is the very reason that you do not see anyone posting here about this type of job as most do not have the licenses for CA without having a SSN#.