Re: Relief for retrogression hope??? Originally Posted by jano 
If more nursing schools open in the U.S., the more they would be needing foreign trained nurses to become teachers and clinical instructors. This world is such a small place that people from different countries and culture are interdependent with one another. Remember America is a land of immigrants and that is a part of your heritage that you cannot deny. Studying nursing is not a guarantee that they will stay on the job unlike those foreign trained nurses who have been proven to be loyal and caring nurses especially the Filipinos because of our natural caring attitudes and high regard for families especially the elderly.
Sorry, but your premise is completely off base and has nothing to back it up at all. First, your country permits a new grad to teach, you would not see that being done in any other country. Just not acceptable and it is being proven a very bad idea in your country with passing rates of exams way down from what they were a few years ago, down by about 30%.
And hate to tell you that it is even getting quite hard to get petitioned by a hospital in CA because of the number that have walked from contracts over here in the past year or two.
And how have the foreign nurses from your country been proven to be loyal when most of them do not even have jobs in your country in nursing?
Lets get serious here instead of making blanket statements that you most certainly have nothing to back them up with.
And because someone has taught in your country, it most definitely does not mean that they will even be considered for a teaching position in the US if they cannot meet the requirements here to be able to teach.
Your country needs to clean up its act first, they do not let foreign nurses into your country to work, so why does the US need to open its doors for th hundreds of thousands that are going to school there now? That just makes no sense.
And can we ask, what type of experience do you actually have as an RN working in your country? Is it actually a paying job or one that you are paying for?
And another thing that you need to be aware of: the reputation of the Filipino RN was started more than 20 years ago and they worked quite hard for that, only to see it torn down by new grads coming out of school that have no skills under their belt. Starting an IV, placing foley catheters, placing an NG tube, drawing blood are all routine experiences that one is expected to have by the time they graduate from a BSN program, but when you have 15 to 18 students per one patient, then it is hard to learn the skills that we take for granted.
Perhaps you need to focus on making things better in your country first, rather than telling us what we need to do here.
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