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  1. Moving to UNCH

    Hi,I won't be able to help you with kids schooling 'coz I'll be moving on my own but if there's anything else I can help you with just let me know.
  2. Moving to UNCH

    Hi! I'm a nurse here in UK and will be moving soon (hopefully in October) to University of North Carolina Hospital. I am just wondering if anyone out there will be able to give some advice/idea on best place to get an apartment in and around Chapel H...
  3. Critical Care Course

    Yeah, it seems that there are a gazillion topics to write about but I've found out that the topics I'm interested in like effects of nutrition in intensive care patients, CVVH, organ donation, withdrawal of treatment, and therapeutic hypothermia are ...
  4. Critical Care Course

    Hi there! I've just started doing a critical care course this week and I would like to ask for some suggestions for topics to write. I need 5 topics for my learning contracts and I have to choose 2 topics from those 5 to do an extended learning. I wo...
  5. NVC -CP- GC Tracker

    Hi to everyone, I just received a mail from UPHS today telling me that they are now going to withdraw their offer of employment to me:cry: as they are now unable to expand their international nursing program due to the current economic crisis in the...
  6. Tips for Repositioning & Bathing Pts!

    I can't believe it's still like that in America. I've always thought that whatever we have here in UK when it comes to patient equipments/facilities, you guys have it better in U.S. Apart from not doing any lifting on patients, we're also taught h...
  7. Tips for Repositioning & Bathing Pts!

    Pardon my ignorance, but when you guys mentioned draw sheet, did you mean sliding sheets? I work here in U.K. and we doesn't use draw sheets anymore for several years now. we instead have different types of sliding sheets or glide sheets that help t...
  8. NVC -CP- GC Tracker

    hi suzanne4, i just want to ask you if i still have to check with NVC re: visa availability like what everybody else is doing or just wait for the embassy to contact me. i was just wondering why those people with PD dates earlier or later than mine g...
  9. NVC -CP- GC Tracker

    Hi there! congratulations to all those whose PD dates are now current. By the way i would like to ask how long is the validity of the medical? I had mine in June last year. I'm hoping that my PD will be current by next month and I just want to know i...
  10. Can the hospital sponsor a nurse educator on H1B?

    thanks for all the reply. i'm going to UPHS as a staff nurse and not as a specialist nurse or something. i've changed my mind now. i'll just wait for my immigrant visa and phone my agency today that i'm not going ahead with the H1B. i'm quite ok he...
  11. Can the hospital sponsor a nurse educator on H1B?

    Hi suzanne. I'm still confused. why would University of Pennsylvania Health System offer to apply H1B visas for their applicants who are still waiting for immigrant visa, if H1bs are not legal for nurses like me. they're a big institution and has a g...
  12. H1-B Visa Available for Nurses?

    Hi suzanne/Lawrence, Please help to enlighten me as I'm quite confused right now. I know from all the information you've given that there's no way H1B can be given to a nurse but I got a call from my agency today asking me if I want to go to US with ...
  13. Retrogression Is Not Over

    Ok. Thanks a lot for all the info. God bless!
  14. Retrogression Is Not Over

    Oh dear, I'll have to stop hoping then that I'll get a visa in October.... Does that mean that those who got their interview cancelled has a better chance of getting a visa in October than I am? Does it also mean that my only chance now of getting a ...
  15. Retrogression Is Not Over

    Hi! Thanks for replying. My country of birth is Philippines. Anyway, I guess I just have to wait and see. I just don't understand how they work in giving out visas 'coz I initially thought that once you're interviewed, a visa is already reserved for ...