Dinx

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1. Will USA need more nurses on year 2020? Any idea? Pls help. Nursing student here from FEU.

   Dinx replied to Missweirdgal's topic in International

   I am an IEN, a Filipino. I graduated 2007, work for 3 years in the Philippines and the past 3 and a half years in Middle East. I'm on my way to work in a Houston Hospital next month. Prior to this, I've been interviewed by 4 US hospitals, 2 in Texas,...

2. what are my chances?

   Dinx replied to Dinx's topic in International

   The problem is OGP will request to postpone the embassy interview of their petitioned foreign nurses for a year or 2 until they can have a placement for them. Til then they will not give a letter of support as what might juan de la cruz mentioned in ...

3. what are my chances?

   Dinx replied to Dinx's topic in International

   Thanks for the info, Im not aware of that. Most probably OGP has never written any kind of letter of support to their recruits. I have a co-worker here in kuwait also under OGP. It took her 10 months after her PD became current before she got hired b...

4. what are my chances?

   Dinx posted a topic in International

   Im waiting for my PD (July 2008) to be current (EB3-Philippines) to USA. I got my EB petition from O'Grady Peyton. I have a current license in Vermont (passed California NCLEX-RN), been an ER nurse in the Philippines for 3 years and currently working...

5. Kuwait MOH

   Dinx replied to Dinx's topic in Philippines

   My subcon here in kuwait is Al Ruwad. Their only function was just to process our documents for formalities. We are now regular employees under the Ministry of Health, meaning our salary comes from the MOH finance and goes directly to us not thru our...

6. 2006 and up Registered Nurses' Career Path Status

   Dinx replied to mikeru22's topic in Philippines

   I am a 2nd courser of BSN, I graduated March of 2007. I worked in Pfizer before taking up BSN. I took NLE June of 2007 and took NCLEX-RN September of 2007. I really put emphasis on finishing all licensure exams first before taking a plunge in hospita...

7. Kuwait MOH

   Dinx replied to Dinx's topic in Philippines

   Some update regarding MOH hiring. Eventually the Ministry of Health Kuwait went to India for massive hiring just recently. My take why they choose to hire Indian nurses solely is because of MONEY that comes along conveniently for local agencies/subco...

8. Kuwait MOH

   Dinx replied to Dinx's topic in Philippines

   If I could only answer your queries, I would gladly do that, but Im not familiar with private hospitals here in Kuwait as Im working under MOH. Im hoping somebody can do that for you here in this thread.

9. Kuwait MOH

   Dinx replied to Dinx's topic in Philippines

   first and foremost, the agency should have your visas in there hands before they will let you do the medicals, the reason for this is your medical result might expire already and your visa is not yet available so it is jus a waste of time and money. ...

10. Kuwait MOH

    Dinx replied to Dinx's topic in Philippines

    no...

11. Kuwait MOH

    Dinx replied to Dinx's topic in Philippines

    The exterior of the building is finish but not sure of the inside.

12. Kuwait MOH

    Dinx replied to Dinx's topic in Philippines

    Please be aware that in MOH hospitals there is no such thing as overtime. We dont do overtime here and no double pay for holidays, instead if you are on duty on a special holiday, you will just get an additional off (they call it balance off). I have...

13. Kuwait MOH

    Dinx replied to Dinx's topic in Philippines

    For police verification, you will go to their police station and just do finger printing, Kuwait police authority will be the one to verify it from our NBI regarding our records.As for the medical exam here, as what I've said it is free of charge. Ju...

14. Kuwait MOH

    Dinx replied to Dinx's topic in Philippines

    There's no problem regarding your visa it will be processed as working visa directly. In our case, we spent almost 2 months processing our papers for formalities here including MOH finance papers, police verifications, iqama, nurse license, medicals,...

15. Kuwait MOH

    Dinx replied to Dinx's topic in Philippines

    I have not heard of 10 hrs work/day here in any moh hospitals or in any area. The shifting here is 7am-2pm, 2pm-10pm and 10pm-7am. Also if you are indeed bound for moh hospitals, you will not know as to where hospital you'll be with nor to what area ...