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Hi,

I am new to this site and I found it very informative. This would be my first post. I would just like to know if anybody on this board wrote the Kuwait MOH exam last March 18 in PICC? I believe there were 3 agencies who facilitated the exam and interview. In my case I passed the exam and was interviewed by the Kuwait MOH delegates last March 24 at Diamond Hotel- Manila. The agency called me up informing me that I passed the interview and wait for further instructions for the next step. I would just like to hear how many of us are awaiting for possible deployment to Kuwait and any update as to your case will be greatly appreciated. Many Thanks.

Al Salam International Hospital is a private hospital, it is not under Ministry of Health. As what I've said before, any exam for Kuwait hospitals (private or government) will be conducted by a Ministry of Health delegation as it is already their licensure exam. What I think most applicants are waiting under ADM, Best One etc is the MOH exam for government hospitals which offers 650KD salary a month.

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Yup, we took our exam last January 8, 2012. From what I know those nurses who took the exam are from C.A.A. Manpower Corp only. We were about 300 nurses and almost half passed the exam.

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In response to your post Dinx, I believe that those applicants who are still waiting for exam are to be deployed in Government Hosp. As what I've said out of 177 who passed the exam, only 33 of us were hired by Al Salam. The rest were still waiting to be deployed in the following Hosp. (Royal Hyatt, Alorf Hosp, Dasman Diabet Inst., Al Ebtisama Clinic). If you noticed those are Private Hospitals so I think our batch were all be deployed in Private Hospitals. To those who are waiting for their exam just be patient because 650kd is far good compared to our Salary.

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Yes, those hospitals you mentioned are all private hospitals, Royal Hyatt was just recently named the no. 1 hospital here in Kuwait for 2 consecutive years. I also have a friend who works there but the work load is too much according to him and salary is just half as to the salary of government hospitals, benefit-wise, it's better to be in a government hospital because the Ministry of Health is your direct employer, plus work load is much lighter compared to private hospitals. Pull-out never happens in my hospital but to private hospitals, it is almost always since staffs are limited unlike with government hospitals, staffs are more than enough to cover nurse-patient ratio. This past week, we only have at the average of 10-12 patients in our unit, nurses on duty-15. LOL !!!

Anyway, whatever opportunities coming your way should not be taken for granted. God Bless us Nurses.

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Dinx, I just wanna know how it feels like working in Kuwait? I mean how does Nursing here and in there differs? I'm just a staff nurse in a secondary hospital with obsolete machines and stuffs, LOL. Anyway, I'm a little bit anxious because soon I'll be working in a Big hospital with of course advanced machines and more trained personnel. Please give me some piece of advice coz I'm just one of the hopeful nurses who feels the same way.

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You don't have to worry about work here per se as a nurse, we do have the skills and the knowledge to perform our duties. Trust me, things will be done accordingly when you will be here aleady. All work when handed to you will be learned as time goes by, so no worries.

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thanks a lot... that atleast lessen my anxiety. How about the accommodation, food, co-workers, immediate supervisors and patients you handled? Can you share to me some insights or your experiences with those may it be positive or negative... highly appreciated.

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Our accommodation is free and was provided by the ministry and our hostel is fully furnish and nice. I have no idea about for private hospitals which I knew is provided by sub-cons (not sure as well).

Co-workers: just do good with your work and basically be nice to them and in return they will be nice to you and it also goes to supervisors, patients etc....

Just focus on your application first, maybe it will take long before you can come here. Just enjoy your stay while you are still waiting in the Philippines. Take it sway-sway ( arabic for slowly!)

Good Luck and God Bless!!!

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Can i ask something? and hope some one can answer my question. im applying for MOH in kuwait here in Phil. and exam are supposedly last December according to my agency but up to this moment there is no update when will that exam be, am i not wasting my time in waiting for something that will not happen? hope to have answers to my question.. thank you...

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The agency where you applied can best answer your inquiries.

Anyway, let me share some first hand information here in Kuwait. As what I've observed, MOH hospitals here (Al Sabah Hospital, Amiri Hospital, Mubarak Hospital, Adan Hospital, Jarah Hospital and Farwaniya Hospital) have sufficient/enough and some have plenty of staff nurses due to the fact that over one thousand nurses from India and Philippines were hired last year and up to now the Ministry is not done yet with the processing/formalities of all papers. I had the chance to speak with our Nursing Director during my first evaluation and got the chance to ask about future hirings of the Ministry and said that at this point in time, there is no need for the Ministry to hire because they do have enough Staff nurses. Even with the Police affairs/academy, prison, dental, derma, ect, whose nurses are also hired by the Ministry, most feedback is there are plenty of staff nurses and only very few are resigning due to the fact that work now for nurses are hard to find in western countries.

One good thing is, the Ministry is building a one big hospital somewhere in Sura and its still under construction now. Maybe, just maybe, this is the one most agencies in the Philippines are trying to advertised for possible vacancies, but I think it will still be later than sooner. It wont take months to finish and immediately hire nurses for a big hospital as we all know...LOL.

This I'm talking about is for Government Hospitals, I have no idea for private hospitals. Extend your horizons, apply to other opportunities, the more, the merrier as they say!!!

Hope this helps.

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Hi avengers001!

Dinx is right - your agency can best answer your question as the people there are the ones who have direct communication with MOH. As for the wasting your time part, i suggest that while waiting for the MOH exam you can try applying in other agencies and countries. By doing that you're increasing the probability of being hired - that is, if you're open to the idea of working in another country. Now if you're dead set on Kuwait then you'll have to be patient. I know there are private hospitals that are hiring nurses here in Kuwait, right now, I'm not sure when it comes to government hospitals though.

They say there is a time and reason for everything so just hope and pray.

Good luck! :)

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@Dinx- tnx for the info. too sad to say but maybe kuwait is not the ryt country for me.. ill try to apply to other agency for other country.. ive been wasting for my time waiting for that exam since december... maybe its not really meant for me..tnx for the info god bless

@zephie 814- tnx for the tip, just a little bit disappointed on what is happening. :(

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