Canadian going to Philippines to study nursing

prolife · Dec 8, 2008

AAAAAHHHHH nobody is paying any attention to Me!!!!!!!! :bugeyes:

Look! Look! Look over here!!!!!

Ok if no nurses from Philippines come here to give me advice I will let this thread die and go into eternal obscurity!!!!! :bluecry1: :zzzzz

Tweety, BSN, RN · Dec 8, 2008

This might not be the forum.

I'll move it to the Philippine Nurses forum and see if someone will answer you there.

Good luck!

Silverdragon102, BSN · Dec 8, 2008

I think what you have to be aware of you will have to meet Canadian requirements for foreign trained and from the Philippines we are seeing members have to make hours up or do a bridging program. Also you will need to take and pass the NLE if you have a Philippine passport if you haven't you may want to contact the province nursing board and see if they will accept you without it as generally they require a local license as part of their processing.

suzanne4, RN · Dec 8, 2008

If you do not hold dual citizenship in the Philipines, you will not be able to stay there and work as an RN. You may also not be aware that there are over 500,000 unemployed RNs there now, so getting hired when you finished even if you could write the NLE would not be too easy to do as well as the fact that they usually do unpaid volunteer or training programs for three to six months before they get paid.

I would also suggest that you take the time to do some reading here before thinking of anything else. You may not know that many of the programs there are now using new grads as Clinical Instructors that have never worked one day in a hospital as a staff nurse. This should influence you greatly.

Also the fact that you are going not going to be able to get licensed immediately to work back in Canada, you will be considered a foreign grad which you will be and will have to get special permission as a start since you will not be able to have a local license and this a requirement of Canada in all provinces. As well as more than likely having to do a bridge program before you can sit for the CRNE as well.

It would be much better for you to consider a bridge program in the US that will take less than two years for you to complete in most cases and is accepted for licensure at least as the ADN. You could then get the TN Visa and work while completing your BSN. That makes much more sense to me rather than being someplace for four years where you will not be permitted to work at all either.

Please do some reading before making any decisions, there is much more to it than I assume that you are aware of.

Best of luck to you.

suzanne4, RN · Dec 8, 2008

Also, not sure which province that you are from, but you also need to be aware of the fact that Alberta only gives the four year grad from the Philippines credit as the LPN until they can prove themselves for months. They are not being accepted automatically as the RN when there were skills were compared to others in the province.

prolife · Dec 8, 2008

Also, not sure which province that you are from, but you also need to be aware of the fact that Alberta only gives the four year grad from the Philippines credit as the LPN until they can prove themselves for months. They are not being accepted automatically as the RN when there were skills were compared to others in the province.

Geeze! You have given me much to consider!!!!! :eek:

I am from Alberta. I have read that we were importing RNs from Philippines to work here as we have such an acute skills shortage. My understanding was the RNs from Phils were being put to work as soon as they were finished an orientation at their workplace. Not only that but that the Health District was paying their airfare, initial lodging and all licensing fees.

Were did you get the stat 500,000 RNs are out of work in Phils? My understanding is there is a critical shortage of nurses there as well.

Nursing shortage is global,

local impact frightful

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/dec/07/yehey/top_stories/20081207top1.html

Ginger's Mom, MSN, RN · Dec 8, 2008

Sounds like Canada has been go to you, why not support this country by getting your education there?

Is it really less money when you factor in air fares, time lost waiting for paper work being process, the chance you may not pass the nle or CRNE?

Silverdragon102, BSN · Dec 9, 2008

Geeze! You have given me much to consider!!!!!
I am from Alberta. I have read that we were importing RNs from Philippines to work here as we have such an acute skills shortage. My understanding was the RNs from Phils were being put to work as soon as they were finished an orientation at their workplace. Not only that but that the Health District was paying their airfare, initial lodging and all licensing fees.
Were did you get the stat 500,000 RNs are out of work in Phils? My understanding is there is a critical shortage of nurses there as well.
Nursing shortage is global,
local impact frightful
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/dec/07/yehey/top_stories/20081207top1.html

Just check out the threads here in the Philippine forum and you will see many post that they are unable to find work and gain nursing experience which is what a lot of countries require. We also have threads in the Canadian/international forum on nurses being fetched over from Philippines and when their training was evaluated it was put on par with PN and not the RN the employers had been expecting

I strongly suggest a good read in these forums

Ginger's Mom, MSN, RN · Dec 9, 2008

Now the Philippines wants hospitals( US and Canadian) who recruit nurses to pay the school a fee for training the nurse.....they are going to far !!!

Also the article mentions elective surgeries being canceled which is crazy, per diem nurses are being canceled. The article needs a fact checker.

Fiona59 · Dec 9, 2008

If the OP hasn't practised in six years, he would have to take a re-education course here to work as a LPN. In Alberta, you need to have over 1000 hours of employment over a three year period in order to maintain practice permit eligibility.

The nurses from the Phillipines were required to take an introduction to Cdn. nursing course and then had a long orientation period to get used to working here and utilizing skills they claimed were not their responsibilities back home.

suzanne4, RN · Dec 9, 2008

The RNS that were brought over to Alberta actually were considered only as being the equivalent of the LPN, not the RN. And they are no longer being brought over as they were before as well.

Please take the time to do some reading as well as be aware of the fact that without Philippine citizenship, you would not be permitted to even write the NLE, let alone work there as an RN. And Canada requires that one possess a local license, so then you would be applying for special consideration and adding much time onto your processing for working again in Canada.

I would go for training in Canada, but as was mentioned above, since you have been away from the field for so long, you no longer have active status for the LPN there as well.