good training experience

[kathykaye]

hi.. i need some inputs about hospitals with good training/work experience... how long is the training period? how much? thanks... (paid training or volunteer or employment)

[devshop]

so honeyko247, u will be taking the june2007 NLE? mmm you have lots of time to review... i suggest start with your own books that you used during college. then weeks before your exam... scan again what you have read to refresh your mind with everything you've learned... review materials... i used fundamentals of nursing and med/surg of mam udan...

also, dont forget to pray! :) good luck to you!

[suzanne4, RN]

im "training" right now in a med/surg ward. it's been a month and i think it helped me be confident in dealing with patients and i learned more medications (which is the greatest part of it, i think). this training may not help that much as people say when i work abroad in the future but i cant deny that i have been better compared to how i was before this.

i was able to handle difficult patients, especially those who are doctors, or nurses... mmm i learned how to manage my time especially if there are lots of patients in our floor. i also learned how to organize my work... especially when administering medications to patients that are due to be given at the same time... :) stuffs like that..

Please change your thinking; having a nurse or a physician has a patient should never be an issue at all, who ever is your patient is your patient, and what their profession is should not influence your care for them.

Working on a nursing unit in the Philippines is exremely different from many other countries, such as Canada and the US. The biggest issue will be medications and idioms that are used in every day speech. Remember that most of the medications in the US will be called by a different trade name than what you learned in school. You will not have thirty patients in a hospital, so med passes will be much smaller.

Working on a unit there, where you are getting paid is one thing, but to do a training program that you must pay for and will not give you credit in the US is a complete waste of time, it will not be credited for anything here.

[suzanne4, RN]

ABSOLUTELY.. ..Most countries would not accept you if you dont have any experience in clinical setting:nono: ..

Sory but that is not correct............there are new grads that get positions overseas all of the time, even in the US. Unless you have two years of experience, it really will not affect anything.

[RNHawaii34]

absolutely.. ..most countries would not accept you if you dont have any experience in clinical setting:nono: ..

i was a new grad from the philippines, i never work there ever, but i got hired in two different places here in the usa even if i didn't have any past work experience, i even turned down other job offers because i already accepted a job offer from one hospital....it sucks when you have to turn a job, if only i could work in many places at the same, i would do it. there are a lot of hospitals in the us who would accept new grads, where they can be oriented ( and get paid at the same time) in their own facility.

[lawrence01]

And some don't even bother taking the NLE anymore if you don't have plans to practice locally and your goal is to be a US RN and this is regardless if you have a US Visa or not.