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Hi guys! I need help. I am a new registered nurse. Has anyone know a hospital that is hiring for staff nurse or a hospital that has training for new graduate nurses this feb or march 2008? I have inquired in so many hospitals but I had a hard time looking for one. Thank you very much. :balloons:

Specializes in Critical Care.

Everyone is already taking advantage of the Nurses current situation

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Specializes in Maternal and Child Health.

*Sigh* The newly licensed nurses are having a hard time to get employed as a staff nurse what more if you graduated 3 years ago and have no beside nursing experience like me. :o Anyway, I hope we get hired before the release of the June 2008 NLE passers. :D

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Specializes in Critical Care.
*Sigh* The newly licensed nurses are having a hard time to get employed as a staff nurse what more if you graduated 3 years ago and have no beside nursing experience like me. :o Anyway, I hope we get hired before the release of the June 2008 NLE passers. :D

3 years with no bedside experience? how come?

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Specializes in Maternal and Child Health.
3 years with no bedside experience? how come?

After graduation I worked as a medical editor and enjoyed my job so my nursing profession was put aside. But after sometime, I wasn't happy with my desk job anymore. I think I can do more than sitting at the computer editing stuff. So I finally decided to be a nurse.

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I'm pertaining working in Canada in their LTC facility. Registered Nurses will have be in charge in the team consist of a Licensed practical Nurse and a Caregiver. So the Registered Nurses mainly does is assess the patient if it needs check up with a doctor and all other duties are taken by the LPN's and the Caregivers.

I am very aware of what goes on in the world of LTC. The issue once again is that it is not going to help with getting a job in a hospital later on if that is what you want. And you are going to be over more than one LPN, chances are that you are going to be responsible for about 30 to 60 patients.

What you are speaking of is what we see in the hospital, but not in LTC.

Canada is no different from the US in this regard.

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working as a Regisrtered Nurse Suzanne.

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working as a Regisrtered Nurse Suzanne.

I understand working as an RN, but that does not change what I have been posting. You are going to be legally responsible for up to 60 patients per shift, and you cannot start to work as an RN and get paid as one until the boards are passed and you are issued a license. Does not matter what anyone promises, but this is in fact what happens.

And the time spent working not in the licensed role of the RN does not count as RN experience and the work in the LTC is also not counted as hospital experience later on.

You do not instantly become an RN in their standards as soon as you arrive there and the exam is only given three times per year.

We are seeing all types of promises being made, but none that are keeping them.

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Specializes in Theatres, Scrub/Scout.

i graduated last March 2007, took NLE on June 2007 & passed.

i really had a hard time applying for a job as a staff nurse then so i decided to take NCLEX-RN right away. Now that i am an NCLEX passer, i am still applying for a position as a staff nurse because the agency that called me up upon passing nclex requires at least 6 months of clinical experience, trainings are even counted. however, i still haven't landed on a staff nurse job...

whew! tough one!

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i graduated last March 2007, took NLE on June 2007 & passed.

i really had a hard time applying for a job as a staff nurse then so i decided to take NCLEX-RN right away. Now that i am an NCLEX passer, i am still applying for a position as a staff nurse because the agency that called me up upon passing nclex requires at least 6 months of clinical experience, trainings are even counted. however, i still haven't landed on a staff nurse job...

whew! tough one!

Not to intentionally add to your problem,besides from that even those who have 6mos or more experience are still unable to go to US due to retrogression which they say will be lifted in 5 years or so. :yawn:

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Not to intentionally add to your problem,besides from that even those who have 6mos or more experience are still unable to go to US due to retrogression which they say will be lifted in 5 years or so. :yawn:

No one here has ever mentioned the retrogression be lifted in five years, you are taking things out of context. The retrogression is in place because there are many more applicants than there are visas available per year. We have just come up with five years as being the earliest chance that one will have at a visa based on just a quick estimate of the numbers that are waiting that already have pending petitions. Add into it the exponential increase in the grads as well as students in the Philippines right now and that wait for a chance at a visa could easily climb to ten years.

Passing of the NCLEX exam and even finding an employer to petition a nurse definitely does not guarantee that one will actually get a visa. We are also expecting the requirements to become much tighter and the US to require two years of actual work experience as many other countries are doing now. They are going to have to use some type of weeding tool and this makes the most sense. It also requires that one take and pass the NLE exam, as was the requirement until a few years ago when the CGFNS exam was required by all.

To be going into nursing now to use as a stepping stone to get to the US is just not going to be working for many. One needs to consider going to another country to get experience as an RN if they truly want to be able to work in the US; especially if they are not already in the petitioning process now.

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yeah i'm aware that retrogression will take lot of years to be lifted..I've read repetitive times it was mentioned in forums here.

oh i said five years or so..meaning five or more years...^_^

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yeah i'm aware that retrogression will take lot of years to be lifted..I've read repetitive times it was mentioned in forums here.

oh i said five years or so..meaning five or more years...^_^

And you are missing the point, there has never been mention of the retrogression being lifted in five years. The entire reason for the retrogression is that there are many more applicants than there are visas available per year. This is why we keep saying that someone is only going to have a chance at a visa, it is no longer guaranteed by any shape or form. Add into it the drastic increase in the number of grads coming out of the Philippines, and the chances are going to get slimmer and slimmer.

We have never said that is was going to be lifted in five years, there are many more nurses waiting for visas already than the 10,000 per year for your country, and that includes children and spouses.

Getting a chance at a visa if one is not already far down the line with the petitioning process is going to be about five years minimum, but nothing about retrogression being lifted. We have never had unlimited visas in the US and never will.

Just wanted to make myself very clear on this and for others reading.

Getting a chance at a visa and lifting of the retrogression are two very distinct and different things.

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