Is there a distinction?

[juliuscesar1212]

I've help my sister go through the maze of licensing and immigration . My sister was a dentist. She took up nursing and graduated in 2005. She then concentrated on passing the different licensing exams while practicing dentistry part time. She has two kids and found it difficult to work full time as a nurse and at the same time finding time to do her reviews for the exams. She owned the dental clinic thats why it worked very well for her in terms of flexibility. In 2006, she took and passed the NLE exam, Nclex-Rn, IELTS and Visa Screen Certification. The fact that she lives in one of the smaller towns in the Philippines, nursing job is hard to find. Right now, she's contemplating working in Saudi Arabia to get the required experience.

After sending her resume' to pretty much all the hospitals in California, I've gotten a mix signal. Some hospitals welcome new US graduates(Accelerated Degree In Nursing, Associate Degree, Bachelor's Degree) and New graduates of foreign schools. They said they're more than willing to train my sister like any other new graduates of US nursing schools. But some hospitals would take new US graduates of Nursing Schools but won't take foreign nurses unless they have one year experience. Is there a distinction? Whats the rationale? Is there a reason why hospitals are willing to invest in training new US nursing graduates as oppose to foreign nurses without experience. Why is it possible for some hospitals to train both US graduates and foreign nurses with no experience?

At the end, she decided to sign a three year contract to this US based nursing registry. She would've preferred to get hired by hospitals. She wanted to start the immigration process now and be on line whenever the retrogression ends. She'll most likely get the nursing experience in Saudi Arabia while she's waiting for her petition to get process.

[suzanne4, RN]

Difference in the experience obtained during their clinicals. And the other issue she has is that there are now quite a few facilities that are refusing to take a second courser that was a physician in their previous life. There have been issues with nursing clinical skills, and the fact that many of them leave to get a medical residency when they can do that. The hospitals do not want to invest in someone that has no plans to stay at all.

That is why you got the response from many facilities in CA. It is not my opinion, it is just the way things are now there, and in other states. From one end of the country to the other side, and in between.