Rep

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Rep specializes in Medical-Surgical.


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  1. Right now, I see myself spending the rest of my life here in the USA. It has been three years since we left the Philippines. My children have all adapted living here. Though they still speak Tagalog to us but they converse more in English among them...
  2. Happy Birthday Suzanne

    Suzanne, Happy Birthday!!!!:balloons::balloons::balloons::bdck: Rep
  3. Demand for Nurses Abroad

    I graduated nursing in 1991, back then it is one student to one patient, as students we did everything in terms of total care but be we were not allowed to do IVs, foleys or NGT. I worked for a year as a volunteer nurse, I didn't do foleys nor NGTs ...
  4. military nurse prior service

    Green card holders can join the US service anytime. But to be a military nurse, US citizenship is required. I am not sure on the Natioanal Guard.
  5. What do you mean by that? That we foreign nurses are second rate to US trained nurses. I am a foreign trained nurse that means I am Tonto and the US trained nurse is the Lone Ranger. Regardless a nurse is foreign or US trained, there is no differ...
  6. poor man's dignity

    Both parties are to blame, the man who is crazy enough to put a canister of his rectum. And the medical personnels who had a good laugh and video the procedure which is an invasion of privacy. Now, about talking about dignity, think first before...
  7. Military nursing

    Go to Camp Aguinaldo and look for building Bulwagan Valdez, that is the building where the Army Nurse Corop is located. The office is in the 2nd floor according to my sister. But the location may change since my sister resigned more than two years a...
  8. :bowingpur same here, i usually don't take my 15 minutes break especially if i have a full load. i rather spend it by completing my charts and i really:angryfire hate it when we are busy and people can still find time to go on a coffee break and le...
  9. Take courage! There is a shortage of working nurses here in the USA and your time will come even with the backlog ahead of you. Don't mind what other people say who does not agree of the current shortage. To tell you the truth, nursing here is st...
  10. It looks like that hospitals in our country are taking advantage of the nurses who are in active for many years and want to get back into hospitals. And for sure these hospitals will charge those "inactive nurses" for the training. I think it is a...
  11. Military nursing

    I will asked her how she applied. Then I will let you know.
  12. Rumors and other things

    Because people believe in rumors and to them it is the truth. A lot of nurses were waylaid in their plans to go to the USA because they were not well informed or in some cases relied on rumors.
  13. Wow, back in 1991 we were only 20,000+. And some of us got stucked because the US has stopped hiring nurses.
  14. yaya's or helpers in the country using our uniforms

    last halloween, i passed by the landlord's office to drop my check and the secretary asked me if i were dressing as a doctor. nope, i am a real nurse, halloween or not....
  15. Maybe if I can save a million dollars then I will go home and stay for good in the Philippines. I will tell you once you arrive here and work as a nurse, there is no turning back because life is good here than in the Philippines.