Nursing in ph

dishes, BSN, RN · Apr 8, 2017

Suggest you look for information on how to maintain your resident status on US government websites, it will tell you explicitly whether or not you can leave the US for extended periods of time.

Joyieh · Apr 8, 2017

Thank you so much. I will look into it. I hope I can find a solution for this

Trauma Columnist · Apr 8, 2017

Moved to Nursing in the Phils

Joyieh · Apr 8, 2017

Hello ma'am traumaRUS, I have just read on the site that if someone who have a permanent resident and want to keep the resident he/she would apply re-entry.is there someone who tried this here? Re-entry.

dishes, BSN, RN · Apr 8, 2017

@joyieh, immigration law is complex and questions regarding leaving the US for extended periods and applying for re-entry are better answered by an experienced US immigration lawyer than strangers on a social forum.

The only thing that forum members can comment on is, that if you want to practice nursing in the US, you would do better to study nursing in the US. The reasons to study nursing in the US are as follows; you will be exposed to a diverse patient demographic during clinical, you will be exposed to US technology, you will be much more likely to pass the NCLEX and you will not encounter difficulties with licensing issues that foreign educated nurses encounter.

Joyieh · Apr 8, 2017

Ok thanks ma'am dishes. Im only thinking about the tuition fees between the two coz in pH that is not very high compared to U.S.

Anyways my friend once told me that there's a hospital that they will help students to go on college and in return they will work in that hospital as a return of payment is that true? Texas

dishes, BSN, RN · Apr 8, 2017

The difference in tuition fees is the main reason that others have given as their reason to attend school in P.I. but you should add up all the extra costs that may be associated with obtaining a foreign education such as; flying back and forth every 4-6 months to maintain your residency status, extra costs associated with becoming licensed as a foreign educated nurse, extra costs associated with re-writing and studying for the NCLEX (there is high failure rate for foreign educated nurses compared to US education nurses), extra costs associated with proof of English proficiency. On top of the extra costs, you won't be familiar with the US technology, cultural expectations, communication skills or leadership skills and this may result in you being more inept and stressed than if you were an American educated new grad.

The job market in the US is saturated with many local grads, there is not currently a national shortage of nurses, some locations are short of nurses and may offer tuition reimbursement as incentive to work for them, but most of the time this offered to employees who are already employed at the hospital at the time of the education.

There are financially viable paths to become a RN in the US such as: become a CNA first, then while working as a CNA became a LPN, then while working as a LPN become a RN. It is a slower path but results in a seasoned nurse in the end and if their employer has a tuition reimbursement program it is cost effective.