Phoenix With Ogp

english_nurse · Feb 27, 2006

I really dont know what to suggest but i wouldnt worry too much

some of the people posting on here (myself included) have just had a bad time really however if you havnt passed nclex yet i would consider your postition re: the contract. If you think you are able to do it by yourself then i would think long and hard about it.

There are a few on here who have been delayed, we thought this was due to Vermont being slow to process, what we actually now think is that we have been told a few porkie pies, I believe that my I140 part has only recently been filed, and not in August like OGP told me. Yes i agree i may be barking up the wrong tree there, but it all seems very strange, especially as we know they have been inundated with backlogs themselves due to the retrogression being lifted.

OGP do put pressure on you to go to areas which you would not consider, be firm where that is concerned, dont make a descision under pressure, there are plenty of jobs out there, it is up to them to find you a job, you are gold dust to them, they are not doing you a favor it is the other way around!! but i have found that they have made me feel that I should be grateful for what they are doing for me!!! :rotfl:

Of course all the above might just be paranoia brought on by waiting!

Today i am going to try another tactic to get to the bottom of it all, watch this space......

topscot · Feb 27, 2006

I really dont know what to suggest but i wouldnt worry too much
some of the people posting on here (myself included) have just had a bad time really however if you havnt passed nclex yet i would consider your postition re: the contract. If you think you are able to do it by yourself then i would think long and hard about it.
There are a few on here who have been delayed, we thought this was due to Vermont being slow to process, what we actually now think is that we have been told a few porkie pies, I believe that my I140 part has only recently been filed, and not in August like OGP told me. Yes i agree i may be barking up the wrong tree there, but it all seems very strange, especially as we know they have been inundated with backlogs themselves due to the retrogression being lifted.
OGP do put pressure on you to go to areas which you would not consider, be firm where that is concerned, dont make a descision under pressure, there are plenty of jobs out there, it is up to them to find you a job, you are gold dust to them, they are not doing you a favor it is the other way around!! but i have found that they have made me feel that I should be grateful for what they are doing for me!!! :rotfl:
Of course all the above might just be paranoia brought on by waiting!
Today i am going to try another tactic to get to the bottom of it all, watch this space......

it may well be paranoia but ogp say or do nothing to put our minds at rest

english_nurse · Feb 27, 2006

it may well be paranoia but ogp say or do nothing to put our minds at rest

thats the problem, i think we thought that they had been honest in the first place we wouldnt be trying to find all these conspiracy theories. :banghead:

madwife2002, BSN, RN · Feb 27, 2006

i got a little scared while reading this discussion. so if we've already signed on with OPG, what do you suggest we do to look out for ourselves so to make life easier?

I notice you are already in US so if you are with OGP then how can they help you from here?

english_nurse · Feb 27, 2006

well.... i didnt get anywhere!!!

I tried to contact vermont myself, minus reciept number and got nothing! :banghead:

Im not suprised really but at least i tried :smackingf

dunno what to do next

am stumped!

fakemusician · Feb 27, 2006

I notice you are already in US so if you are with OGP then how can they help you from here?

i stayed after graduating from nursing school here, but my hospital wouldn't help me get residency (they didnt' know what to do) and my student visa was running out so i signed on with OPG. i am now waiting for my status to be adjusted.

madwife2002, BSN, RN · Feb 27, 2006

i stayed after graduating from nursing school here, but my hospital wouldn't help me get residency (they didnt' know what to do) and my student visa was running out so i signed on with OPG. i am now waiting for my status to be adjusted.

That is a tough call, especially as you could have really gone it alone, easier. How come you trained here in the US?

plato353 · Feb 27, 2006

common gyus i believe in a free market where people have the ability to choose where they want to be working and living. OGP is not the messiah when it comes to placing nurses in the USA.there are many that could be touting for your business/services

take a trip to Corpus Cristi hosp in Texas say you are from the UK and you have passsed your NCLEX you might end up with a job offer.

registered nurses in the USA are seen as commodities.you are able to negotiate terms with an employer not the other way round over here.

yes i AM A uk nurse form south african since 1997. my agency promised me and other hopefull nurses the moon :balloons:and stars when we came here in 1997.

we just exploited :crying2:by our respective agencies and moving to the USA is our next and definite step.

i have left the nhs last year could not stand it.

i would say however that moving abroad you have to do research and find out what it is like by networking.

look around in your wards and departments at the amount of uk nurses leaving for australia.if was so bad why is it that uk nurses over there are asking there mates over here to move out there by networking

the same apply for the USA.

having been bitten once i would not like to make the same mistake again and thats why i say OGP is sucks because i managed to get out of a contract with them costed my 100 quid.try and do that now you willl end paying 3500 pounds if not more

so bigup to freedom of choice and being informed

Owain Glyndwr · Feb 27, 2006

common gyus i believe in a free market where people have the ability to choose where they want to be working and living. OGP is not the messiah when it comes to placing nurses in the USA.

Whilst not wishing to condone OGP practice in the slightest and I have posted this elsewhere previously, surely OGP are only doing what they are being hired (contracted) to do by the Healthcare companies in the US - get staff for them?

OGP will demand and get big bucks per nurse from Healthcare companies in difficult to recruit areas (geographically as well as clinically) and will do what they can to fulfil the contract and their obligations to their hirer and, in return, make money/boost their profits. That's what they do. They are a business.

If I ran a recruitment business and a Healthcare company said to me 'we want you to find 50 RNs for us every six months and we will pay you $15000+ per nurse', I would be putting every effort into this nice little earner and 'encouraging' :saint: nurses to go to whatever part of the US that Healthcare company is situated in regardless of where the nurse wanted to go originally. Doing that in a round about way by not exactly telling the nurse the complete truth about where they are going to be placed until they are a week away from landing on US soil is, in my book, ever so slightly unethical. Interestingly, their website states that they 'will find the perfect job in the region of your choice'.

OGP can hardly be going wrong when they are 'by far the largest and most experienced international healthcare staffing solutions group in the United States' and AMN Healthcare, their parent company, 'has an annual revenue of $630 million (profits are up by 44% this quarter) and has more than 6,200 staffers on assignment (90% nurses). More than 95% of temporary assignments for its 6,000-plus clients are at acute-care hospitals in the U.S'

Cheers

OG

cariad · Feb 28, 2006

well ogp might suck for some of you,,,,,,,but here i am in the usa. i came with ogp, i worked my 18 months contract earning lots of money along the way. i am now a free agent and havent regretted once having come the way that i did. if it doesnt suit some of you on this thread.......ok, as someone said its a free choice and we dont all think that ogp sucks!

come by yourself, if thats your choice, but stop slagging nurses who have come the ogp way and are happy with them. because thats our choice.....and a free one at that!

fakemusician · Feb 28, 2006

it's really a long story. in short, i graduated from high school, took a shot at the universtiy here and it all worked out. i didn't start off in nursing but changed my major half way through. never though visa would be an issue, and the hospital acted like they were going to help me with it until 2 months before my visa runs out then telling me they couldnt' spounsor the visa. i hired an attoney but couldnt' get anything out of them, so i thought, forget about this. i called american mobile to see if there's anything they can do for me (since i've wanted to travel) and they referred me to OPG. they were able to get the application in before my visa expired so now it's a waiting game.

i call it my manditory vacation

although now i am getting a little bit anxious.....

That is a tough call, especially as you could have really gone it alone, easier. How come you trained here in the US?

english_nurse · Feb 28, 2006

well ogp might suck for some of you,,,,,,,but here i am in the usa. i came with ogp, i worked my 18 months contract earning lots of money along the way. i am now a free agent and havent regretted once having come the way that i did. if it doesnt suit some of you on this thread.......ok, as someone said its a free choice and we dont all think that ogp sucks!
come by yourself, if thats your choice, but stop slagging nurses who have come the ogp way and are happy with them. because thats our choice.....and a free one at that!

at the end of the day they are a tool that we use to enable us to obtain our greencards and travel to the usa, yes at the moment, there are a few of us who feel disheartened with what is going on, however we have been given reassurances this will be sorted out soon, so, we have to be content with that really. :uhoh3:

at the end of the day they are not a charity who place us out of the kindness of their hearts, they do run a buisiness, and if they have a contract to fill they will do their best to fill it.

i dont think that they are rubbish, i think they may have lied to some of us here, unfortunately it tends to sour the whole experiance then, especially as all we can do is wait wait wait, which we are getting tired of especially as we have been given no clear information about what is going on.

peoples experiance of their journey to the usa with ogp are all different, im sure when this bit has passed by, the bad memories will fade into the distance and we all wont feel so bad!