PN for immigrant help

RNHawaii34 · Jun 13, 2008

i have a husband who is american citizen..he is petitioning me to go to america but he want me to take pn here in philippines while waiting for visa
am i allowed to work there in america after i graduated as lpn or just waste of time???am i better take bsn and continue it abroad after my visa arrived??
pls help coz i dont want to waste time and money too...

take your bsn in the philippines. if you graduate before your visa arrives that is perfect. do not however, take lpn class in the philippines, because it will not be as good as when you have bsn, because you can still take the lpn exam if you are a bsn degree holder. or, if your visa arrives sooner, then you can go ahead and take the lpn class when you here in the usa. otherwise, pls. don't take the lpn class.

lenjoy03, RN · Jun 19, 2008

i have a husband who is american citizen..he is petitioning me to go to america but he want me to take PN here in Philippines while waiting for visa
Am i allowed to work there in america after i graduated as LPN or just waste of time???am i better take BSN and continue it abroad after my visa arrived??
pls help coz i dont want to waste time and money too...

Here we go again... Have it ever occured to you that Philippines doesn't recognize LPN? Many schools offer this course but it doesn't mean that this is recognized by PRC. And LPN is consired an unskilled worker so you'll be having a hard time getting a visa. Why not take BSN instead? Petitioining will really take time... I know friends who got their greencard 5-10 years after they were petitioned. If this course is not recognized in our own country, why on earth would the US recognized it?

And if ever you really want to take up PN, ask yourself what work you'll have after it. Many nurses are unemployed nowadays. Hospitals will hire RN instead of PN cause RN can do the PN's work while PNs can't do the RNs work. If they wont hire you, who will? If they wont hire you, how are you going to have work experience?

suzanne4, RN · Jun 19, 2008

If being petitioned by a spouse that is an American citizen, then the wait is not that long.

But be aware that getting licensed in the US may not be that easy for you to do. Your own government does not even recognize the training, so why should other countries do so?

Daly City RN · Jun 24, 2008

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In my previous posts in this forum I wrote that we were going to phase out the LVN's in our huge medical center located here in the San Francisco Bay Area by the year 2010. I wrote that the LVN's (LPN in other states) would no longer be in our in-patient units and would be given jobs in other departments in two year's time. Our hospital has stopped hiring new LVN's altogether about 3-4 years ago.

I was the charge nurse one night last week and as part of my duty was to check the following shift's staffing. I noticed that the computerized schedule for July 2008 has been finalized and printed and I was surprised to see that all of the the names of the LVN's in our unit are no longer in the July schedule. I quickly found out that all the other units in the whole hospital will no longer have LVN's by July 2008 as well. Long story short, the hospital management has decided to re-assign all of our LVN's from the in-patient units to other departments this year rather than wait till the year 2010.

We are somewhat saddened because we will miss some of the good LVN's, but at the same time this action will make the work of the RN's in our hospital that much lighter because the RN's will no longer be burdened with the extra responsibilities of "covering" for the LVN's own patients. With the ever rising patient acuity, the RN's are most of the time too busy to safely cover their partner LVN's assigned patients. Many of our LVN's are in RN school anyway so we expect many of the top LVN's in our hospital to come back as full-pledged RN's someday soon.

The impact of this is that our huge hospital that used to hire and employ many LVN's in the past has joined many other acute care hospitals here in the SF Bay Area in switching to an all-RN staffing. I do believe that many other hospitals located in large urban areas of the U.S.A. will do the same as the medical field is becoming more and more complicated and highly technical.

The LVN's will have fewer and fewer job opportunities. To make matters worse, there is no shortage of LVN's in America. This is not good news for those LPN students currently enrolled in LPN schools in the Philippines, and for any LVN/LPN anywhere for that matter.

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