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I am leading a project of palliative care in ICU now, and early implementation of palliative care for ICU patients are strongly encouraged due to uncertain outcome of recovery. After the pilot project, we found early implementation of palliative care...

My roommate works in a government funded LTC facility, and the ratio of RN and resident is 1:12 with the support of RCAs and volunteers. She is at the top of level 1 with more than 300 hrs vos and 1000 hrs of sick time. I work at level 3 trauma cent...

BC might be a good choice for you. CLPNBC authorizes BCIT for credential assessment, ICES, and the process timeframe is reasonable for me which was within a month according to my personal experience. You can check detail here http://www.clpnbc.org/in...

OPT is 12 months per person (combining BS, MS, and PhD). You can postpond your graduate to spring, then apply H1B in April. While you are waiting H1B approval, you are allowed to work under OPT.

I worked in both countries for a while. When I worked in the States, the currency exchange rate was USD:CND = 0.6:1. Although I made $25/hr in the States, it's actually $42/hr back to Canada. Meanwhile, US employers pay differently based on care sett...

I have a lot of friends from India and South Africa who wanna work in US but have no access to get in. I have helped two of them got their RN license and now working in my hospital. Of course, hospital gave me a referring reward for this. I wonder, c...

the state dept officially stated that the schedule a numbers (green card quota for rn & pt) will expire probably in october. there is a general consensus among employers and recruiters that additional visas will be made available maybe within 6 m...

i wrote nm bon several weeks ago. the officer said ssn is required to renew rn license.

Hi msrclim, Did AZ BON issue you a hard copy of RN License without SSN? Or you already have had SSN before you applied it?

Nightngale, It depends on positions. But, regularly, It's close in Los Angeles area.

Nightngale, My international nurses don't contract with me. They contract with hospital directly. I am more like a head-hunter, not a staffing agent.

HarryHK, The main reason I started my business was tax purpose. I got some referral bonus from my international friends but I didn't have any idea for tax plan until I filed tax return last year. Then my neighbor, who is a CPA, suggested me to start ...

Suzanne, You are right! Actually I have a contracted ESL school, which provides the courses of oral speaking (medical communication and accent) and writing (charting) to my international nurses. They were here on F1 Visa to begin with.

To Suzanne, Taiwan is my nationality, not where I'm located. As in my first post, I work for a hospital in the States that how I help international nurses relocate. I was getting referral bonus from my hospital before. It's why I planed to start a Nu...

Dear all, Thank you for the suggestions. Actually, I've started a Corp. for a while and recruited 6 international RNs already. 4 of them have been in the States and will start to work after getting EAD card. 2 of them will come to the States through ...

My friend is a foreign-educated nurse and plan to apply MSN Program in Emory U. I am helping her for the application of RN license in Georgia, cause Emory U. requires Goergia RN License before end of the first semester. We have several questions rega...

Thank you, Suzanne4. You are very nice :) . My friend has a ITIN. We wonder could she use ITIN instead of SSN. It's difficult to get a SSN now and Emory U. doesn't offer any in-campus job. My friend has got her Certification Program from CGFNS. I was...

Tweety, I did check Georgia BON website https://allnurses.com/jump.cgi?ID=1222 word by word, but couldn't find any email address regarding BON. Do you have particular person/email for Georgia BON?

Thank you Suzanne4. I'll post it under the International Forum.

My friend is a foreign-educated nurse and plan to apply MSN Program in Emery U. I am helping her for the application of RN license in Georgia. We have several questions regarding the RN license application and try to find out the email address of Geo...

suzanne4 is right. I passed initial assessment from CRNBC and healthmatchbc.org found me an employer. My employer did the paper work for my temporary RN license and work permit. The only thing I can do now is wait for my work permit. I will take CRNE...

Hi suzanne4, what you mean proper legal channels? And where can I find related information?

I am a US-trained RN. I just received my assessment letter from CRNBC and looking for possible employer who can offer me temporary RN license. I like ICU and challenge patients, but not bxxch working environment. Has anyone heard about Vancouver Gen...

mudiwa, the initial assessment took me around 3 months. All my official documents were mailed to CRNBC within 3 weeks, but they wouldn't start the assessment until 9 weeks after they billed me. AFTER they started my assessment, CRNBC requested a work...

Paprikat, I appreciate all your information. I check on Internet there are several apts around VHG , which request $750-850/mo. I think if I can get $4000/mo from my job, the rent is ok for me. There's one thing very interesting. Many families rent t...