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Anyone who have worked,currently working or knows someone who works in this teaching hospital? I received a phone call from one of their recruiters today and he set me up with a phone interview with the director of the telemetry dept. there, i just s...

I am an RN and i have worked in an snf setting for almost 2 years and have some supevisory experience. Last month i resigned from the snf i was working for in granada hills ca here in LA county because i moved to another city which is farther and i d...

Hi neverending, Yeah finally i got hired by an SNF here in playa del rey ca where i live, as an RN 3-11 supervisor. Thanked God after 2mos. of looking i finally found one. I'm still on orientation right now, and so far so good, i like the people i wo...

Thanks for all your replies, i appreciate it. And Harleyhead sorry for the minor error in grammar. I was writing the post hastily earlier, didn't notice it, thanks anyway for the advice. Actually from my experience when i go to facilities to apply, t...

thanks suzanne! im excited at the same time nervous because i havent had clinical exposure for a while, my last was in 05 so i know its gonna be overwhelming at first for me, but its ok everything is like that in the beginning, i just have to adapt m...

Thank you for giving me this info i really appreciate it!!! I actually emailed the recruiter before i slept last night that i have to decline the job opportunity he's offering me at st. mary's, because i talked it out with my husband and i think we'r...

hi everyone this is one of my several posts here in allnurses, i am a filipina nurse living here in san francisco for almost a year now,came here thru fiance visa, ill be taking my exam on the 15th. The odds are really not in my favor because i finis...

Try to go to the site of TELECARE CORP. they have different programs/facilities across california. I was able to talk to one recruiter here in sf/bayarea where i live.

Hi i already took the exam last dec.15 and like you i also passed at 75. I prayed a lot too, i guess it really helped, where are you in cali? im here in sf, have you started looking for work already?

i am sort of a re-entry nurse, i finished my BS nursing in the philippines in 1990, didnt practice nursing for many years up until 2005 where i took a clinical refresher program in a big hospital in manila before i left for the US. I arrived here ear...

Yeah i will, thanks!

Hi i have been accepted in a nursing home/snf as a new grad or re-entry RN since i am a foreign nurse with not much of an experience and graduated a long time ago and this is my first job here in the US. I have a question with starting IV's, do nurs...

thanks everyone for your supportive replies and for giving info on IVs in LTC, i havent started yet, tomorrow i still have to do pre-employment physical then ill know when ill start, its a skilled nursing facility so they do have residents with IV.

yeah i would definitely take the position once they make the final offer after the pre-employment physical, even the pay they're offering is less than the other hospitals who want to consider me outside san francisco, at least i know i would be in a ...

Thanks suzanne for the info, i'll tell her that.

Thanks suzanne for the info, ill tell her that, but i think she knows that there's retrogression right now, that's why she said she's gonna time it when there are available visas already. Yeah i think she has to consider the time she has to spend in...

i have a friend who has a tourist visa and plans to take the NCLEX-RN exam in california once she has her ATT already(of course she has to time it when there are visas for nurses available). She has a nurse relative in CA who would help her to get i...

i havent heard of a nursing home directly hiring nurses from the philippines, usually the large chain nursing homes hire nurses from the philippines thru an affiliate staffing agency, like my friend she's now working in a nursing home in queens new y...

Thanks talino for your words of encouragement, its deeply appreciated. It helped lessen my fears. When i spoke to the DON during my interview, i think they really follow the length of the orientation program coz she said they will do a monthly assess...

you were right, i got a phone interview from two hospitals about 50-90 miles from san francisco and they want to consider me, i was lucky because a recruiter from a staffing agency found my resume at Monster.com and contacted me, set up the phone int...

On my own experience when i was still in the philippines and in that same situation as yours, i asked the help of a relative here in California who knew of a hospital which directly hires nurses in the philippines(they dont go thru agencies), my aunt...

why not try to plan to come here when you already have your ATT, then you can take the exam here and who knows if you pass you would be able to find a hospital who will be willing to sponsor you, that's what my friend did.

Thanks suzanne for your advice, actually i already know that it is tough to apply here in the bay area specially for foreign nurses without US experience, im just taking chances,but i also sent my resume to some hospitals in LA, i'm hoping i could ha...

i used suzannes nclex guide, my exam stopped at 75, passed it first try and i'm foreign-educated.

I am a nurse from the philippines, came here to the US early last year. Have'nt worked here yet but recently i passed the CA licensure exam on my first try. I finished nursing school in 1990 but never practiced up until 2005 when i took a 5-month cli...