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I read your other post about wanting to get into active nursing. I was inspired with that. You should go for it, you'll never know how many patients under your care will be blessed if you wont. Then I've read your very brave revelation here, I was doubly inspired. No, triple inspired...I'm humbled...there's so many things to learn from your experience...I really admire your courage to stand up after that great storm in your life...God has great purposes for you knowing He has bestowed you with so much talent and wit, and one of it, obviously, is this- to serve as an encouragement to us. Thank you so much! Trials work for us, and not against us. Humble yourself before the Lord, and HE WILL LIFT YOU UP. God bless your plans and efforts!

Really...? I felt goosebumps reading this. That must be a world upon that doctor's shoulders. So like in a movie! Youre right, too bad and so sad that justice sometimes live up to its "blind" icon - a lady holding a pan of weight in her hand, blindfolded.

really tragic..thanks for posting this... Like what Liza hoped to happen, Alejandro should have stand up for what he believed and not accept the deal. They could have had a chance with the jury. It's just as good as admitting he's guilty...but then he's the one who will be in jail so typical of being human, he should save himself too. Solving - or trying to solve - big time cases like Lucas' takes a lot of messy processes and involves amazing medical experts and consumes a great deal of time and money...but when you leave everything to the Lord, even when youre still here on earth, you'll have the answer to your questions that only your heart can know... "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" 2 Corinthians 4:17

Eeww..gross, hehehe I want to be a kellycurve clamped on a vein

Starting IV especially in babies! It's challenging

I suspect that the US may make it mandatory in the near future to require those that attended school in PI be required to pass the NLE. It actually was required back when the CGFNS exam was required. And you will probably see it again, if not just as a weeding out exam. I agree with this presumption. Since the sprouting of nurses here in our country who wants to work abroad is alarming, it wont be too far that this will happen. And should this happen, there would be again perhaps, an 'uprising' on the part of pre-grad nurses complaining of the mandate since their brains are programmed that after marching up the stage, they could march straight to NCLEX, bypassing NLE. June 2006 NLE scam should have been already a lesson for these nurse wannabes...In their want for an easy pass, a total opposite result happened. Worse, along their fall, they drag everybody else with them. It's not that we (older, experienced nurses) want these new grads to take the hard way (as what's supposed to be if you have the heart for NURSING). It's for their own good and advantage if they pass the local board exam. Financial need is out of the question here because if they can afford NCLEX, why not NLE? Besides, if they wanted SO MUCH to become a nurse, for sure they would look forward to tending patients (in their hometown or wherever as long as in the Philippines first) after getting a license. Sad its no longer the case here mostly. I hope we Filipino nurses shouldn't see our degree only as a vehicle to go to other countries, but mainly as our authority to perform by heart as modern Florence Nightingales or Good Samaritans of our time, which is far more rewarding than anything else. Sure, who doesn't need money? My point is, let's get it nurses (Filipino) in a more deserving way.

For sure I will. thanks a lot!

yeah we should check our post office really bec they sometimes "dont"...You sent them a letter? Should I do the same though I sent them email already? Thank you.

I checked NSCBN myself and....thank God! NCLEX is here now in the Philippines! Well, those who took the exam already wouldn't regret either since HK (and others where nclex testing is offered) is such a nice place! Let's all study harder...God has already made it easier for us! "All praise to Him, who reigns above..."

Hi again, dcraneses...how did long did it took 'til you got your requested fingerprint card from them? was it sent via snail mail or fast track? Thanks.

Thanks to you! I already sent an email to this address maybe 3 weeks ago...asking pertinent question re IL BON application and a request for fingerprint card. I did got a reply that my message hs been forwarded to a certain department to be filled (or filed, typo error probably). Was wondering if I could get the card either from them or in the embassy.

Is there any requirement in getting a fingerprint card (IL BON) for my nclex application in the US embassy? My nurse friend in Manila offers to get it for me, she's asking in what department will she get it. Thanks ahead, a lot.

AMEN! Waiting is hard but it develops in us a great character. Most of all, what's the best time but the Lord's? There's so much we can do while we wait; Aside from preparations (exams, applications, hospital experiences) , there's a job that is always hungry for workers: God's ministry. It has no vacancy, doing it will keep our minds and hearts occupied on something that will make our accounts in heaven higher and higher...for one of the greatest principles in life is, "SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ALL THESE THINGS WILL BE ADDED UNTO YOU." Matthew 6:33 If we do God's business first, He will take care of our business, too! In no time, we'll just realize it's boarding time to get to our destination.

My primary reason was the uniform. I love it. Then my cousin encouraged me get the said profession as he also took the same; He with his goal to work in foreign countries, I with my desire to wear those uniforms and inject. But when I really got hold of the concept of nursing during my college years, my shallow reason (loving its uniform) mutate into more profound ones. Like feeling good when you insert an IV once (not twice or thrice) to a baby's veins, feeling relieved that your CPR was a success, feeling satisfied when you alleviate the patient's worries regarding her/his operation, feeling excited as you slap instruments on a surgeon's palm, feeling worthy when getting positive responses after conducting health teaching to certain groups, feeling useful when family and neighbors run to you for aid or advise about their ailments, and more... Nursing profession, among others, is simply beyond description...It can only be fully recognized after your healing touch and kind words has reached a patient's soul. God bless all nurses worldwide!

sorry youre confused, Trudy. Anyway, let's just say, this is a huge misunderstanding of a minute subject... God bless.