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  1. What is your opinion from your experience. Does the foreign educated nurse generally contribute positively or negatively to the U.S. nursing
  2. Contribution of the International Nurse

    i understand that each foreign-educated nurse costs a hospital about $20,000 to $22,000 delivered. could that money be better spent on americans and the american nurse education infrastructure? they...
  3. Does anyone know if there are States, dialysis companies or healthcare systems / hospitals that require a 4-year BSN to be a dislysis nurse? Same for certification; do any of the dialysis nursing...
  4. well, lady_avoidant and others, there is your
  5. Great response Tish -
  6. BSN Required for Dialysis Nursing?

    Thanks Tish and all for the
  7. Wow Kooky Korky did you hit the nail on the head about HR departments. I also agree with ESME 12, soon people will be getting hiring scores like credit scores. This entire employment / hiring...
  8. The volunteer nursing program filled the hospitals with no cost labor. Wage paying hiring programs were stopped because of volunteer nursing programs. Now they are going to have to pay for what they...
  9. absolutely, the most important thing about texas are the friendly people. i am from texas. the town i am from is my last name. i go home to texas several times a year, especially for various tha...
  10. New grad - think cost of living. Texas is a lot cheaper than NY. Also its about a different life style. Some peeps like 'them wide open spaces.' You don't know what beauty is until you see of herd...
  11. the problem with these tests are that they are purely subjective, not objective, also. these ''humanmetrics types" got their start with jung and briggs myers. i dated one of them in college for about...
  12. if i were a young man again, i would go to law school rather than get a useless mba. after graduation and passing the bar i would make my goal, before i die, to unionize the nursing profession in...
  13. We stopped placing nurses at Providence Hospitals especially in Washington state. For a recruiter to walk away from a paying client, they have to be pretty bad. We just got tired of hearing the...
  14. What can I say, this stuff can't be made up. Another with a loser HR department is Trinity now purchased by Lifecare. Nothing improved, it just got worse. I find it funny that many HR types will not...
  15. Is a 4-year BSN required to become a dialysis nurse in any state or with any dialysis
  16. Personality exams - another example of what happens when the patients take over the asylum. If I am coding I could care less if the attending nurse considers whether littering or violation of...
  17. You must, and I mean must, go to that interview. The lack of documents will likely generate a request for documents and best of all a 1-year extension to get the documents together and get a new...
  18. Too old for ICU?

    We have 29 healthcare clients; one of them has over 100 facilities. I have had HR types tell me some amazing things in confidence; things that could result, if known publically, in massive...
  19. The nurses on the Lefora blog are doing something about being abandoned. They are going to march on POEA in an attempt to get the hospitals and agencies that abandoned them banned from recruiting the...
  20. The nurses on the Lefora blog are doing something about being abandoned. They are going to march on POEA in an attempt to get the hospitals and agencies that abandoned them banned from recruiting the...
  21. good news if true. volunteer programs are absolutely exploitive and immoral; another example of physicians’ exploitation of nurses. if all nurses would refuse to work until such injustices as this...
  22. Hiring nurses in Philippines

    These hiring challenges for new grad RNs in the Philippines are the direct result of visa retrogression in the US. Before visa retrogression a lot of hospital experienced nurses were recruited and...