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What is your opinion from your experience. Does the foreign educated nurse generally contribute positively or negatively to the U.S. nursing profession?

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 do sign 3-year non-cancelable contracts, so i gues...

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 certificates require a 4-year BSN? Thank you.

well, lady_avoidant and others, there is your answer.

Great response Tish - Thanks!

Thanks Tish and all for the responses.

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 business is getting more Orwellian daily. But always rem...

Be hired and be paid . . .

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 were getting for free for so many years. Young nur...

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 meetings and the people are very open and friendly –...

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 of Longhorns or Angus moseying down to the water ...

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 2-weeks. she was into talking about ''it.'' her in...

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 america and put an end to a lot of the c rapola that ...

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 horrible feedback from the nurses, therapists and med te...

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 speak to a recruiter - they hide behind voice mail...

Is a 4-year BSN required to become a dialysis nurse in any state or with any dialysis company?

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 handicap parking a worse offense against mankind. Scott a...

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 interview. I imagine that you are at least missing your...

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 litigation. But I have never heard of age being a cut off t...

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 Philippines forever.

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 Philippines forever.

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 are ended, this kind of abuse would end. american nur...

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 deployed to the States. Now they are not leaving th...