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hi xasdas - 2nd courser here and I should say that I wont agree with the poster who said you must be prepared mentally, physically and all that. the better aspect should be flexibility and adaptability and you dont have to love nursing when you start...

heres the website http://su.edu.ph Silliman University is in Dumaguete City Philippines, there are a lot of Iranian and Korean students here but most of them are not into nursing. Cost of living for a foreigner wont be expensive(for a Filipino COL is...

Hi! I am 28 years old, goiing 29 next year(obviously), I am an engineering graduate and I plan to take up BSN as a second course, the reason I'm going for this is probably the same as yours...I'm planning to take up BSN in Silliman University(hopeful...

haha...its about public service...its been tought in nursing ethics...but the bottomline is...it will still be all about the money...LOL...anyways i am glad i went to nursing school...this way i can have a better chance of having a better life...

hello kagome...yes i go to silliman but i dont consider myself a true blue sillimanian...i am not from suhs...dgt is not that peaceful snymore as you would think...theres been a lot of robberies and murder cases piling up...as for the nursing educati...

when will he/she start? i go to Silliman Univaersity and we have a middle eastern student nurse there(i saw only one)...medium of instructoin is enlgish but some teachers do not speak very well...thats how i see it, but there are a ot of american bor...

what do you think ? Is this bill beneficial to future nurses and Filippino nurses for the US?

thanks, how about non re-takers? where do they register?

a friend of mine and me had some discussions today, and said that taking up nursing is risky right now specially with the Subic rape case issues, what are your views on this? IMO, this subic rape case issue won't harm the opportunity of Filipino nur...

good to hear that...thanks all

I hope our nurses here dont get affected by some lady who claims she's been raped by some US Marine! your view on tis? from People's Daily Online -- Rape case has difficult effect on Philippine-U.S. relations: U.S. ambassador ...

get a load of this!!! http://www.workpermit.com/news/2006_03_06/us/us_hires_foreign_filipino_nurses.htm US looks abroad for nurses, especially to Philippines

i just cheked out this site... http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061028/NEWS04/610280330/1018/NEWS damn thats good news! we could still catch up...=) thanks for the encouragement people!!! hey when you all get to the US, be Pino...

Top Nursing Schools in the Philippines! 1 UP-Manila 100% **2 St. Paul College-Iloilo 99.57% 3 Silliman University - Dumaguete City 98.39 4 West Visayas State University 97.06% 5 University of Santo Tomas Manila 96.67% 6 Saint Louis University - Bagui...

see yah then, you're 33 yo? im 28 yo, well...i guess im not the oldest 2nd courser after all, dont worry though about being the oldest dindog, i know some other pips who are aged 40 and up and go to nursing schools...=) peace!i havent heard of dr lan...

its never to late dindog, i have compiled a couple of articles in this site to keep my hopes high, read it and maybe it will also help keep your hopes high. http://kccx.5.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=9, read the links in the second post of this th...

ICT in demand? where? abroad? c'mon!?!?! if you were an ICT company in the US or in the UK, would you hire someone from the Philippines or India and bring them to the US or UK? uh uh!!! wrong move! I would outsource, with the hi speed information hig...

ey kagome, nope, sorry i am not from SU, I graduated at a state unive in Negros Occ. my mom who's also a nurse and is quite updated with nursing schools around the Philippines knows much about which schools are good...my 2 sisters went to St Paul's i...

good thing you thought of being a nurse while still young(25 is young, coz im 28). I think you can still work while studying, but the problem is, how will you be able to mange your time? It would work maybe during the first few months...after that yo...

hello callcen2RN - we're on the same page here!!! Where do you work? and how old are you? I know some schools in Cebu that offer good nursing ed for second coursers, for one there's Cebu Doctors University(formerly a College), I think they do accep...

i guess we have the same sentiments about those "crash" courses...hehehe... where did you take up your BSN? Is it in SU? Thanks for the reply FutureUSRN

ok, i know theres a 2 year program in one of the schools in Bacolod, never heard of the one year program though...i think it only applies to grads who have a medical degree say doctors...and i am an engineering grad. but I dont want to be the one to...