kendimann

Do you mean that the school and not the applicant is the one who will send all the requirements needed for the Application for Licensure in Vermont? or the applicant can still send the requirements as long as he obtains the transcript of records? what do you mean by this? do you mean that in order to receive ATT from Vermont, you have to work 400 hrs in the last 2 years or 900 hrs in the last 5 years as a REGISTERED NURSE? What if you are just a new graduate? Was your hospital experience as a student nurse enough for this requirement?

A leaking CSF is more life-threatening than a 2 inch laceration. Bleeding is NOT ALWAYS the priority. You should first analyze and know the situation before you decide for an anwer and not just stick that BLEEDING is ALWAYS the priority.

Why do they make it hard for us, BATCH 2006?? What rights do they have to interfere our plans and future?? As for myself, I studied four hard years at one of the best nursing schools here in the Philippines. I experienced so many hardships for me to understand all the concepts that i need to know about nursing. I have so many sleepless nights prior to that NLE last june 2006. Well, all of these paid off when i passed that exam. Then what...NOTHING!!! I do not understand why that dean from UP told the US not to hire Filipino nurses particularly those who are comming from BATCH 2006. She discriminated all of us. She does not have any right to do that. Why, is she that good? I bet that there are many nurses of batch 2006 who are far better than she is when she was our age. Then there are also people saying that the only way for us to take the NCLEX is if we go for a retake. Do you think its just that easy?? I can not understand why do we have to go for a retake. I do not know if these people (and you know who you are) know that a local license is not a requirement for you to take NCLEX. Do you know waht you are talking about in the first place?! :monkeydance: Well anyway, if US will not accept us. So be it. We really can not contest whatever their decision will be. But I might as well say that if US will stick to their decision, it will become a lose-lose situation for both of us - we will not earn $20-40/hour but US will also lose 17,000 Filipino nurses. Yes different nationalities are now taking up nursing but for me, Filipinos are still the best caregivers, the most skilled and the most competent nurses in the world. Maybe some will agree but of course some may not. I don't care what you'll say but I am going to stick with it. I know this because I experienced the training that one of the best college of nursing gives to their students. Let me just add that if US will not really give us a chance then let us just serve our countrymen. After all, nursing is not really about money. Its about the hapiness that you feel when you serve those people who are in need for our care. :wink2: The only thing that i want to say to those mushroom schools and the people who are involve in that leakage issue, SHAME on you. You ruined the lives of BATCH 2006 (I am talking only to those who did not benefit from that leakage) and most especially you ruined the integrity of the profession that I love. To mind you, I am not angry. I just feel very...very...very.. disappointed to what is happening right now. All of us our hangin on the air and just could not make our next move. So, I am just speaking out loud.

I do not have any hospital experience as a RN but as a SN, I have so many. Anyway, can any hospital in the US accept me evn if I only have a tourist visa, a walk-in applicant and do not have any hospital experience?

OK..with all these talks,,,tell me, what are we NLE June 2006 takers suppose to do?!?!?! What will happen to us? Is America still going to accept us?! After four hard years of studying every concept that we need to know about nursing, it looks like that our hardships are going to put to waste!!!

I am very frustrated to see on some of the threads here that states in the US do not issue ATT to Filipino nurses who passed their application for licensure after the June 2006 NLE here in the Philippines. Why is that so? How long will it last? How will us, Filipino nurses know that they are already issuing ATT? Are we allowed to pass our application for licensure anytime we want or should we wait until the leakage issue is over? I do not know why this is happening. As far as i know, NCLEX does not require you to be a RN in your country before you could take the exam (except for the CGFNS state of course). I am really confused and I really do not know what to do. Please help us. I know that I am not the only one who have all these concerns.