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To all Filipino nurses working in the USA, Greetings of Peace! I am a nursing student currently doing my undergraduate nursing research study. I am required to contact all possible Filipino nurses working in the USA to hear their views regarding the effect of Philippine nursing licensure examination leakage scandal last June 2006. I have designed an online questionnaire for the respondents to fill-up using their internet connection. Moreover, initial chapters of my research paper were presented online for your perusal. I would like to guarantee that all the informations given will be treated with utmost confidentiality and will be utilized only for the research purpose. If you are not comfortable giving away your personal informations, please don't do. There are sensitive items in the questionnaire that are made optional; either your provide it or not is up to you. Here are the web links: Initial Chapters of the Research Paper Online QuestionnaireAgain, I am requesting for your help. If you are a Filipino nurse working in a particular state in US, please sign-up the form as the respondent of this study. If you know someone working in that state or in other states, please don't hesitate to forward this message. Your participation is vital to the success of this undertaking. Thank you and more power! Sincerely, mmpv

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Dear Suzanne, Yeah you said it right. Can I change my topic title?

Dear Suzanne, Regarding the specifics of my nursing research is stated on the Statement of the Problem of my initial nursing research paper. The webpage is already given and all the respondents have to do is to go to that webpage and peruse its contents. Everything is stated there. These research paper was started last year and only after the preliminary oral defense that I made contact with the respondents. I formulated the questionnaire last May of 2007 and it only generated minimal responses. I understand because during that time, some sensitive items are not edited and they might have taken it as a scam. I was scheduled to defend the final morificecript by February and I am kind of rushing my data gathering because I feel I am running out of time. I don't know what more needs to be done just to persuade them that this undertaking is legitimate.

Oh I almost forgot Suzanne....By the way I am a bit rushing the data gathering because it was suppose to end last December, and due to minimal response I received so far, I extended it until the end of this month. I hope I can have sufficient responses by then. Part of the reasons was due to my habit of procrastination. Had I only revised and made these changes earlier, I would be able to get the desired sample size by now. MMPV

Dear Suzanne, I appreciate your informing me. I am quite aware about the scams on the net and I find it hard to convince the folks about the sincerity of my intention. Previously, I made contact with lots of Filipino nurses working in the states through the email address they posted on their organization's websites. Unfortunately, I got nothing for a reply. So I decided to make an online version of my thesis paper so they can peruse its contents and decide whether they will participate or not, although on my part I wish so hard they would. I even modify my online questionnaire so that sensitive items like email addresses and license numbers will be optional. They can have it answered or not, it's entirely up to their discretion. I made these moves just to ensure their privacy and security. I don't have any choice because I am very eager to pursue this study and I have no way of contacting my target respondents other that forum like this and their official websites. when I heard from Laurence that he liked my research and that he helped me vouched for the continuity of this post in your website, I was glad enough that somehow my effort has been appreciated. Scams are only good if email addresses of the people involved is revealed. This is why I consider this issue and made optional the email address portion of my questionnaire. What is important now to me is to hear from the respondents their views of the other questions. I hope I shed some light into this matter and hoping that any concerned people here can help me in the best way they can because I know and I believe that these types of studies benefits a lot of people and that doing a research on the net can be worth the challenge. Thank you in advance. Sincerely, MMPV

I made optional some sensitive items on the questionnaire. I am calling again for your support. Thanks.

Dear Sir/Madam: Greetings of Peace! I am a nursing student currently doing an undergraduate thesis regarding the effects of Philippine nursing licensure examination leakage scandal last June 2006. I am particularly curious as to what these effects are and how they are manifested. I understand that it may be a little outdated to do such study considering the fact that it happened years ago and although it has been disputed for quite a while, the issue's fresheness have subsided. But it is to the intention of knowing the effects that might have persisted after the controversy that his study aims to figure out. The stigma in the leakage scandal is believed to be pervading and it might still has its effects until now to the filipino nurses working abroad, though not the same as it was at the onset of the controversy. I am calling all the Filipino nurses working in USA to be the repondents of my study. I am aiming to get sample repondents for each state in the US and I utilized this forum to acquire possible repondents or otherwise be referred to the target participants of my study. I made an online questionnaire for the convenience of the respondents,as well as an online version of the initial chapters of my research paper. The weblinks are as follows: Initial Chapters of the Research Paper Online QuestionnaireAgain, I am requesting you help in this matter. If you are a Filipino nurse in the USA and working in a particular state, please be one of my respondents and use this same letter to forward to other Filipino nurses working in your area or to other states whom you have contact. Please understand that i don't have access to all of these Filipino nurses that's why I am using referral to keep them posted. Likewise, if you know someone working in the US territories of whom are filipino nurses, please forward this same letter of request. Please be informed that the data and information supplied by the respondents will be treated with utmost confidentiality. If you are not comfortable with the questions and you have suggestions to restructure it to ensure your privacy and comfort, please let me know so that I can do so at the early possible time. If you have further inquiries regarding this matter, please don;t hesitate to contact me via email. Your support and participation are very essential to the success of this undertaking. Thank you and looking forward to hear from you. Sincerely, mmpv

To all Filipino nurses working in the USA, Greetings of Peace! I am a nursing student currently doing my undergraduate nursing research study. I am required to contact all possible Filipino nurses working in the USA to hear their views regarding the effect of Philippine nursing licensure examination leakage scandal last June 2006. I have designed an online questionnaire for the respondents to fill-up using their internet connection. Moreover, initial chapters of my research paper were presented online for your perusal. I would like to guarantee that all the informations given will be treated with utmost confidentiality and will be utilized only for the research purpose. If you are not comfortable giving away your personal informations, please don't do. There are sensitive items in the questionnaire that are made optional; either your provide it or not is up to you. Here are the web links: Initial Chapters of the Research Paper Online QuestionnaireAgain, I am requesting for your help. If you are a Filipino nurse working in a particular state in US, please sign-up the form as the respondent of this study. If you know someone working in that state or in other states, please don't hesitate to forward this message. Your participation is vital to the success of this undertaking. Thank you and more power! Sincerely, mmpv ================================================= Edited to fit the purpose and as per suggested by moderators.

hi labman, thanks for your input. Basically, I plan that it shall be a descriptive type of research in the sense that I will just create an online survey for Filipino nurses to fill-in honestly. I am not sure how I can defend the reliabilty of such research instrument. Please advise me on this. By the way, since my research is all about the effects of nursing licensure scandal, I am not yet clear as to what statistical treatment, if ever I need one, I am going to use. I'll get back soon to let you know any update on my research study. Please continue posting on this thread and those who reads this thread, please lend me a hand. Thank you.

Can anyone help me in concretizing my research proposal which is entitled" Problems Encountered By Filipino Nurses Abroad After the June 2006 NLE Leakage Scandal" ? Basically, I want to determine if there is an after effect of the June 2006 nursing licensure examination for Filipino nurses working abroad. And if yes, what is it (are those)? Recently I have read an article written by a Filipino nurse that the leakage issue is not sensationalized much in the foreign countries as it is here in the Philippines. Now, I think I have to decide right here if such study significant in itself. I need guide in framing the following: Problem Statements - below are the statement of the problem indicative from my basic assumptions: Is there any difference in the attitude of foreign nurses towards Filipino nurses before and after the June 2006 Philippine nursing licensure examination? Is there any difference in the attitude and perception of foreign patients towards the filipino nurses and their service quality?- based from above statements, do you think it is feasible and worth pursuing study? Significance of the Study - who will be benifitted and how? Scope and Limitation - how can i delimit my study so that it can be finished in less than a year's time and who shall be my reposndents and should I target a certain place or population? Methodology - what method of data gathering is appropriate? Is it advisable to make a fill-in questionnaire form online for ease and convenience? What about it's issue of security and reliability? I might be questioned about that? How will i know that the one sending me the data is really the right respondent? Pls help. Research Design - what should be the appropriate statistical tool? Review of Related Literature - how can i proceed with my RRL? What should I include in here and where can I possibly find such materials on the web? I would really really appreciate your positive and prompt response. thank you.