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hello! i'm curious if there is a licensure exam for working as a nurse in qatar? i tried searching, but the threads were quite old and i'm not sure if it's still the same today... much thanks.

hey guys. working as a nurse in the UAE, specifically in ras al-kaimah, is one of my options right now. can anyone who has ever worked there tell me what the working conditions are like? or the culture? i am a roman catholic, by the way, so does this...

is it practical to keep on hoping, or should i accept that it is not my fate now? ever since i graduated 4 years ago, everything i did was for my overseas career fulfillment. of course, you all know what hindrances there are. so here i am, a USRN fin...

thanks for the replies guys. sofia*26, can you tell me more about Oz accepting nurses even with minimal experience? I'm keeping my eyes open, reading the classifieds of the best dailies for related stuff, but it seems i can't find what i'm searching ...

hmmm...sacrifices, sacrifices.. for my foreign exams, since i wasn't receiving much help from my parents financially, i had to save up for the finances myself. so yeah, my sacrifices include not going out during paydays, not going along with outings,...

hello. can anyone please help me out with this? i know its true that the IELTS and CGFNS will expire if you don't take one within two years of the other, but is it true that the IELTS will expire if you are not granted a visa screen certificate with...

here's what i understand of it. GWA is your average grade when you graduated. Add up all your averages for each semester in college, then divide the total by the number of semesters you had. some hospitals are requiring it, because, (in my opinion) ,...

what an ignorant comment from someone who supposedly knows the state of nurses. it's bordering on ridiculous. what a shame. tsk tsk. he should sign up to be a member of this online comunity so he could read and be updated by the real situation of rea...

to all those venting out, i sympathize and i understand and i strongly agree! yes, i'm a nurse, yes, i'm supposed to be compassionate and everything and make service the reason why i took up this course and everything..but hey.. i spent years of my l...

i keep seeing on the news the downward trend of the US economy, or if i misinterpreted that, then the bankruptcy of some of America's largest investment banks/ insurance companies, etc..(Lehman Bros., AIG, etc) anyway, i would just like to know what ...

i see. the general consensus seems to be that attaining an immigrant visa would take around 5 years. would that be for those who start the filing now? what about those who started a year or two ago? thankies.

hey everyone! there are some visa issues which confuse me and i would appreciate any clarifications. the US is in retrogression, so this affects the granting of immigrant visas, right? would it be possible to "switch" from an immigrant visa to a work...

hello everyone.. im an RN based in the philippines. is there a site where i can download all the forms and other requirements needed in applying for the nclex exams? to save some funds, i've decided not to pay a center to do this for me. i have alrea...

ah okay..when you say "specialised" does it mean your hospital experience has to be in a special unit, like ER/ OR/ ICU/ etc? what do you mean "have a bachelor's"? i assume that is a bachelor's degree in nursing? all RNs here have bachelor degrees in...

i see....so in the event that i actually know someone who is in that position right now, let's say, a friend whose US hospital employer had already petitioned an immigrant visa for her, and in fact she's already for packet 3, but again, there's the r...

you are not alone! i don't know if it helps any, but i just want to let you know that i get a bit depressed, too. i tried applying at hospitals, but it was futile. where i live, the hospitals have resorted to hiring only their own graduates. those wh...

hello pips! took the nclex last may 13, got my results on may 16. 1. what are the materials that you used? - saunders q&a review mostly. tried reading saunders comprehensive review, but i didn't get to finish it. used also notes from cgfns exam. ...

take the nclex here. so once you arrive in the US you can work as a nurse right away. i think it'll be much harder to pass it there because aside from the usual anxiety taking an exam has, you have to deal with adjusting to practically everything. (t...

lots of countries are hiring, and i had the idea of applying, too, so i could work there while waiting for the retrogression to be lifted. BUT, as with the countries i applied in (middle east, singapore), they preferred those with experience. since ...

based on my experience, it takes a few months for them to send out your results, and even longer, depending on the quality of your post office. the oathtaking comes first. however, if you do need your results on paper right now, you can go to PRC and...

i honestly am disappointed with the PNA. ever since i became a registered nurse two years ago, i have not availed of, participated in, nor even heard of of any activity from the PNA. perhaps they might say ignorance is not an excuse, but when i say i...

hello everyone. im applying for a visascreen certificate by myself and im not quite sure on how to go about it. i've read the handbook already.:typing for those items on the forms that are not applicable to me, do i leave them blank or write NA? one ...

hmmm... personally, i wouldn't say anything close to the nurses' salary here being "well above the minimum wage requirements". maybe it's just me, but really, i just can't bring myself to agree.

this is per month. this is based on my salary when i was a nurse. minus the taxes, i took home around Php 5,000 per month.

there's a big difference between the salaries in public and private hospitals. public hospitals have bigger salaries. i know of a private hospital which gives a starting salary of around Php 5,900. your "one day" there is more than "one month" here.