al1012

From what I heard from the Pinoy nurse community here in Baltimore, IQMan recently sent some RNs to a nearby Sinai Hospital here in Baltimore. But they come in with working visas, not immigrant visas due to the retrogression affecting immigrant petitions. Contact them directly if you are interested as I am not connected with the company.

I heard recently brought Filipino nurses to Sinai Hospital here in Baltimore. However in light of current retrogression they are coming in on H1 (working) visa. The drawback to this is that it is possible that the spouse is not allowed to work as compared to the immigrant petition wherein the spouse is allowed to work. I believe they have a Manila Office. You may contact them directly. Don't send me any details as to who you are lest it be construed that I am gainfully employed by the said agency.

Best bet would do some volunteer work. Hospitals will use the term Nurse Trainee but basically all it means is that 1. You are not paid. 2. You pay the facility a monthly fee so that you may go on duty. The upside is that if and when you get interviewed, you will have some RN experience which you may cite which can be verified by your prospective employer simply by making a phone call to the Nursing Training Office. Since you are from Fairview, you may want to try De los Santos Memorial Hospital (along E. Rodriguez Ave near St. Lukes). I believe that facility takes Nurse Trainees and are open even to second coursers. I state this as in the Philippines certain current and past members of the Department of Health look at second coursers as second class RNs unlike here in the USA wherein a nurse is a nurse. Starting out as an RN without any job prospects is a bitter reality which Nurses here in the USA do not experience. As such they may not be able to offer REAL solutions to your predicament. Take the hit: do volunteer nursing if only to get work experience. God will reward you for your sacrifice. The Philippines is one of the countries wherein age discrimination is a common hiring practice. Some hospitals will not hire nurses older than 25 while others use 30 as the cut-off age. All this takes place while the former secretary of health tries to make it hard for second coursers to get jobs abroad by having Roadshow Circus presenting a study backed by anecdotal statistics of second coursers allegedly being sent back to the Philippines, or failing to do their jobs as nurses. The latter has not been in the news as of late on account of the Visa retrogression affecting nurses.

When you are getting the BP. After attaching the cuff, feel for the radial pulse (with the tips of the second and third fingers). Then proceed to inflate the cuff until you no longer feel the pulse. When the pulse disappears, more or less the extremity is occluded. Take note of the pressure then release the cuff. Let the arm rest for about a minute then position the diaphragm on the antecubital area of the arm with the cuff. The auscultatory gap which is a point wherein the audible pulsations disappear for a few seconds then reappear. To make sure that you actually get the first sound and not start somewhere in the auscultatory gap. Inflate the cuff to 20 mm Hg higher than the prior value obtained. That way you avoid the auscultatory gap and will really hear the 1st sound (systolic bp). When taking BP, ideally you release the pressure at the rate of 10mm Hg/ 3 seconds. At least that is what Fundamentals of Nursing specifies. Where the sound disappears is your diastolic bp. Cheers. al