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Is it true that this hospital issues COE for their volunteers?

How long after the 44th skills training were you called for casual status? I read in other threads that they will place you on casual status for 3 months, then probationary for another 3 months and become a regular employee thereafter. Is there a possibility that you'll be placed in a special area like ICU?

Hi! What are the requirements for Metropolitan Medical Center? How did your exam and interview go?

Anyone who tried applying to VRPMC recently?

Hi! What are the requirements for Diliman Doctors Hospital?

We're you called for interview already? When did you submit your requirements? :)

Do you have to undergo their RN Residency even if you have paid hospital experience in the past?

Hi nurses! Any news from CMC this month?

Hi everyone. I just sent my pack 1 two weeks ago. But none of my documents were notarized. I had a friend who started his NMC application last November. He got his decision letter after 6 months. His pack 1 documents were not notarized as well. I'm now worried that the NMC might ask me to send them notarized copies of my documents.

though i'm on the side of allowing newly grads in nursing education..i don't think i agree with them teaching without having post-graduate units first before being employed..coz that's one credential that a nurse has to meet right?! after passing the boards, you can enroll for post-gradute studies and finish in a year and a half if you're a full time student..12 units for 3 semesters plus 1 summer of 6 units......the university where i came from still ranks as one of the top nursing schools in the country, yet they hire newly grad alumni as clinical instructors..i believe i got my money's worth..

yes..that's was the only thing i'm trying to point out..newly grads can teach what they were taught..i believe that's why not all newly grads can qualify as clinical instructors..they also need to qualify to certain standards..i'm not saying that they will be better than those who spent years already in the nursing profession..but they do present better lectures..easy but book-based..but the skills i guess can be better taught by nurses who spend time in the clinical area 'coz even senior nursing professors are not that reliable anymore in that aspect since they're spending much of their time in the academe rather than on the floor..

the goal of any nursing school is to produce competent generalist nurses..but i guess, the measure of competence is quite relative..im not saying that experience is not needed, that's vital to any profession or occupation..im just trying to point out that newly graduate nurses can teach with quality..coz i've experienced that when i was a student nurse..if quality related learning experience was given to these newly graduate nurses, then i believe they would be able to teach their students well..'teaching and learning' is part of the nursing management curriculum offered during the last semester of the BSN curriculum..it is ENHANCED during post-graduate studies which is required when you land a job as clinical instructor.. the sad truth for a lot of nursing schools lately is that, they focus more on quantity rather than quality..i heard that some universities cater nearly 2000 students per year level..how in the world can you be assured that each and every student that got her nursing diploma from that school has the knowledge and skill of a competent nurse.. as they say..you cannot teach what you don't have..garbage in..garbage out..

1. What are the materials that you used? fundamentals of nursing by potter and perry, maternal and child care nursing by adelle pillitteri, prioritization delegation and assignment by linda lacharity, kaplan trainer, saunders comprehensive review 2. How many hours per day did you study? how many questions did u answer per day? 4 hours a day for 4 months while waiting for my eligibility to test..i only started to answer questions when i was done reading all my reference materials..i did 100 a day for a week until my exam day.. 3. How many days or months in total you studied before taking the exam? 4 months..once i got my eligibility, i scheduled for an exam right away.. 4. What are the specific strategies that you used or the the test taking skills you applied during the exam? ABC, maslow, prioritization, nursing process.. 5. Take one or take two? 75 at take one.. GOODLUCK!

hi..if you really want work and with compensation, a friend of mine informed me that their hospital - riyadh national hospital is currently in need of nurses..coz a lot of their staff are resigning due to the difficult work load..it's definitely a work experience right?! and with salary..well..i know the middle east is not an enticing option to new graduates but it's the only place where fresh RN's are accepted..well as long as you have good credentials and trainings..i guess they also consider the school where you came from..the better the school, the better the chances..good luck!

my university offers clinical teaching jobs even to fresh graduates only if they graduate from our school and has acceptable credentials..i was taught by clinical instructors who were just a few years ahead of me, some of them were my student nurse seniors during my RLE's..but as far as im concerned, they were able to teach as well..well enough for us to be confident to feel that we can be efficient staff nurses right after we graduate..i guess it all depends on the quality of nursing education given to these newly graduate clinical instructors and how the dean of the college of nursing deals with their clinical skills..maybe that's why they don't hire graduates from other schools..so as not to jeopardize the quality..i believe it was easy for my clinical instructors to teach us since the 4th year nursing students in our school who undergo RLE's for nursing management act as clinical instructors for the 3rd year and 2nd year students..the lower years are the staff of the seniors..so when you graduate, managing a staff and teaching them won't be such a difficult task.. i was surprised to read here that some fresh graduates were not able to experience COMMON nursing skills as suctioning?!?! does not all nursing schools have a skills checklist to accomplish?! when i was in my senior year, we were required to accomplish the whole list of common nursing skills else we wont graduate..so skills such as suctioning, feeding, ngt insertion, ifc insertion and the like are not new to me when i graduated..and we were supposed to do it to actual patients, not dummies..our school did not have enough funds to buy us high end types of dummies thus we were required to do skills on actual patients.. i do believe that experience is the best teacher..but basics are taught in nursing schools right?! and basics can be taught by any other REGISTERED NURSE..you graduated from a BSN course and became registered because it means that you're competent enough to handle patients..in the BSN course, we are being prepared to be nurse GENERALIST and i believe that general nursing can be taught even by a newly graduate nurse..

in addition to good credentials, they also screen applicants according to the schools where they took up their BS Nursing course..i remember accompanying a colleague to st.lukes medical center, quezon city..there were 2 boxes near the division of nursing department..if your school is in the list posted, you place your requirments in the 1st box, the 2nd box is for "other schools"..

it's hard to look for a local job specially for those who have poor credentials..hospitals nowadays are looking for nurses who have 80 and above board rating, have 2.0 and above GPA's and the like..also they are out for those who have more trainings..this is an effect of the over supply of nurses in our country..hospitals can now choose the best among the many applicants and disregard those who did not match their standards..

Thank you for your insight. I guess they're just making sure that my friend has hospital experience that's why they're asking for the certificate of employment. Agencies nowadays are particular with job experience. It's obviously an effect of the current imbalance in the supply and demand for nurses. They won't settle for newly grads or those without enough experience yet. So you're saying that even if her papers would be processed and eventually land a job in the said hospital, she would just be staying there for more or less a year? And if the US government asks her to leave the country due to visa validity, is it part of the sponsoring health care institution's responsibility to shoulder her flight home? Coz if all the money she earned while working there would just be spent on daily expenses and airfare, all her efforts would be put to waste right? She would not be of help to her family either.

Hi! Has anyone of you heard of the hospital Valley Baptist Medical Center located at Harlingen, Texas? I was able to read a thread here mentioning that this hospital is included in the list of hospitals issuing a H1C type of visa, which is only issued by areas who have severe shortage of nurses and this shortage was due to unsafe working environment. I just want to inquire if you have more information regarding the aforementioned health care institution because a friend of mine was interviewed by an employer from that hospital and they were offering her a non-immigrant type of working visa. I assumed it was a H1C visa, since I was also able to research in this site that H1B visas are not for people from the nursing profession. My friend passed her NCLEX and IELTS already and is currently working in a tertiary hospital. The employer told her to process her visa screen certificate first and ask for a certificate of employment from her current employer before they could process her employment, which would take 6 months. They will not pay/reimburse for the visa screen or any exam (e.g. nclex, ielts). They will only process my friend's employment and pay for the plane ticket. I'm really worried for her. I'm also a nurse but despite the current conditions in our country, I'm willing to go through the long and legal process than to do shortcuts coz that's what majority of my senior nurses and relatives from the US advice me to do. Do you think it's safe for my friend to accept this offer? How unsafe are the working conditions in Harlingen, Texas? Hospitals in the Philippines, especially government hospitals, have really high nurse-patient ratios so I think she's equipped to handle that, but what if the "unsafe environment" that they are talking about also includes the residential areas?