Aquarius85

Hey guys! Im a swedish trained nurse with 5 years of working experience. Does anyone of you know how much the bridging program cost?

you could at least have told him that you are not interested. I know that, when I find a woman interested, i´ll do anything to find her. I will ask my friends, try to find her online etc. Havn´t you ever been interested in a guy where you have done everything to find him? The worst thing that can happen is that you would get a rejection. No big deal, but at least you gave it a try. I dont know how many times I have got a good connection with girls and then forgot to ask them for their phone numbers.

I would actually consider to work for free, if an employer is hesitating hire me or not. The money doesnt care either, I would even work for 15 dollars an hour because the most crucial time after you graduating is not how much money you can make but to gain experience. Every employer is looking for an experienced nurse with a least a year under their belt so even if it is bad paid the first year, you wont die. But most importantly, you get experience and that will take you to the next step to find another employer with a better salary.

hey! Im an international student who applied to nursing school last semester, they told me that I would get in by spring 11! Im so tired of waiting....At the same time, I read some interesting news about the RT program (Respiratory Therapist) and I actually applied for that program last week. Nursing is my biggest dream in life and thats what I wanna do, but due to the retrogression maybe RT is a better choice even though the work may be limited? If I dont like the program, I can go back to nursing school either way because they told me I would get in this fall! No waiting at all.. My question is, are Respiratory Therapists affected by the nursing retrogression? Is it easy to work in the US with an ADN degree in Respiratory Therapy? Maybe this is the wrong forum to ask? thanks.

haha :)

what happens to people that sleep around at work? Do they get fired ?

it is really sad to see that you cannot be proud of who you are and where you are from. We are all proud of who we are no matter if we are yellow, grey, spanish, brazilian or whatever we are. When I work in nursing homes, I often hear a thing or two. Its often older people that have something to say. It is funny how we are supposed to look up to older people, when they in fact are behaving less acceptable than most people are. You loose your respect for them because they should know better. Or at least you hope, sometimes 80-90 years isnt even enough.. People will always have something to say in life, sometimes it satisfies you, sometimes it doesnt. Many times, it wont and at that time no matter how sad, humilated and angry you feel, just ignore it. Because you know, and I know that you are so much better than those people. Thank god for us having learned that we are all the same and at the end, we should all be united instead of devided.

The reason why US schools love internation students are because we pay full tuition. By that I mean, US Colleges must share the money they get from US residents for tuition fee which are then devided by X amounts of colleges in your state or city. BUT with an international student, the college does not have to share the money with the rest of the state or city, so the money goes directly into to the school. Thats what I have been told.

Is it impossible to apply for a H1B visa if you are a foreign us trained student with an ADN? that would make the ADN program pretty useless..

Why not just apply for a working visa? A H1B visa?

Physiology!! Interesting but tough.

you are right, have to do some serious thinking. About krokomosse, I didnt even know that we had a city (village) called like that in sweden! Lol, but I google it and Its located outside Kungalv. the correct name of that village is "kroksmosse". I can search for that person. What is his/her name?

Im not struggling with the prerequisites, im getting good grades, but the 12 hour studying is how I study. I dont need to study 12 hours a day, but I want to, because the information is interesting, so its volentary. About sweden and nursing school , the reason why you have to take additional classes is because, different terminology, different procedures, clinicals are little different from US etc. I can tell you that the information I have learned in the us is nothing that I know of in swedish. What im trying to say is that, if I had to explain the HIV virus for a patient in sweden for example, it would be much harder because I have learned it in english. ah.. i hope you know what im trying to say. To work in sweden, you have to basicly speak fluent swedish. there are some international nurses there, and a lot of the patients may not always understand english terms/ medical terms which can make it hard to understand the nurse/doctor. you have to take a nursing assessment test which is in swedish. So theres a lot of differences between us and swedish nurses, but I think swedish nurses are so bad! I work in a nursing home during the summers in sweden, and I see patients asking the nurses questions like, "why is that good for me?" or "what does that do?" and there answers are - " i dont know" . things like that makes me angry. Thank god only few of them are like that, but I believe that american nurses are more skillful than swedish, thats why I dont wanna end up like that.

i know.. you are right.. I will graduation in fall 2012, opt ends in 2013. By then, everything should be OK? I have created a life here.. its so hard to say goodbye to everything... but im fully aware of problems ahead of me. I will forget everything I have learned in english, all the vocabulary, etc.. I have a lot to think about.. life is so unfair sometimes.

I know im doing something very risky.. its just.. I have spent so many hours, energy to get into nursing school. I have been studying from 9am - 9pm 4-5 times a week. Its been blood, sweat and tears! Many tears.. I have put down my soul in this... so for me, its very hard to lay down a very good pokerhand if you know what I mean. This has been my world för 2,5 years now. I have no motivation at all to start over in sweden.. sigh.. im just so sad... The nursing education in the US is different from the one in sweden. If I go back with my ADN or even get a BSN, I still have to go back to school, to take additional courses before im eligible to work. But I guess that even the greatest poker players must fold a very good hand sometimes...