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It may be a stupid question. Say, if I start working at a place last year January, if I resign in December, does it viewed as 1 year experience or 11 months only? If the work environment is horrible and endangers your license and you are very worried...

There is already past writeup on record due to extreme short-staffing. New administration like fire or suspend staff. Many times our unit end up with no CNA since most of them are either suspended or fired. Worried about staying there for one more mo...

But the facility has a very high turnover rate and fires nurse left and right. The facility are so short of staffing now they even offer sign-on bonus while the other hospitals in the area don't do it at all. Working there everyday is like suffering,...

For you guys who are already in CRNA schools, I assume you all have past good grades. Maybe somebody can give me some advice on how to get a good GPA. When I took my pre-requisites for RN program, I got 4.0. In my previous college degree, I had a 3.9...

Hi, everyone: I live in Newark, currently I am studying for a professiona license required by the job. I will be done in the Summer, I wish to go into nursing program in September. But I heard there is naturally average 2 -year waiting list for nursi...

Hi, I'm not from Philippine, but from PRC. I posted here since I figure out there might be more philippine nursing students here. Since the retrogression will affect all of us, as projected the 50k GC will be used up by the end of 2006. Does anybody...

Hi, I've stayed in the States for a very long time. I know to be a Certified Nurse Aid in the States, you need to attend a CNA class. The class is short and jobs are plentiful. But I am not sure about how things are in Canada. Can anybody tell me if ...

Just want to say, most people start thinking about next step far in advance than 60 days. People start to ask questions even before they start nursing school. Always good to have a plan B. Especially for foreigners, abide all laws and rules of this c...

No need to worry about tuition or living expenses if going for PhD programs. Almost all PhD programs provide students, especially international students, with assistantship and tuition waiver. All they need is study hard, work hard at labs, research....

One more suggestion for foreign RNs who graduate from US schools, when visa quota is not available. Do something you can control, don't sit there becoming out of status. Things you can do: 1) If you are an ADN, go get your BSN first. 2) If you alread...

There are extra 20,000 H1b visa being created beyond 65,000 annual quota. These are for people who graduate from US schools with advance degrees. Research-oriented non-profit organizations are not subject to H1b quota. Visa petitions can be applied a...

The biggest chance for these non-resident RNs in US to be able to work, is, from their spouses. Lots of them have spouses working on H1, some are researchers in universities with PhD degrees. Generally speaking, many H1s can apply for GC based on Emp...

Hi Suzanne, Do you know what is the estimate time of working just to keep the hands from getting cold? I understand it is difficult to find a part-time job for a new graduate. In case there is a possibility, what will be the amount work time that the...

Hi, Silverdragon102 , suzanne4, I have a question. If a US nursing school graduate get RN license (fully, unrestricted, with all documents such as SSN, work authorization, etc.), but the person does not want work as an RN for family reason, career re...

Is their accelerated BSN for people with RN license already? Cause the website does not say they are accrediated by state board of nursing. Is it true that only graduates from stated accrediated programs can take NCLEX? I've seen many BSN programs ac...

Hi everyone, I'm wondering if a 3.5 GPA in nursing courses look competive for a CRNA school? I have two Bs in first two nursing courses, two As in two Nursing pharmacology courss. My overall nursing GPA in the first year is 3.13. I figure out the bes...

In my class, there are a couple of students, their kids alrady go to college, so I assume they are late 40s or early 50s. they are all doing great. So I think age is not an absolute factor. There are people who are in the 30s and are on disability fo...

Excellent tips. Thanks for sharing. Time time time, that's the trick. Also study hard on the notes. I concentrated too much on the NCLEX-Review books last year, and missed some easy questions that could be answered correctly if I studied notes. So I ...

What do you mean nursing school grades are inflated? As far as I know, in the diploma school I'm in right now, and in a ADN program close by, good grades are extremely to get. And only 94 and up are A. Below 87 is C, below 80 is a fail. My ex-classma...

A lot of canadians apply for I140 on TN. Nebraska center has a memo on this. An approved I140 can't prevent TN renewal. Just kept renewing tn until PD is current. Alberta are recruiting US nurses. One person told me the whole Canadian green card proc...

hpcat , thanks for the great suggestions. The biggest problem with me is that I have no other choice but to work full-time at the company during the day. This is a regular 9 to 5 office job. During week I found no time to study at all. During weekend...

Starting from me, I'm in a diploma nursing school evening class with a full-time job in the company. Just finished my first year, another year to go! My favoriate books for the nursing school are: 1) Saunder's Comprehensive Review of NCLEX-RN 2) Illu...

As it to the immigrations, things can become very complicated. There are rare cases people on H1 status are in the nursing school part-time. So there are international nursing students in H1b status. Immigrations rule says H1-b can be renewed with an...

People who are under H-1b temporary worker status are less affected by the retrogresstion. A H-1b status usually can only be renewed once. After a total of 6-years, the foreign worker has to leave the country for at least one year. But with an approv...

Generally speaking, filing I140 or having an I140 approved does not allow one to stay in the country legally. Only filing I485 will allow one to stay in the country legally as AOS. You need to fina a legal visa status to stay after your OPT expires a...