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I'm thinking .... good advice

Well, the more I read all these negatives here on the forum, the more I realize that this whole Philippines nursing school may be just a big waste of time and money. And I had no idea that there was a big glut of nurses here in the US at this time. And I had no idea that it may be difficult to get licensed here in the US after going to school in the Phils. _________________________________ My wife realizes that she basically wasted 4 years of her life getting her BS / Computer Science degree since she really don't want to work in the field now ... I would hate to see her waste another 3 years or so going to some nursing school in the Philippines and then not being able to get a nursing job when she was finished.

Your reading way too much into all this. We have been together for 8 years already (married for 6), and never once has she been a Gold-Digger .... And no, I didn't meet her in a bar in Angeles City either. And I didn't meet her on the internet either. And as far a long distance relationship, what makes you think that I am going to be living here in Florida for the whole time she is going to school in the PI ... We sold our house in Bacolod before leaving, but we have a very nice condo in Bacolod right now for us to live in. And I am a retired pilot, so I don't have a real need to stay here in the US the whole time she is gone.

The real problem we have about going to school here in the US is .... You have to take all these prerequisite classes beforehand, and that don't guarantee that you will even be accepted into the nursing course once you complete them. Well ... you folks have convinced me Maybe she can find a good Welding school

steppybay .... Well, maybe this whole nurse deal is not worth the trouble. Maybe I am just living in the past ... But, as you very well know, there was once a time that many Filipina nurses came to the US for jobs in hospitals. In fact, I would bet that the majority of all Asian nurses in the US are originally from the Philippines and went to nursing school in the Philippines. Maybe the nursing schools in the Philippines are not as good as they used to be? I guess ... The times, they are a changin'

TheAverageMan ... My wife is originally from Bacolod. In fact when we got married in Bacolod, we had a house built in Ayala North Point. Sold it before I brought my wife to Florida ... I lived in the PI for 5 total years myself. Anyway, my wife is also a graduate from AMA Computer College in Bacolod. I will send you a PM ... My wife may want to talk to you on the phone in the future if that's ok.

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Yup ... Looking at my history, you can see that I was asking a similar question about nursing school when I first joined this forum back in 2010. She put the whole idea on hold since then, but has made up her mind that she want's to pursue this nursing deal again. You know, everyone here thinks that she is making a very bad decision to attend nursing school in the Philippines ... What I don't understand is that there are many many Filipina nurses working at hospitals here in Florida that graduated from nursing schools in the Philippines. Has something changed all that much since all these Filipino nurses started getting jobs in the US? Again, I will say that I sat right there in the counselor's office at 2 colleges here in Florida and heard the same thing .... That is might be difficult for my wife to get accepted into a nursing program when there are such limited spots available, and there are lots of people trying to get one of those vacancies in the program. The way they select these people for the nursing program here in Florida is by 3 things ... 1. The student's grade point average from there high school (previous college grades are not considered) 2. Grade point average for these prerequisite classes you have to take [before] you are even considered for the nursing program 3. Overall grade you get on some medical test they give everyone before they select the students that are going to attend the nursing school So, you spend at least a year or more taking these prerequisite classes, and you may not even get selected for the nursing program once you complete them. Again, it is a FACT that there are a lot of RNs here in the US that graduated from nursing schools in the Philippines .... Have things changed that much since all these Filipino nurses came to the US for jobs in nursing? ________________________________ [before] my wife actually goes to the Philippines and starts any nursing course, I am going to call the Florida Board of Nursing and tell them of her plan and state what school she plans on going to over there and see if there will be any problems with this idea. Since it's the Florida Board of Nursing that will determine if my wife can set for the NCLEX-RN test, they certainly should be able to tell me if she is going to have a problem upon her return from the Philippines ... don't you think You folks don't seem to give any encouragement to any of this ... And if any of you are in fact nurses that currently have jobs in hospitals here in the US, I will bet that you know of quite a few of your fellow RNs that were trained in the Philippines ... am I right? _______________________________ I have another question for you .... Do you feel that Philippines trained nurses are sub-standard to US trained nursed?

No desire to ever live in the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia. As far as having her foreign transcripts evaluated, she has gone through this before. She has a BS in Computer Science from a school in the Philippines. She once had to send the transcripts to a company in Miami (Josef Silny) to have evaluated at the request of another school here in Florida ... She was lucky in that they evaluated her degree as equal to a BS in Computer Science from an accredited US university.

May have problems in some states, but it don't seem to be a big problem here in Florida. My wife would be happy to attend the University here in Florida for the purpose of getting her BSN, but the problem is that at any given date, there are 250 students trying to get accepted into the nursing program that has only 50 vacancies .... not easy So, the student takes all the various prerequisite courses first, just to find out later that she was not picked for the few available seats in the BSN course ... Bad odds

Just to add .... My Filipina wife was applying for a BSN program at a university here in Florida. A requirement for admissions was that she had to have here transcripts from her school in the Philippines evaluated by a company in Miami called "Josef Silny" (she had a BS degree in Computer Science). We were very happy that her degree from the Philippines was evaluated as "equivalent to the bachelors here in the US".

Seems like the requirements to work as an RN are all different from state to state for nurses that have graduated from nursing schools outside of the US. My wife was born in the Philippines, but is now a US citizen. We live in Florida. She wants to go back the Philippines and get her BSN degree there. Once she returns to Florida with her Filipino BSN, I believe she has to have her Philippines college transcripts evaluated before the state of Florida will allow her to take the NCLEX-RN test. Do you know if the state of Florida requires anything else from an RN that graduated out of country before they are allowed to be licensed as an RN in Florida? Thanks,

Thanks ... I had no idea. I will try looking for that forum Any idea what the forum is titled?

Thanks 'caliotter3' for the input. Is applying for an RN license different for persons graduating from a school in the Philippines vs a person graduating from a school in the US? They both have to pass the NCLEX-RN exam, but what more would be involved for a new graduate from a credited Filipino college vs a US graduate? _____________________________________ Like I mentioned above, my wife was told that she may not get accepted into the BSN program at the college here where we live because you have 200 students trying to get in a program with only 35 available openings. So, you take all the extra pre-requisite classes first, just to find out later that you were not accepted into the nursing program ... big waste of time and money.

ok123 .... Good questions, unfortunately I don't have your answers. My Filipina wife is in somewhat of the same situation as you are in, however, she has never been a nurse of any type before. My wife is also a US citizen and has a BS degree in Computer Science from a school in the Philippines. We both live together here in Florida. She wants to attend De La Salle university in Bacolod City and try to get her BSN. Then come back to Florida and try passing the NCLEX-RN. I hope we can both get someone here to help answer the questions we both have. Ron and Ann,