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  1. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

    Turbota posted a topic in Nurse Registration

    I posted this in another forum, which I now realize was the wrong forum for this question ... so I am reposting it here. My wife (age 32) was born in the Philippines (where she spent most of her...

  2. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Nurse Registration

    I'm thinking .... good

  3. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Nurse Registration

    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...

  4. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Nurse Registration

    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...

  5. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Nurse Registration

    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...

  6. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Nurse Registration

    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...

  7. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Nurse Registration

    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...

  8. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Nurse Registration

    That's an

  9. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Nurse Registration

    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...

  10. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Nurse Registration

    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...

  11. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Nurse Registration

    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...

  12. Bachelors from the Philippines

    Turbota replied to vumblevee's topic in International Nursing

    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...

  13. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Nurse Registration

    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...

  14. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Nurse Registration

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

  15. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in Nurse Registration

    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...

  16. Want a BSN in Philippines

    Turbota replied to iscream4u's topic in Philippines

    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...

  17. Nursing school in the Philippines .. Working in the US

    Turbota posted a topic in General Students

    My wife was born in the Philippines (where she spent most of her life), but is now a US citizen. We are currently living in Florida. She has a BS degree in computer science, but now wants to be an RN....

  18. My Filipina wife wants to go to nursing school > Question

    Turbota posted a topic in International Nursing

    This is my first post, so a big Hello to everyone. :) I am an American living here in the Philippines with my 27 year old Filipina wife (she is a Filipino citizen and has never been to the US before)....

  19. My Filipina wife wants to go to nursing school > Question

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in International Nursing

    again, thank you all for all the information you have given me. i can tell you one thing ... this nursing career my wife was thinking about is 'on the back burner' now. i would like to say that i...

  20. My Filipina wife wants to go to nursing school > Question

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in International Nursing

    thank's everyone or the frank answers to some of my questions. just go to any filipina chat room or one of those filipina dating sites and you will quickly see lots of scammers. the majority of these...

  21. My Filipina wife wants to go to nursing school > Question

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in International Nursing

    Thank you all so much for all the replies. Someone stated: That it might be best or her to get her RN degree in the U.S. avoiding the "rediculously high interntional fees" .... I was led to believe...

  22. What are your plans as a RN?

    Turbota replied to gemini_star's topic in Philippines

    With all these negative posts about newly graduated nurses who are either working for next to nothing at some Filipino hospital or having zero to very little luck finding a nursing job in the U.S....

  23. My Filipina wife wants to go to nursing school > Question

    Turbota replied to Turbota's topic in International Nursing

    Thank's for the fast reply ... You state that "If she does her nurse training in the US" ... Do you mean her On-The-Job (OJT) training in the U.S. after she gets her RN degree here in the Philippines?...