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  1. Visa Screen for June 2006 Philippine Nursing Exam

    I find it amazing that this saga is still rolling on and on. Just face it the NLE is in a mess and has virtually no credibility worldwide with leakages and confused nurses not knowing whats going on. This scandal can be equalled to a member of the p...
  2. Putting rumors to sleep

    I guess as history has been known to show that a scandal uncovered is evidence of a prolonged problem. Its blatently evident that the PNA has not got there house in order and nurses are suffering. I guess people should make their voices heard should...
  3. Putting rumors to sleep

    I have been reading this blog with intrest and i might say i do find it strange. I guess the rumor mongering wont sieze as has been described by Suzanne. Enlighten me folks with so many Pinoys desperate to enter the US market fraudulant actions in th...
  4. I love working in the NHS because..........................

    Sorry to hear about you situation Chassie 2 i hope your future endeavors will be more sucessfull. Allow me to say this is what i term as dedication making you poor( can be financial emtional etc) . I have always advocated to being an agent for chan...
  5. I love working in the NHS because..........................

    Thanks Nursemonique 21 i could not RECALL Gibbs in time so much emotion.I guess pre Alzheimers and taking life with a pinch of salt:monkeydance: is having an undesired effect Keep up the spirit lol Nursemonique 21 I am with you Nubes on our est...
  6. I love working in the NHS because..........................

    A hearty shout out to all realist that have left or who are about to to leave the nhs. Its not " running it down.... or crediting the managers..."(:uhoh3:is someone on a retainer here) according to the honarable Mable uk but in my view we are using ...
  7. I love working in the NHS because..........................

    i could not wait to get out sooner:balloons:. Well there has been enough NHS bashing on this thread. Its a free market economy out there chaps. UK nurses you can choose where you want to work( anywhere in Australia,New Zealand, commenwealth Canada,US...
  8. Been here 5mths, want out of contract...

    Suffice to say Suzanne reading a contract in detail forms only 50 percent of the overall settlement of any nurse to a new enviroment in my view. Honouring contracts is not the problem if both parties hold up there promises. What nurse finding him/he...
  9. Been here 5mths, want out of contract...

    A warning to all nurses thinking of signing on with agencies that promise you the moon and stars. Out of personal experience i travelled to Visalia after being promised the hospital that i would be working for is very progressive. Being a scepitc i ...
  10. Homesickness in my first year

    My dear wife and i have pondered the idea of taking a cruise actually.Hopefully the captain will stave off the real ale or guinness :cheers: for that matter and navigate his way around these potential dangers LOL. Otherwise it will be bottoms up lol...
  11. Homesickness in my first year

    first things first. English nurse do get up the ladder to put a dish up ,then you will be talking health and safety issues. Yep Astra sat does broadcast in the USA but remember a uk digibox is coded to pick up uk signall no matter where you are in th...
  12. Homesickness in my first year

    to english nurse yep it will work as long as you still have your home bank accounts(.GB ONLY) for direct debits. just ask your local sat tech to face your dish 28.2 degrees east. dish size 90 cm(standard). sky broadcasts on the ASTRA satelite. its wh...
  13. Homesickness in my first year

    i have been in the uk for about 9 years from South Africa and two years ago a friend recommended http://www.mikesradioworld.com. A brilliant internet based radio web site. I was able to cach up with what goes on in my local area where i come from and...
  14. alot of key workers(nurses teachers fireman) are also struggling and cant find housing and now its country wide. http://www.msn.com sad situation
  15. Uk for Uk?

    what a lively forum. i would like to through my two cents/pennys in the pot. I am a jollie foreigner who has been nursing in the nhs for the past 9 years. I started working in the clinical degrading system and left prior to the introduction on AFC....
  16. Waiting List Initiative

    this is a very good forum and views expressed here are for the purpose of learning i do benefit. well done to nurse paris who manage to sort out her issue . there is no perfect system anywhere you go but i have to be biased and say that in the USA wh...
  17. Phoenix With Ogp

    common gyus i believe in a free market where people have the ability to choose where they want to be working and living. OGP is not the messiah when it comes to placing nurses in the USA.there are many that could be touting for your business/services...
  18. Phoenix With Ogp

    i posted some info on this website over a year ago on OGP. i cant believe the amount of people been taken for a ride with OGP. fact they placed nurses in the worst hospitals in Arizona where US nurses dont want to work. the Banner group especially.yo...
  19. Idiopathic Edema

    have had the result of a d dimer test it will rule out dvt.you mention your mother is on all american diet(junk food) discontinue that source and progressively change it.less salt intake and watch that blood pressure another reason could be claud...
  20. Agency ban

    i dont want to be bashing the uk nurses as i am a foreignnurse myself who sought to leave the nhs. i feel that the culture in my profession over here is reactive and not proactive.we will swallow all the garbage that some one with no medical knowledg...
  21. Hello from the new girl!!

    i think you might have extacted the wrong section.it did state that green card does not change at all your status.the issue i am adressing the freedom you have if you do it yourself like i did my going out to cali and negotiating with a hospitall mys...
  22. Agency ban

    i guess the issue of banning agency nurses has not been reflected upon. agency nurses are a last resort to boost the numbers on an adhoc basis.being overspent is not the fault of nurses and believe me if we were budget holders and overpsent we would ...
  23. Hello from the new girl!!

    becomes invalid when you change employment.basically a contract with an american hospital is legal and binding its not like in the uk where you have a contract and them leave midway through.in the us they like to enforce contractual agreements.howeve...
  24. Hello from the new girl!!

    OGP are like the plaque i hate the buggers.you can diy.look at this website http://www.21stcenturynurse.com. click on the us flag go to directory. the there will be an interactive map click on hospital links there are loads of them.the website gives ...
  25. Agency ban

    i left the nhs and now work part time as a agency nurse.i should have done it years ago.my former co workers in the nhs are suffering.just an example i did a night shift in a&e and shifted 7 patients to the obs ward.at 4am in the morning the doct...