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  1. News Release: Doctors to Nurses (please read)

    ----- maybe so but i think that the instance a doctor decides to become an rn, he has already thrown his "dr. ego" out the door, reset his buttons so to speak and re-learn to do things according to...
  2. News Release: Doctors to Nurses (please read)

    ----- yes, the gov't can ban doctors from shifting to nursing but i bet it won't be as effective as allowing these professionals to decide on their own to stay. policy should be on how to make the...
  3. positive ppd skin test, neg xray, take meds?

    ---- ain't i lucky or what?!? spent more than 30 years of my life in the phils. where chicken pox is as normal as childhood but never got it there. i got chicken pox here, in the u s of a, where...
  4. positive ppd skin test, neg xray, take meds?

    ------- wow, thanks so much, suzanne. i have the impression that i should, after all, go ahead with the treatment. do you think i can ask to shorten it from 9 to just 6?? another thing i failed to...
  5. positive ppd skin test, neg xray, take meds?

    ------ this is my third attempt to post. i hope this works. i don't know. i took this ppd test bec. i wish to do volunteer work. since i tested positive, the facility referred me to the local health...
  6. hi! i'm directing my concern to you bec. i know you'll have some very impt. inputs about it... my good friend was a doctor for some 8 years in the phils. before she migrated here in the usa in 2000....
  7. hi suzanne-doc to nurse, what do suggest?

    ---- appreciate your reply,
  8. hi suzanne-doc to nurse, what do suggest?

    --- thanks, suzanne. that was lightning fast! so you mean she can't go to an MSN program without having first a
  9. pinay studying nursing as 2nd degree in us

    ---- hi! a baby and a new career...i'm excited for you!
  10. pinay studying nursing as 2nd degree in us

    ---- hi, glysdi. i've been down with chicken pox and feeling miserable for a week now. your 'kamusta' is timely....drew some sunshine in, thanks! it's only an adn. results will be out anytime soon...
  11. News Release: Doctors to Nurses (please read)

    i got to know about doctors becoming nurses some 5-6 years ago. i'm among those who raised my brow at the idea because it seemed ridiculous and reflected many pinoys' poor sense of national pride (or...
  12. pinay studying nursing as 2nd degree in us

    hello! great to hear from
  13. --------------------- hi, thanks...your post well taken. i felt compelled to respond because there may be people out there who don't have a clue about philippines and filipinos. for them to think the...
  14. --------------------- hey...you can encourage your friends back home that while the labs in the us may be a whole lot better but the books we use are the same... facilities could help but ATTITUDE...
  15. Filipino nurses with ADD

    --- of course....i think that 'uneasy' feeling is universal....stay
  16. --- you're welcome, rinsane. i'm glad you're able to decide what's good for you. you can always make new friends and have fun anywhere... i think what's important now is to focus on your studies. i...
  17. International nursing students in the US

    Nusing homes and hospitals are both facilities, in terms that you can see on a cotnract, so be very carelful if it states facility of their choosing. It is always 150% better to start in a hospital,...
  18. ----- i can't say that what you're saying is untrue bec. there really are places in the phils where poverty is so sickening people struggle to eat and sell themselves for money. however, to generalize...
  19. --- aha...but just the same, it isn't very surprising to know
  20. ----- hi rinsane...i hope you're still sane, hehehe. i'd say that if money isn't a major concern for you, do it here. you've started anyway. going back home, scouting for a school, getting papers...
  21. International nursing students in the US

    Lucky me... I found a job in a local hospital in GA in hospital setting, not nursing home... I paid the legal fee (you can afford it if you can find a job) but NO contract. With a little overtime, I...
  22. well, i feel displacing first courses shouldn't be a deadend. what about additional faculty? (second coursers do need to pay tuition,too,right?) maintaining only a certain quota of students (tests?...
  23. Docs as nurses?

    ----- so sorry to hear that. i hope your experience is an exception rather than the rule. i know that before being conferred the title "MD", students go through four years pre-med studies, four years...
  24. ----------- oh no...not 4-years, lawrence01! please....there's such a thing as accelerated nursing for degree holders. is this program a 'trademarked' idea only allowed in the united states? because...