Sending nurses over from India???

suzanne4, RN · Apr 24, 2004

I wouldn't worry about it. Nurses are trained all over the world. The only way that a foreign nurse can legaly work in the US is with a green card, and that means that their English skills are as good as native speaker.

Nurses from India have problems with the TSE part of the exam as well as TWE. This is well documented and not just my opinion. Even though English is spoken in many areas there, most of the nurses use their native dialect at work, just like they do in the Philippines.

There are going to be jobs out there for nurses for a long time to come, so if nursing is something that you want to do, then just go for it. Nurses have been coming to the US form the Philippines for many years and we still need more nurses. I wouldn't worry about it.

Enjoy your studies..................

need2be · Apr 24, 2004

Hello, This is my first post. I was wondering how did you get involved with the med. trans.? What type of training do you have? It sounds like a good job to do while in school. Thanks for any info.

Rep · Apr 24, 2004

A nursing friend of mine just informed me that there is talk of training nurses in India and then offering them free housing to come work in the U.S. Is this true :angryfire :uhoh21: ? I was going to start nursing school next year, but may rethink it now. I work from home as a medical transcriptionist. I don't have any benefits, but my husband does. I can make $23.00+ an hour if I'm cranking out over 300 lines in an hour (which I do). This is before taxes, which means I foot the bill 100% for Medicare. But, I don't have to drive anywhere nor do I have to pay for a babysitter. I can be home when my son wakes up, take him to school, work at home, pick him back up after school. BUt this requires quite a bit of weekend work. I can also work as a substitute teacher for $80.00 once he is in school full time and this won't require any extra school as I have an associates in science. I miss being around people, but I can achieve that by volunteering again with Hospice or our local nursing home (which is where I wanted to do nursing LTC). Do you all think the money I make now is comparable to that of a LTC nurse in a small town? Just looking for some good advice/info from nurses out there in the field/trenches. Thanks a bunch!![/quote
I think your friend has wrong info on the matter of training nurses and bringing them to the US to work plus benefits as free housing. All you have to look at is when there is a shortage of nursing in the states, more peole from other countries started taking up nursing. Here in the Philippines, to become a nurse, you have to enter a four year college course to earn a BSN. No such thing as LPN or ADN programs. We spent our own money to get to nursing schools, no such thing as tuition reimbursement when you get hired by a hospital as common in the States. No help from our other foreign goverments who are facing a nursing crisis. Aside from our nursing board exams, we have to take three other exams ( CGFNS, TSE, TOEFL ) required by the US regulating agencies before we could get a visa for the states.
So, no need to worry. Foreign nurses are not competing against you in the nursing job market. I hope this info helps. Good luck to your plan to become a nurse.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Apr 24, 2004

I don't think the US is doing the training either. But there are agencies that are doing recruiting in India and bringing them over the same way they do in the Phillipines. We've had a few that were considered by our hospital.

linfull · Apr 24, 2004

Thanks so much for all of the info. I just became a little nervous when thinking of taking out another student loan after getting my last one paid off and discovering that I would not be able to find a job! Thanks again!

linfull · Apr 24, 2004

Thanks so much for all of the info. I just became a little nervous when thinking of taking out another student loan after getting my last one paid off and discovering that I would not be able to find a job! Thanks again!

linfull · Apr 24, 2004

Hello, This is my first post. I was wondering how did you get involved with the med. trans.? What type of training do you have? It sounds like a good job to do while in school. Thanks for any info.

I received my associates in science back in 1996. I took A&PI & II, pathophysiology, pharmacology and lots of other classes that have disappeared over the past 8 years from my mind! I remember lots of medical assitant students in the classes with me and they couldn't believe how much I had to take to perform transcription. Well, now I see that my college has decided to make medical transcription a certificate! No path, no pharm, no A&P II. Just medical term. and lots of typing. I am lucky to have worked with a local legal deposition company that had one doctor that had a back log of dictation. Since then, we have spun off into our own company and cover our entire state, plus are going to other states. It would be a great job while in school. You just have to have the reports turned around within 24 hours and make sure they are 99.5% accurate. Hope this info was helpful!

linfull · Apr 24, 2004

Hello, This is my first post. I was wondering how did you get involved with the med. trans.? What type of training do you have? It sounds like a good job to do while in school. Thanks for any info.

I received my associates in science back in 1996. I took A&PI & II, pathophysiology, pharmacology and lots of other classes that have disappeared over the past 8 years from my mind! I remember lots of medical assitant students in the classes with me and they couldn't believe how much I had to take to perform transcription. Well, now I see that my college has decided to make medical transcription a certificate! No path, no pharm, no A&P II. Just medical term. and lots of typing. I am lucky to have worked with a local legal deposition company that had one doctor that had a back log of dictation. Since then, we have spun off into our own company and cover our entire state, plus are going to other states. It would be a great job while in school. You just have to have the reports turned around within 24 hours and make sure they are 99.5% accurate. Hope this info was helpful!

oramar · Apr 24, 2004

Is that these reports will be outsourced to India. There is a lot of that going on these days.

I received my associates in science back in 1996. I took A&PI & II, pathophysiology, pharmacology and lots of other classes that have disappeared over the past 8 years from my mind! I remember lots of medical assitant students in the classes with me and they couldn't believe how much I had to take to perform transcription. Well, now I see that my college has decided to make medical transcription a certificate! No path, no pharm, no A&P II. Just medical term. and lots of typing. I am lucky to have worked with a local legal deposition company that had one doctor that had a back log of dictation. Since then, we have spun off into our own company and cover our entire state, plus are going to other states. It would be a great job while in school. You just have to have the reports turned around within 24 hours and make sure they are 99.5% accurate. Hope this info was helpful!

oramar · Apr 24, 2004

Is that these reports will be outsourced to India. There is a lot of that going on these days.

I received my associates in science back in 1996. I took A&PI & II, pathophysiology, pharmacology and lots of other classes that have disappeared over the past 8 years from my mind! I remember lots of medical assitant students in the classes with me and they couldn't believe how much I had to take to perform transcription. Well, now I see that my college has decided to make medical transcription a certificate! No path, no pharm, no A&P II. Just medical term. and lots of typing. I am lucky to have worked with a local legal deposition company that had one doctor that had a back log of dictation. Since then, we have spun off into our own company and cover our entire state, plus are going to other states. It would be a great job while in school. You just have to have the reports turned around within 24 hours and make sure they are 99.5% accurate. Hope this info was helpful!

Sheri257 · Apr 24, 2004

I don't view foreign nurses as a threat. Here's why:

You can't outsource a nursing job to India. You have to bring the foreign nurse here. Therefore, they have to live here, and they have the same cost of living as we do. It's not quite the same thing as those IT jobs moving to India. Even if they're not paid well initially, foreign nurses do eventually demand the same wages, benefits, etc. There have been EEOC cases where foreign nurses have sued and successfully fought for better wages and benefits.

There have been posts on this board where administrators have complained about training foreign nurses who eventually left for better paying jobs elsewhere. The reason is that demand for nurses is high and should continue to grow with the aging baby boom generation. So, hopefully, there should be room for everybody.

Also, there are new English proficiency requirements will hopefully eliminate the problem of foreign nurses who don't speak the language well. This might also reduce any potential flood of foreign nurses coming into the marketplace.