US/Filipino citizen looking to study ABROAD in Philippines!

steppybay · May 7, 2013

While I can't vouch for the college you mention, but one of your best sources is the college themselves. You will need to have them provide you with solid written and documented evidence beyond a reasonable doubt for your complete 100% satisfaction, of exactly the same questions you're inquiring about.

(a). You need to speak directly with the Dean or anyone in the highest position to give you the straight answer (still to be taken with a grain of salt) until you are more than convinced you're making the right move.

(b). Along with your line of questions and concerns besides the ones you mentioned, you need to INSIST and TALK personally to SEVERAL graduated PH students who have successfully obtained their ATT in CA without any problems (or if there were some issues, how, what and where are the problems and their resolution). These students MUST of the past year, not 3-4-5 years ago, things have changed drastically as you can read on the many topics here.

©. Ask to review their recent NCLEX-RN passing rates to exhibit somewhat of their recent curriculums, recent meaning from the years starting 2009 to present, just know that in the US and in CA alone, the NCLEX passing rates average is over 80%.

While it's good you're currently an LVN and if it's in a good hospital location, I would ask if you came back as an RN would they consider hiring you back as such. I know unless it's in writing, in two-three years time, that hospital may change its DON, NM or others in the hiring powers to be. Just so you know, the demand for PH nurses and students are not on the minds of most hospitals as they prefer to hire from inside or from other US educated schools, since the hiring priority is going towards them.

As an LVN now, how many new PH nurses from the Phils themselves been hired in the past year in your hospital? If you're not working in a hospital setting, do you plan to keep working where you're at now but on an RN level and you're okay with that?

As you mentioned, you don't want to waste your time and money. So it's your responsiblity to make sure that you do your own hard research, get the correct and truthful answers yourself, dig, dig dig into the minds of the Dean, school counselors, recent students, the person handling the document transfer, everyone involved in the process.

You must come away with straight self-evaluations, because at the end of the day and in your case, in a couple of years, the decision you make, right or wrong, is going to be your full responsibility with no one to blame but yourself if you find out along the way, you forgot or didn't want to ask or neglected to find the real answers and then, you've discovered that now you are going to wasting your time and money. It's totally your decision.

This is what I tell kababayans asking me for advice and I'm being real gentle here. Believe me, I can "grill" a Dean to almost crying over the phone with some of my friends asking about this or that PH college.

Ginger's Mom, MSN, RN · May 7, 2013

The quickest way for you to become a RN is to go LPN to RN program in the US, usually they are only 1 year. After completing the program you can get your BSN online in less than 2 years and work may pay for the cost of the RN to BSN. Then getting into a Master's program will not be an issues. ASN programs have a pass rate close to 90% where and international grad is 30%. The paper work won't be a hassle. In both programs you can work and go to school, good luck.