Waiting Time

[psychelle]

hi nurses! i knw we are all waiting for retrogression to be over. How long exactly are we talking about? is it 5 years? how about for those who havent started their visa applications? 10 years more?

maybe u can share what do u do while waiting for these things to clear up? since being a volunteer doesnt count as working experience abroad, i wonder if any of u still consider doing volunteers and trainings?

and applying as a staff nurse seems impossible nowadays, how will us nurses ever have any growth in our field?

are you currently:

1. Unemployed?

2. A Volunteer in a hospital?

3. Went back to your previous job?

4. Go back practicing your first course?

5. Reviewing for nclex/cgfns? (if u passed, its still waiting time right?)

i hope we will all be able to practice nursing here (with the right amount of salary) and abroad (after retrogression maybe).

thanks so much! God bless!

[mushymash, ASN, RN]

There are some agencies that consider volunteer work as an experience as long as it's 30h/wk, an example would be is Interstaff Inc. I guess that would depend on the agency. That's what they told me when I asked them about volunteer work. Although they did not respond in regards to the paid trainings in hospitals.

What you can do to ensure a slot in a hospital is to find an agency that has a tie off with a hospital. i have heard that medical city has a tie off with an agency, just that, i don't know the name of that agency.

Would you believe that some hospital would not even accept volunteer nurse because they already have accepted quite a number of them?

Goodluck to us.

[psychelle]

i am starting to lose hope, i resigned to my job as preschool teacher to look for a nursing job, but sadly, not one has called. I heard that volunteers are accepted by batch and you have to "donate" 5k-10k to the hospital that u r training in. training also is not an assurance that they will hire you though. isnt that really a downfall for us? instead for growth, it seems we are exploited, looking for hospital that will hire us and ends up as a volunteer?

thanks so much for your reply. i appreciate it. good luck!