Working overseas

[amandalorica]

I am a filipina,married,with 2 kids and modesty aside BSN is my third course,one a business course,midwifery and then nursing. I am graduating this 2009 from a government institution's college of nursing. I feel sad about how filipino nurses are being viewed nowadays. But you can't blame filipinos, they would do everything for the sake of the family, I guess that is our values "family first". That is why we are willing to sacrifice working in a foreign land and not sure to what degree of discrimination we will encounter. As to you who is planning to work in Vermont, I could say Go! and not think about the loneliness that you will suffer in that foreign land. Anyway, loneliness can be a good friend if you had known it for so long enough. As regards to nursing, I think the US have an ideal nursing setting, better opportunities for professional growth. I also feel sad about the retrogression because I myself is aiming to prove my competencies in a country like the US where there you could be successful by "working hard and doing good". I am tired of the Philippine system. I, too, feels sad for what is happening in the filipina nurses who is aspiring to work in the US. As for me, though my husband is about to have his citizenship in a country in Europe and said that we could go to London after I gained at least a 2 years of work experience here in the Philippines, still I aim of working in the US. But there are things or happenings that we have to accept and not complain about it. May acquire the serenity to accept the things we cannot change. And make use of the opportunities that is in our hands at the moment and disregard first the hopeless pursuit.

[suzanne4, RN]

Please take the time to do some reading on this forum, you are going to have issues getting the work experience in the Philippines at this time or even when you graduate next year. There are literally hundreds of thousands with the same wish as you, and no jobs that are available.

The training or volunteer programs do not count as experience for working in other countries.

You are looking at five to ten years for even a chance at a visa for the US.