STUDY AGAIN

[charramal 0]

Hello everyone. I am thinking about going back to the Philippines and study AGAIN. Now the economy is so down i regret the time i did not study seriously when i was in college in PI. I graduated a four year Marketing course and didn't feel i learned or maybe i just forgot what they thought me in college. And after graduating in 2006 i never applied to work. At first, I was thinking to just work in a Call Center until my fiance (husband) proposed to me and planned to marry.

I am 23 right now and waiting for the approval of my AOS. My husband is 27 and he is an engineer and making about 60K a year. I told him my idea about studying again in the Philippines and take a 4 year Nursing Course and he said Yes. Im not planning to leave him for 4 years but instead Im planning to visit him every other 6 months since I heard that you cannot leave the country for more than 6 months or something like that. But I am also considering the money that I will spend for the Fare for 4 years.

What do you think guys, should I go back and study again in the Philippines to take the Nursing Course or should I just take a CNA here? Or just get a crappy Marketing related job? Please advise me.

Thanks!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Why not study nursing here? You're a newly married couple and have already spent a lot of time apart. Now is the time to be working on the marriage, IMO.

[Dakine 26]

Hello everyone. I am thinking about going back to the Philippines and study AGAIN. Now the economy is so down i regret the time i did not study seriously when i was in college in PI. I graduated a four year Marketing course and didn't feel i learned or maybe i just forgot what they thought me in college. And after graduating in 2006 i never applied to work. At first, I was thinking to just work in a Call Center until my fiance (husband) proposed to me and planned to marry.

I am 23 right now and waiting for the approval of my AOS. My husband is 27 and he is an engineer and making about 60K a year. I told him my idea about studying again in the Philippines and take a 4 year Nursing Course and he said Yes. Im not planning to leave him for 4 years but instead Im planning to visit him every other 6 months since I heard that you cannot leave the country for more than 6 months or something like that. But I am also considering the money that I will spend for the Fare for 4 years.

What do you think guys, should I go back and study again in the Philippines to take the Nursing Course or should I just take a CNA here? Or just get a crappy Marketing related job? Please advise me.

Thanks!

My wife took a 2 week CNA crash course and is now happily working for a "Nursing home without walls" with good pay and benefits.

Yeah RNs make a LOT more but it takes a LOT longer to study for. She is working full time +. When she gets settled in she plans to continue studying for LPN.

No way would I survive with her going back and studying in PI.

Edited December 13, 2008 by Haole

[one...two...tree 2,762]

We have a friend who lives here in the states (she's originally from Bohol), she started first in a program for a medical assistant and then onto a LVN (licensed vocational nurse) and now works at a doctor's office. There are plenty of places that offer nursing programs here...I don't see the advantage to studying in the PI with the added stress of being in a LDR all over again and trying to fly back and forth.

[nickoftime 1]

Instead of flying to the US and the Philippines twice a year, I think it would be better if you use that to pay for your studies here in the US.

[smiley888 0]

Instead of flying to the US and the Philippines twice a year, I think it would be better if you use that to pay for your studies here in the US.

-- i agree with all those advices, would be hard for the 2 of you to be separated again after the long wait. At first we really can't get a good job like what we have back in PI except if you are a nurse but in the future we can just be patient and well thats a good idea if u will go back to school.. Good luck and Merry Christmas!!

[mawilson 2,133]

What do you think guys, should I go back and study again in the Philippines to take the Nursing Course or should I just take a CNA here? Or just get a crappy Marketing related job? Please advise me.

Go back and get a crappy marketing job.

[JVKn'CVO 11]

Look into your local community college for nursing degrees. Very affordable, and a good way to get started. You can always transfer later for a RN program

Saludos,

Caro

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

It is better to not be apart. No couple should be apart. The time we have with our loved ones should be cherished and seen as precious because it's all we are going to have.

I like some of the suggestions like taking the money you would spend on tickets and applying it towards your education here as well as there is government funding such as direct lending through the department of education for programs like that.

As far as career choices and economics education will always improve your quality of life. Nobody can ever take that from you. The people that will work around you in the medical field are all trained professionals. I worked eight years in a hospital and my husband is a doctor so my life is one way or another is acquainted with how it works. From my experience RN's are always in demand and highly regarded verses an LPN or CNA. Nurses pass out medicine, manage units, report and work directly with Doctors and administration and therapists. LPN's report to RN's. There always has to be an RN on the unit. LPN's are seen as RN's but do not make as much money as RN's because of the two years difference in education. It's like an associates certificate verses a bachlors degree. However if a LPN works an eveing shift or a night shift they get differential which is competative with day shift RN's. Almost always someone has to die on the Day Shift for anyone to move up in the ranks any other way. And even then Human Resources is opening the position seeking RN's first before an LPN. CNA's are like technicians. They are given the worst jobs such as baths and cleaning up bodily function messes and moving patients. Although some of the stuff that drains out of people that I can't even describe here because it is utterly nasty are recorded and checked by nurses. Needles, catheters, enemeas, administering pills, wiping peoples bottoms, cleaning up ####### caked to peoples bottoms because they messed themselves in bed as they are tied up to the bed with wrist restraints so they don't pull their tubes out or hurt themselves as they are so incognative......I've seen too many things.

Also hospitals have education funding programs and health benefits. If you can get your foot in the door as a fulltime CNA then you can have the hospital pay your tuition for going to Nursing School. I saw many CNA's go straight for the RN vs. the LPN because Hospitals prefer RN's.

And will only pay for the RN programs.

[boo boo 1]

My husband was in your situation, he has a college degree that he obtained in his country and from another country, but when he moved here he decided to go into the nursing field. The CNA course is usually a 12 week program...give or take afew. My husband did that and then got a job at a hospital where they would pay 100% tuition reimbursement for a nursing degree...if you work for them after you graduate, he was not interested in that, so he just took out loans and applied for schloarships...and he has not had to pay any out of pocket money as of yet.

My husband goes to a website called www.allnurses.com and it is a website just like VJ...alot of different forums to help answer any questions that you may have pertaining to nursing and there are many members that give helpful advice. I say stay here with your hubby, do CNA for a couple of months and then see where to go from there and check out the website....if you have any concerns or questions.

[chris-lei 1]

Why dont you study for CNA or LVN, get a job then study RN if you still want to pursue that career. I agree that you should not part with your husband even if you are still a young couple. You don't know what may happen tomorrow (knock on wood).

There are lots of schools here that offer programs for CNA, LVN or RN. Plus, as you ave mentioned, air fare will cost you a lot. Better spend the money on schools here, and be with your husband.

[John&Juvy 36]

Hi,

That was my plan also 5 months ago...to go back in philippines and continue study (Hotel Management) there and told to my husband that ill just wait him there when he asked me to give him time like atleast 5 years LOL to settle everything he have that need to be settled 1st before we go back and live in PI because i wasnt really feel comfortable living here before... and still a little till now, but what will i can do we are married now ans unseperable LOL. But my husband did not agree coz he think it wont work out that way. So the plan now is back in school on sept 2009 and find any tempory job that i can get here now.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

So can ANYONE explain what exactly the advantage of going back to the Philippines to get a degree that you could get here are? Especially when you consider that after obtaining an RN degree in the Philippines, you'd have to have all of your credits re-evaluated in the states, and probably be required to re-take some classes and go through a certification process again. All that on top of the added expense of maintaining two separate households plus all the negatives that long separations bring. What exactly is the advantage?

Yep. Although I believe there is a nursing and English translation exam that she would have to take. My wife has 2 sisters who studied nursing before they left the PI and are currently living and working in Ireland. One of them had hoped to work here in the states, but according to my wife, she did not score high enough on one of the exams required.

[tallcoolone 102]

If you go to Nursing School in USA. You only need a 2 year Associate Degree in Nursing in order to become a RN in USA.

If you go back to Nursing School outside of USA, and you are Forgeined Educated then you will need a Bachelors Degree in Nursing, and in PI the Bachelor Degree is 5 years to become a RN.

In USA some community colleges offer Associate Degrees in Nursing, and it would be in expensive.

Finish the 2 year program and submit your application to your State Board of Nursing, and soon you will should be calling Pearson Vue in order to sit for your NCLEX-RN.

Bottom Line, get educated in USA.