any comments on immigrant nurses who gets paid a lot cheaper than citizen nurses?
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This is a very common practice and a very unfortunate one. I'm a registered nurse, and I just found out a few months back that a fellow coworker was on a working visa and is getting paid significantly less than I am.\n\nI heard her story, but in my mind I was thinking that's the way it is. Nurses are not cheap, and hospitals are just taking advantage of the situation.  It works for both sides. The immigrant nurse gets to work here and enjoy the freedom, while hospitals can provide competent care to their patients through these immigrant nurses.\n\nCommon practice. For the ignorant person who wrote about jobs being taken away from U.S. citizens..can you please read up on the nursing situation in this country. There is a big shortage and no regular Joe Schmoe can do that job. It is going to get worse in ten years. You'll see when your parents reach 70 to 80 years and a nurse is forced to take on 8 patients because there's not enough of them. Watch how you treat that nurse, and she probably does not even have a nursing assistant!\n\nWhy don't you be a nurse then , ignoramus!
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Competitive enough?  Umm do you mean "competent" enough as in they have the brains/intellect to be nurses?  Christ the spelling on this website is atrocious.  Is it me, or do only the morons come here and type in illiterate abortions of English?  \n\nMy experience shows that Filipino nurses are competent.  There's always a bad apple in the bunch.  Of course there will be dipsh*ts who somehow passed their nursing board test.  I've only run into a few bad Filipino nurses.  There are crappy nurses everywhere of all races, colors, etc.  It's not right to single this group out.  However, I feel that they should improve on their language skills of English if they want to work in the States.  It does frustrate patients and can potentially be dangerous, especially w/ medications that sound and are spelled alike.
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Your teachers should have covered that in school.  You have to pass Canada's exam.  But why would you want to work as a nurse up there?  The money is so much better in the states.
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Wal-mart has the lowest wages. $3.04 an hour. \n\nThats if you average in the illegial immigrants they hire.
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I speak for my wife...an RN Home health nurse for new Moms and babies...\nShe worked harder and more hours than anyone I know.  She travelled all day in her car, visiting patients -- sometimes in places that required an armed plain-clothed policeman, and constantly on the phone coordinating home health equipment.  Often, when she had questions in the field, she had little to no resources to help her...meanwhile the parents, grandparents, and local neighbors are clamoring and crying as she cleaned a burn wound on their child or drew blood.  In the evenings after 10 long hours, she had about 3 hours of paperwork to complete, followed by - again - coordinating the medical equipment for the next day.  Then the cycle started again.\n\nWhen could she give her young child the time she needs?  When could she be a mom?  When could the family see her?  When could she rest?\n\nShe quite her job, and stayed home to raise our child.  That was the best decision ever, and made a huge difference in my child.  The money was good in nursing, but not that good.  No amount of money could ever buy back the time with our daughter that she would have otherwise missed.  The financial adjustment was difficult at first, but adjustment comes.  For me, I never paid any day care to love my daughter in my absence -- something they can never do anyway.  I go to work, and never have a worry about my family.  That peace is worth more than money, a new car, or a huge house.\n\nToday my child is older, and my wife now teaches 1st grade.  The stress is nonexistent, unlike nursing.  The pay is much less...but she feels called into teaching, does a great job, and truly enjoys her job.  Again, the pay is tiny compared nursing, but we make it, and the happiness and peace cannot be bought.\n\nHope this helps.
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I don't clearly understand your question, but there is a very large nursing shortage rite now, so the pay has increased for nurses in the last couple of years, so many people are going that route in life, including me.
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It depends on where you live.  An RN can make anywhere from $30 to $50 per hour.  Not to include overtime.  Plus you can work for other companies part time and increase your pay two-fold.  Normally 40 hrs per week with a bonus upon signing up every year...\nCalifornia rates would be higher than say Texas or New Mexico.  The cost of living is figured into pay if you didn't know...\nWhat is a WOCN RN btw?
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I am not exactly sure what a patrician nurse is, but the US Government's estimations for nursing salaries is below:\n\n\nMedian annual earnings of registered nurses were $52,330 in May 2004. The middle 50 percent earned between $43,370 and $63,360. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $37,300, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $74,760.\n\nMedian annual earnings in the industries employing the largest numbers of registered nurses in May 2004 were as follows:\n\nEmployment services: $63,170 \nGeneral medical and surgical hospitals: 53,450 \nHome health care services: 48,990 \nOffices of physicians: 48,250 \nNursing care facilities: 48,220 \n\nMany employers offer flexible work schedules, child care, educational benefits, and bonuses.
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Registered Nurses\n\nI am sure you are paid more if you go into SPECIAL areas - Surgery, OB/GYN, Peds etc.
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Come to the United States, we need good nurses.
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Pretty good, really. There is a shortage of nurses almost everywhere. \nIf this is something you're considering... go for it. We need you :)
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lol its funny we have the same avatar but try being a rn nurse! they make lots of money and you will love it.l good luck!
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You can get general info about nurse salaries at\nhttp://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos083.htm\nFor more specific info, try:\nhttp://salary.nytimes.com/
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if you have passed the cgfns and have a visa screen then you have a good chance of having a greencard. all you have to do is find an agency that sponsors foreign nurses and they will help you find employers. they will help you apply for i-140, i-485 and i-765 concurrently. better if you already passed your nclex because you'll have a lot of offers from employers. nurses i think can have their greencard in 6-10 mos the earliest with employment based petitions. good luck
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CURLIES_10-You Need To Learn The Underlying Issues Before You Become A Taxpayer(Im Assuming Youre A Student Living With Your Parents)\n\nFREEDOMHAMMER Makes The Point Best-It Is GREEDY Unscrupulous EMPLOYERS That ENABLE This Problem And Have Compounded It To This Point\n\nThere are jobs Americans simply won't do, so that the importation of foreigners is essential. Whether these foreign workers are ILLEGAL ALIENS,  guestworkers, or permanent Legal Immigrants is a detail to be worked out by us, the argument goes, but our need for them is unchanged.Even many opponents of the proposed Bush Amnesty assume this to be true, leading them to propose new and improved guestworker programs, with provisions for stricter controls against Permanent Settlement, greater incentives to return, tighter enforcement against Unscrupulous Employers, etc. As well-meaning as such efforts may be, the basic assumption is false — \n\nThere is simply no economic reason to import FOREIGN Workers.If the supply of FOREIGN Workers were to dry up (say, through actually ENFORCING the immigration law, for starters), employers would respond to this new, tighter, labor market in two ways. \n\n1: One, they would offer HIGHER Wages, INCREASED Benefits, and Improved Working Conditions, so as to recruit and retain people from the remaining pool of workers.\n\n2:At the same time, the same employers would look for ways to eliminate some of the jobs they now are having trouble filling. The result would be a NEW Equilibrium, with Blue-Collar Workers making somewhat Better Money, but each one of those workers being more productive.\n\nMany people fear the first part of such a response, claiming that prices for fruits and vegetables would skyrocket, fueling inflation..NOT TRUE..Labor accounts for only about ten percent of the retail price of a head of lettuce,  so even doubling the wages of pickers would have little noticeable effect on consumers.\n\nSeveral people told me they used to do the "jobs Americans won't do" until local employers figured out they could get ILLEGAL Aliens to work for less than half the same amount. As an example, a young landscaper who used to make $15 an hour 10 years ago, can't get a similar job now for more than $8 an hour. Same heat. Same difficult working conditions.  But with the Depressed Wage, AMERICANS – who live in a country where the cost of living is miles above that of Mexico's – can't afford to take such jobs.It's not that he and other Americans don't want to do landscaping anymore; it's just that in heavily trafficked ILLEGAL Alien environments, IT DOESNT PAY WELL ENOUGH ANYMORE.\n\n Younger U.S.-born high school graduates are squeezed at both ends. Jobs that would have gone to them in the past are now being grabbed by college graduates. The lowest-wage jobs are unappealing, and employers will not raise wages as long as ILLEGAL Immigrants will take them.\n\nIf this is what the open borders crowd means by ILLEGAL ALIENS doing jobs Americans don't want, they're right. American workers want jobs that can Earn them a DECENT LIVING in this country. Minimum wage is a fortune south of the border, but it doesn't go far here. \n\n\nthis is to illustrate the absurdity of a "comprehensive" approach to ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS , and the more radical of the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT  advocates who are proponents of an "open borders" policy. We don't take a comprehensive, humane approach with drug dealers because they are breaking our laws and causing great damage to this country by poisoning our children. Similarly, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS  violate our laws and Poison our system of Economics by TAKING JOBS  from American Workers, Keeping WAGES ARTIFICIALLY LOW, and Sucking MILLIONS of Dollars of TAXPAYERS MONEY out of our Welfare and Medical Systems. \nNot To Mention The Fact That A Majority Of ILLEGAL ALIENS Live And Work In This Country And Then Send Their Money Back Home To Their
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There are not many resources on the Web that gives information on medical staffing business. I suggest you check out the following resources:\n\nStaffingIndustry.com has several publications that you may need http://www.staffingindustry.com/publications/\nMedical Staffing Comprehensive Start-Up Manual http://www.semsea.com/html/med_staffing.html\nHealthcare Staffing and Budgeting: Practical Management Tools (Hardcover) by Roey Kirk http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0871897849/powerhomebizguid\n\nThere is a Healthcare Staffing Summit that you may want to attend:\nhttp://www.staffingindustry.com/healthstaff_summit/\n\nI suggest you also look at your competitors and see how they are organizing their business and presenting their services:\n\nhttp://www.interimhealthcare.com/\nhttp://www.intelistaf.com/\n\nAs for permits and licenses, check your county office or go to your Secretary of State's website\n\nIf you are considering recruiting nurses from a foreign country such as the Philippines or other countries into the USA, consider the following:\n\n1. Know the immigration laws pertaining to foreign employment inside out - from H1B option to employment labor certification process. The nurses you recruit from abroad should be able to get the proper work permits and documentation to work in hospitals. Some hospitals may be willing to hire only those who have the right papers, while others may be willing to share part of the burden by sponsoring these nurses.\n\n2. Know the tests and certifications required in hiring foreign nurses. This includes passing the board exams required by states to practice nursing, as well as english language (TOEFL) tests. You need to think of how you want to help potential recruits with regards to getting their exams and certifications passed. Will your foreign branch help make sure that the recruits pass their TOEFLs for example? To what extent will you help your recruits pass their exams?\n\n3. Actual foreign recruitment. Will you establish a formal recruitment agency in the foreign country, or will you do it through conduits? How will you oversee the recruitment process making sure that your nurses pass even their TOEFL exams? How often will you travel to your source country?\n\n4. Marketing to hospitals. There is a shortage of nurses in the US, but you also have to be cognizant of the sensitivities of hiring foreign labor (see again the ethics question article). How are you going to tap hospitals and ask them to trust you to supply their nurses recruitment needs?\n\nI found an article from the Sinai Hospital in Maryland about their experience in foreign nurses recruitment that's an interesting read. Check out "Sinai Hospital and Foreign Nurse Recruitment: Getting Beyond “Stealing” Nurses" at http://www.mdhospitals.org/mha/Ideas_in_Action/May2003/sinai.hospital.htm
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You guys I'm not trying to be smart a__ but that salarywizard is Not right, especially for the south. It's usually much lower than even the "lowest median salary". I'm not kidding! Call a nursing school at a college such as Emory or Univ. Of Georgia, ask to speak to the Admissions office. Befriend the person, ask who you should speak to- I would think the career adviser. Or i bet the nurses have a society in GA of some type, google this. A Licensed Practical Nurse just starting out is not a Registered Nurse- this would obviously vary greatly where you worked- a nursing home? Home health care? Caring for granny while her kids paid you? $36,000? In rural GA or Atlanta? Get real, there's no way to quantify this via an internet site. You need to talk to girlfriend nurses in the town where you are applying. I had a client this year who worked doing nursing tasks in a nursing home in a mid-sized city in AL. She had a lot of experience. I don't know if she was a L.P.N. but she made exactly minimum wage. Don't shoot the messenger, lol...