I'm a doctor in latin america but I want to becomen a nurse in USA. what can I do?
I'm
a medical doctor in latin america, but I really want to become nurse in
the USA and work. I wonder if somebody knows about the steps that I
have to do?
I will become a legal resident in the USA soon.Therefore inmigration is
not something that I have to worry about.
I would rather a link or website than a motivation.
Immigration - 3 Answers
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1 :
get a green card is the first step, or student visa if you want to learn how to become a nurse. or a working visa.
But seriously, we have way to many doctors. Of course, who says there's a limit?
2 :
Apply,
visit, see if you like it, and go through the proper legal
process/channels if you wish to stay... and you will be welcome.
3 :
You
would have to contact a state board of nursing.
In order to work as a nurse you need:
1)graduation from an accredited school of nursing (two degrees are quite
often required depending upon the state: science and nursing)
2)passing a stringent background check
3)passing the state board
Being a doctor doesn't qualify you to work as a nurse. Nurses have far
different skills than a doctor does as they perform a different duty.
Yes - you will have it easier going to nursing school as you already
know your diseases - however, you still will have to learn the nursing
skills that doctors are never taught in medical school.
A doctor may have difficulties working as a nurse due to differing
attitudes towards patients. Doctors normally diagnose and prescribe
medications - then walk off. Nurses deal with tons of emotional issues,
clean diapers, translate what doctors said into plain language for the
patients.
You need to ask yourself some questions - can you change from
prescribing medications to be taken during the night to changing an
altzheimer patients diapers, watching a 1/2 dozen patients all night
long - with an average of 2-3 of them very capable of self harm due to
dimished capacities....doing stuff to themselves like yanking out
catheters, or trying to commit suicide? Doctors don't do these things -
nurses do it every single shift - and nurses get talked down to by
doctors, and get blasted by patients families when they are upset due to
anger (with god, medical system, family members, etc) - and must smile
while and be pleasant regardless of how they are treated...
If I havent discouraged you - good luck with your endeavors!
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