Working with Different Patient Care Roles

Working with Different Patient Care Roles Hello everyone, welcome to the Lefora Talk Show  season four episode seven our expert edition, I am pleased to be here with some great guests today. And my name is Holly Musselwhite, I’m the Clinical Nurse Educator for Connetics USA with am in healthcare. …

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The Best Way to Prepare for the English Exam

How to Prepare for English Exams What do you think would be the best way to prepare for the PTE exam overall? Like, how long should they study? And you know, should they work with a study program? Should they be buying some resource online? What are your thoughts on …

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The Purpose of CGFNS to International Nurses

The Purpose of CGFNS to International Nurses Give us just a little synopsis of what is CGFNS? Yeah, great question, Holly. So for those of you who are not familiar, CGFNS is the organization that does credential evaluation for nurses and other Internationally Educated healthcare professionals who are coming to …

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How To Choose a Nursing Recruitment Agency

How To Choose a Nursing Recruitment Agency Can you give us some tips that nurses should consider when applying to a nursing agency? Of course we have Connetics and we have O’Grady, both excellent choices. How should they be deciding if they want to come with us or another company? …

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Reasons To Choose PTE Exam Over Other English Tests

Reasons To Choose PTE Exam Over Other English Tests In your experience, have you seen nurses taking advantage of taking some of these alternate exams now that they’re acceptable. What’s been the trend that you’ve seen?  What I’ve noticed is people think that  easier just because the band score equivalents …

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The Relationship Between CGFNS and English Language Proficiency (ELP) Explained

CGFNS and ELPS: Explaining the Relationship Between What is the relationship between CGFNS and ELPS? Yep. Good question, Holly. So, as I mentioned earlier, the, we’re looking at a bunch of different criteria to determine whether your experience education is comparable to that of a domestically trained nurse or other …

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Do Native English-Speakers Have To Take the English Test To Get a Visa?

Do Native English-Speakers Have To Take the English Test To Get a Visa? “Belize is an English speaking country. So I was educated in English and all my documents are in English, I speak only English, do I still need to take the English exam? In order to get my …

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Steps To Working as a Foreign Nurse in the US

Steps To Working as a Foreign Nurse in the US Are there any basic requirements that they need to do before applying to work in the US? You have to do your NCLEX exam, which is the Nursing exam in the United States, you have to have an English exam. …

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Important Considerations Before Accepting a Nursing Job Offer in the USA

Important Considerations Before Accepting a Nursing Job Offer in the USA Meg mentioned some of the items that you can get in your job offer. She mentioned the pay rates, if there’s any shift differentials, some of the benefits like assistance in locating housing, an air ticket, coverage of the …

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10 Rules for Managing Credit Responsibly

10 Rules for Managing Credit Responsibly The first thing you have to do is establish a credit report or credit history. Without that you can’t make any progress should always pay as agreed. And we talked about utilization rate that balance to limit ratio, keeping that as low as possible. …

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