I believe that PUCMM and UTESA both have nursing schools, have to check though. But as said before, the nursing schools here will not prepare her to be a nurse in the States. She will fail the NCLEX, definitely.
But if she wants to try then more power to her, its not impossible but it will take a lOng time.
First, while waiting to get to the States she can go to nursing school here. Then she will need to graduate and become a Registered Nurse (this is the bachelor one), there are a few nurse programs here called "technica" I think that is not the equivalent of a bachelor's prepared nurse. She needs to have practiced for at least 2 years here to be even able to qualify or apply for the US.
She will need to pass the English proficiency test. And I've heard from foreign nurses that I work with that you even lose points on that test if you spell color as "colour" and little crap like that so she needs to be on point with her English.
She may need to take the Foreign nurses refresher course, and then she will have to take the NCLEX whic is the national exam for US nurses. Even though I passed when I took mine I cried after because I thought I had failed. The NCLEX is difficult as it feels out what you DON'T know and asks you more questions on that, once you answer certain questions right, it no longer asks you questions in that category. But maybe it as changed, I took it 14 years ago so who knows?
In my opinion, her biggest challenges will be the English and the NCLEX. I have found that in the Dominican Republic they teach nurses how to follow orders. They are not required as US nurses are, to think on their own. And many times they do not know WHY they are doing something. The NCLEX is big on pathology, the WHY you do something, etc. In the DR, ost nurses will not be in trouble if they followed a doctor's order and the patient died. In the US, the nurse is EXPECTED to know if the doctor's order is feasible, and if she carries out that order, being a nurse, and the patient died...she could lose her license or be sanctioned as well as the doctor. And unfortunately, the DR doesn't teach nursing that way. US nurses catch MD incorrect orders hundreds of times in their nursing careers, in the DR, they are taught what to do but not why and that will put her behind in the US.
But it can be done. My recommendation, if she wants to start working quickly is to become a CNA. There is a huge need for CNAs in the US and there are programs here in DR that prepare you for that career. My part-time housekeeper is taking one, I paid for it for her and she loved it and now she has gone further and is taking the program to become a pharmaceutical technician where she will be able to work in a pharmacy or be a pharmaceutical sales rep. CNAs in the US make decent money and the overtime is abundant, maybe try that.
SHALENA
