No nursing travel agency will send you anywhere without at least a year of experience in a BIG hospital (not some small town general hospital). There are NO travel agencies that send to the DR although I have a colleague that when to Aruba...and Hawaii is possible.
Your best bet is to commute (from DR to USA), it is possible (I do it) but you will not be able to be a travel nurse for a while. Finish your schooling and take your first job at a big name hospital and work 1 year, then you will be ok.
SHALENA
I have a school nurse position in Santiago
jmnorr is only using an already existing thread to mention he/she has a school nurse position, hardly keeping the message forums filled up.gee wiz, a post 7 1/2 years old. can't wait to see what the next one resurected will be.
got to keep the message forums filled up.
You like to eat on a regular basis, enjoy having electricity, there will be no car, like long hours, primitive working conditions, near total lack of personal protective gear? You'll love nursing here. Opps, one last is you need to wash out your rubber gloves and hang them up to dry so you can use them again tomorrow.*
I am a Canadian nurse looking to work in the DR. Anyone have any advice?
*There are Canadian companies such as Barrick Resources that have large industrial operations in the DR. Don't know of they have a full time nurse on staff at their minesite but it may be worth checking into. I have friends who worked as travelling nurses in places like Hawaii and the BVI. Excellent pay and benefits and great places to use a travel bases during your time off. Also check out the international schools in the DR. Don't know if they have a full time nurse on staff but it's worth a try.*do you have more info on this position? I just joined and cannot DM yet. Thanks
If you expect to make a living here with the nursing profession, I think you'll be sorely disappointed. Nurses here make much less than unskilled home care techs in North America. There just isn't any respect for the position here, as doctors call all the shots and run the hospitals. If you want to live your life here as a low-paid bedpan technician, then by all means get your Residency and then apply for a paying job.