Good news as nurses agency in deal with top medical college, to offer international jobs
Nurses in Kenya have every reason to smile after a consultant firm started offering international nursing courses to have them employed in the United States.
This is after Australia, Canada and the United States announced massive nursing job opportunities to be filled.
And this revelation has seen the Kenyan Nurse Consultants Limited (KNCL) enter a working partnership with St. Elizabeth Medical and Technical College Mukumu in Kakamega county where nurses wishing to work abroad will be registered, tested and certified to become United States Registered Nurses (USRN).
The Kenyan Nurse Consultants Limited recruitment manager Justice Justus while holding an educational workshop at the Mukumu nursing training college, broke the news to the learners who are seeking overseas jobs.
The consultants educated them on how to enroll, the needed requirements and benefits of registering with the firm and becoming a qualified USRN.
The manager said they had also partnered with several technocrats in the health, education and training sectors that will be able to test, approve and certify candidates to be USRN through crafted online tests that would mould the nurses for the foreign market.
“We are working with a team of medical experts including the founder of ReMar Review Professor Regina Callion who is behind the 6 months comprehensive NCLEX V2 training course for the nurses wishing to work abroad,” said Justus.
He explained how the training process takes place with their aim of traversing all the 47 counties with already West Pokot, Trans Nzoia, Bungoma, Vihiga and now Kakamega already covered.
“First, for one to be a qualified USRN, he needs to undertake these four vigorous steps starting with the Nclex training usually takes 6 months, then the Commission of Graduates of Foreign Nursing School (CGFNS) that will document and validate the nurse’s academic manuscripts, passports and nursing license,” he revealed.
The nurses will be required to register with a particular State they wish to work in as a USRN considering US has over 50 States in need of nurses and it is upon each URSN to choose which states best suits them.
Explaining why the nursing fraternity in the country should embrace them, he said they do not prolong the learning process compared to other bodies that requires nurses willing to apply for foreign opportunities to have 2/3 years’ experience in a 300/400 bed capacity facility to qualify to undertake the Nclex exam.
“We are self –sponsored and this gives the ultimate power to the learner and this makes them move faster to handling issues such as visa screening and processing. And as a consultants, we are doing the linking up of the foreign jobs to the local nurses through our tailor made learning processes and we are encouraging more nurses to consider grabbing these opportunities, besides, we do vetting of the employing companies, legal documentations, contract terms to ensure they are compatible and favourable to our nurses,” he added.
At the same time, they cautioned nurses against falling victims to fraudulent and unscrupulous nursing agencies who are siphoning cash from them and do not honour their pledges of connecting the nurse to the promised overseas job markets.
“We are aware that most nurses have had a challenge in passing the Nclex exam hence the founder of the Remar review coming up with a simplified exam for the nurses, we are doing this to assist the nurses aiming to work outside the country,” added the official.
For the last one year, agency has seen over 1000 nurses joining their consultants firm and with a few already absorbed into the job market, majority are undergoing visa screening and testing processes.
The deputy principal St. Elizabeth Medical and Technical Training College Mukumu, Pamela Musinzi hailed the to –be –soon partnership with agency as it will not only promote the name of the college to the international level but also economically as more foreign exchange would be channeled back into the country.
“Nursing is a noble job that if taken seriously one can soar high and wide globally, the Mukumu fraternity is happy to be part of this wonderful journey and the sooner we sign this memorandum of understanding (M.O.U) the better for us as a college and we are looking forward to better this profession with your input and regain its lost glory,” she said.
