Nursing Specialties Degree Online

If you are a nurse and you want to go somewhere in your career and earn more, all you have to do is do further studies and earn a certificate or degree on a special area in nursing. Sure, you can say that you don't have the time to do it what with all the jobs you're juggling, but the good news is that you can get your degree online! There are loads of schools and universities offering online studies. Here are some specialty degrees that could be your ticket to earning more and saving more!

1. Forensic Nursing - here, you can work in exciting places like doing a crime scene investigation. Been watching those CSI shows on tv? That can soon be you! Plus, you get to earn $55-$300/hour! Great huh?

2. Home Health Care Nurse - most of the members in the aged society want to be taken cared of in the home where their families are close and not in a lonely nursing home with other elders. It's actually a growing phenomenon and you can definitely find a job anywhere from the hospitals to the nursing homes.

3. Legal Nurse Consultant Programs - combines the nursing expertise in the courtrooms, if your heart lies in between these two. These legal nurses are in demand for their expert advice in dealing with difficult criminal or civil cases. Earn $70-$200/hour!

4. Geriatric Care Manager - assisting families and their elderly with long term health care issues is what you do. Get to earn about $74/hour.

On Immigrating: To Hire A Representative Or Not?

Many nurses who have trouble finding employers in the country they'd like to work in are opting to take the migration route. This way, once they arrive at the country of destination, it would be easier to find employers rather than applying from their home country.

Although migrating is an easier choice, it still involves a lot of paperwork and documentation -- something not everyone is good at. To remedy this, there are a few who choose to hire representatives to do all of this for them. But then, you have to cash out a huge sum of money to pay a person or group of people to do something that you can do for yourself (if you have the patience to do it). And there's also the problem of crooked immigration consultants who are only after your money and then disappear faster than a wink of an eye.

Many countries, especially those who are relying in immigrants to fuel their economy, have made the immigrating process easier for those who are interested. So if you're planning to do such a thing, it's better to do your homework first before deciding to hire a representative.

Most countries have a scoring system to determine whether a candidate is eligible for immigration or not. If you think that you are not going to pass the score, it is not wise to create falsified documents from desperation. Many illegal representatives do this and you should know that you are only wasting your time, money and more importantly, you will be tarnishing your reputation. Immigration officers are not very kind and forgiving for such actions so better think twice or even thrice on the subject.

Nurses For Canada -- Closed Until Further Notice

Every nurse around the world -- the ones who want to migrate to Canada, that is -- all eagerly anticipated the re-opening of applications last July 2011 by the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC). And sure enough, the cap was reached in September 20, 2011 -- just shy of three months since July's opening.

Compared to last year, where CIC accepted 1,000 applicants for each NOC category -- including Nurses, they slashed the limit in half for this year. That's a total of 500 applicants for nurses around the world! And with all the nurses sprouting up each year and more wanting to migrate to Canada, it's no wonder that it has reached the cap in a wink of an eye.

Although CIC has stated that it will only accept this amount of applications in 2011, they did also note that if there will be no backlogs in the applications, they could add a couple more before it will again reset in July 2012. For everyone who is hoping that they would change their minds, let's keep our fingers crossed!

A Very Long Absence

I would like to apologize for not keeping this Nursing blog updated regularly. I've been quite busy with work and other hobbies that I've left this one gather dust, figuratively speaking. Good news is that I have plans of writing all the information I've gathered from these couple of years working as a staff nurse. I do hope that you'll be visiting regularly for the updates as well.

See you around!