Tag Archives: CGFNS

Techniques for any Nurse or Nursing Student who is not a native English speaker.

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Joe Niemczura, RN, MS

This will be brief. I wrote a piece on my other blog that describes how to use the settings feature of YouTube to improve your language skills before taking NCLEX, or starting nursing school in USA. I have found that … Continue reading →

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Feb 20th, 2015 Read this if you are thinking of working or living in Australia

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Joe Niemczura, RN, MS

Feb 21st 2015 UPDATE: This blog entry got about a thousand hits in the first day, including hundreds from Australia. The nurses of Nepal are very interested in keeping open the possibility of going abroad for further study, or for … Continue reading →

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my License as an R.N. in Nepal, making videos of nursing education

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Joe Niemczura, RN, MS

Jan 2012 – please consider subscribing to my current blog. This Kathmandu blog is not active anymore, now that the 2011 trip to Nepal is history. August 2, 2011 Today’s program was not very ambitious. I still have a dry cough … Continue reading →

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Nurse wages in Nepal and the outmigration of Nepali nurses

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Joe Niemczura, RN, MS

UPDATE June 2019 even after eight years this is one of the most-read entries on this blog. If you are serious about going abroad, here are some tips to improve English language that you can try: https://wp.me/p1Kwij-rB 7836  views as … Continue reading →

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“Joe! Stop and Smell the Incense!”

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Joe Niemczura, RN, MS

High Water Update Today the Bagmati River receded about a foot, but the rains continue intermittently, so the hundreds of squatters living in bamboo and blue tarp shacks on the river bank at Thapathali are still living a tenuous existence. … Continue reading →

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