Want to study abroad

[brainlessjon]

Hello, I am currently living in Missouri and would like to know if a Registered Nurse would be a transferable job? Could I study and complete my degree in Japan? Is then medical field open to foriegn nationals much like the USA's? Could there possibly be a position in a clinic that attends to english speaking clients that would justify my position?

If not what type of jobs OTHER THAN TEACHING are in need?

Of course I will learn japanese! I am currently working on that in my spare time but without being able to hear native speakers I am afraid of picking up bad habits or an accent.

[dimwit]

Nursing in Japan does require a license and the criteria are similar to those in North America. Whether an American license is transferable is a question I don't have and answer to. There is a major shortage of nurses here.

I would suggest that you connect:

http://www.nurse.or.jp/jna/english/index.html

Good Luck.

[Greji]

There is a major shortage of nurses here.

There seems to be a great shortage of the student nurse staff at Jikkei University Hospital. It apparently occurred on or about the date that Mulboyne came to visit me when I was hospitalized there. I wonder.....

[dimwit]

There seems to be a great shortage of the student nurse staff at Jikkei University Hospital. It apparently occurred on or about the date that Mulboyne came to visit me when I was hospitalized there. I wonder.....

which might not necessarily be a bad thing.

[Charles]

I don't quite understand your question. Are you currently licensed as an RN, or are you studying towards your RN?

I used to work with a lot of nursing students from Japan who came to my US university for study, they gave me the impression that US medical training was much more rigorous than what they got in Japan, and that's why they came here. On the other hand, the language barrier in medicine is relatively high, and most of the exchange students had relatively high levels of English ability, much better than most of the exchange students I ever met. I suspect that if your own Japanese ability isn't near native levels, you wouldn't get much out of RN training in Japan.

[brainlessjon]

Actualy my wife is currently enrolled in nursing school and I had planned to do the same this next semester. I was looking around for schools that offered Japanese as a foriegn langage minor. How fluent should I expect to be from a college classroom? I notice here in the US there are a lot of forgien medical staff. Would Japan allow forgien hospital workers?

Do you know of any clinics that tend to english speaking clients? American, British, etc.?

[brainlessjon]

What other jobs are in high demand in Japan?

[Mulboyne]

[brainlessjon]

What jobs or job fields have openings for gaijin? I mean is IT and teaching all there is?

Since my wife and I are American I understand that we are limited as to what visa we can get. What would be the best way to beat the immagration/ getting a job game?

[brainlessjon]

Also after looking through the teaching engrish threads I started to wonder. Would an english teaching job sponser my spouse and I? If the teaching company sponsers the visa could I hold another job while there? Or even get hired at another company and tell the teaching program to shove it? Sorry about the number of posts. I just have a lot of questions.....

[cstaylor]

Is your spouse not Japanese? If not, why do you want to work here?

[brainlessjon]

Because my wife and I are both products of mitiary households. We have moved around stateside a lot. Neither of us are used to living in one place for more than four years. I was hoping to travel without seeing just tourist destinations. You know live there for some years and actual see if I like it.

[maninjapan]

Why bother with an American IT specialist when they can ship in people from India for about 1/4 of the price?

[Taro Toporific]

Hello, I am currently living in Missouri and would like to know if a Registered Nurse would be a transferable job? Could I study and complete my degree in Japan?

Nope. A US degree for an RN would not transfer to Japan unless you attended school in Japan for several years and passed the JAPANESE exam for RN. However, if you are so brilliant that you could pass the Japanese licence requirements for an RN, you might as while take one of the many medical (MD) scholorships for foreigners that are available here.

In theory you "could" attempt to study and complete your RN degree in Japan, but very few people have been able to do this.

Japan has an association of foreign nurses---try googling it for the real info (not just my hazy memory of the sorrows Philipina nurses have told me while drinking).]http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin/topic12/tpc12_1.htm[/url] " Japan allows foreign nurses to practice if the nurse passes the licensing exam [in Japanese]"

(Japanese Nursing Association websitepublishes an English language newsletter twice a year as well as publications in Japanese.
http://www.nurse.or.jp/jna/english/