International Medical Development Corp. “IMED CORP
“International Recruitment Program”
Overview
IMED CORP International Recruitment program has been successfully recruiting foreign trained healthcare workers since 1998 for some of the largest healthcare systems in United States.
Amongst these HCA, Tenet, Mercy Hospitals, HolyCross, Baptist Hospital Systems, Kindred Hospitals, Doctor’s Hospital, Panamerican Hospital, Grameercy Hospital, Weschester Hospital, Presbyterian Hospitals and many other stand alone hospitals and/or clinics in Florida, Texas, New Mexico, and Eastern and Westward States.
IMED CORP program includes all the essential steps, starting with recruitment and ending with orientation that places the individual in IMED CORP client facilities, legal and ready to work. IMED Corp offers nurses and employers the means and ways to come to terms serving as a negotiator between both employer and nurses.
It offer hospital employers the guarantee of the quality of professional identified, profiled and recruited on behalf of the hospital; including an ‘unlimited, no-fault replacement guarantee for 1 year for nursing personnel.
The longest unlimited guarantee offered by an agent working with hospital employers.
Every nurse seeking registration and relocation to USA hospitals through IMED Corp. must be committed to at least 12 consecutive months of employment, without exceptions, except in case of State/Federal and/or death in family of close blood-related relatives.
IMED Corp. at the same time is equally committed to each relocating nurse offering transitioning support; amongst this support free or reimbursed traveling from country of origin to final State of employment by paying or reimbursement for such traveling, housing assist support by coordinating housing/apt rental, overlooking leasing and best terms for nurses, and looking after them for the best and most economical vehicle purchasing; additionally, IMED Corp support nurses seeking licensing and registration with the States’ Nursing Board communicating directly with Board on behalf of each nurse until nurse receive a Registered Nurse State License.
All IMED Corp services are free of charge to all participating nurses.
Transportation from arriving airports to housing, employers sites, and public agencies for driving licensing, light/water utilities registration, first day groceries, and general city tour and traveling to/from work prior to day one at work, etc. is offered too free.
Coordination of all steps and stages needed to successfully employers screening, Video-Resume interviewing, pre-employment processes and employee orientation and first-day-on-the-job employment.
IMED Corp Video-Resume screening ensures that both employers and nurses are a long lasting match with mutual commitment and legally responsible to each other.
IMED CORP has infrastructure to support a high volume contract under its Contingency and Retainer corporate plans. The first plan ‘contingency’ is the most commonly accepted by most hospitals.
Most hospital employers do not accept ‘up front payments for recruiting efforts by any firm for several reasons.
Number being the risk involved in paying for services that cannot be guaranteed when employing foreign educated healthcare professionals from any country; even Puerto Rico and other USA territories.
Contingency recruitment means recruiting agents like IMED Corp do not get paid until nurse pass probation periods, and recruiting fees are refundable when healthcare professionals are terminated for valid reasons, resigned or else.
IMED CORP global strategy, centralized expertise and a program that minimizes risk to the facility make it a win-win situation for hospitals and nurses.
IMED Corp takes great care in identifying, profiling and recruiting only those nurse who meet all the employer, State and IMED expectations.
Mainly, all nurses are required without exceptions the following:
- Nurse registration – ADN or BSN degree from accredited nursing college/university
- Nurse registration with the National Council State Board of Nursing in USA
- Pass TOEFL –verbal and written English test –expected score only
- Pass NCLEX exam
- Exception to NCLEX exam - 2 consecutive years nurse experience
IMED CORP also recruits registered Nurses, Radiology and Rehab professionals, Pharmacists and laboratory personnel from local and international markets. All candidates must comply with USA licensing requirements.
Salaries, Benefits, Bonuses and other stipends
Nursing salary are estimated using standards from the USA Labor Department and all nurses, national or foreign once licensed as RN for any State, must be paid the same salaries offered to nurse of equal specialty and experience without exception. How much one specialty and another is paid depends of many factors; these factors vary from State to State and fluctuate amongst regions depending on the laws of ‘supply’ and ‘demand”.
On average most nurse earn base salaries almost 2x times the average salary; real salaries range from the low $50’s to the high $90,000, plus benefits which in real terms puts nurses salaries above $100,000 annually.
Fringe benefits given out by employers include hospital/medical insurance for the nurse and family member, dental and visual insurance. Some insurance require a small payment from nurses, other are entirely free.
Holiday, extra-shifts, weekend and nights/evening differential pay scales
Additionally, nurses get paid for most holidays, usually over 12 each year at the rate of 1 1/2 times hourly wages for extra shifts, for shifts on weekends, nights and evening shifts.
This additional compensation adds a substantial yearly amount that may range from the low $10,000 to the high $30,000 annually.
In total the annual non-cash compensations given by hospitals to nurses is estimated natioanally at about 1\3 of the cash salary paid to nurses, or up $ 30,000 yearly; this includes contributions to retirement and pensions collected by nurses upon retirement or termination or vesting rights date.
Median annual earnings of registered nurses were $57,280 in May 2006. The middle 50 percent earned between $47,710 and $69,850.
The lowest 10 percent earned less than $40,250, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $83,440.
Median annual earnings in the industries employing the largest numbers of registered nurses in May 2006 were:
| Employment services | $64,260 |
| General medical and surgical hospitals | 58,550 |
| Home health care services | 54,190 |
| Offices of physicians | 53,800 |
| Nursing care facilities | 52,490 |
Many employers offer flexible work schedules, child care, educational benefits, and bonuses.
Nursing is a highly regarded profession.
A 2004 Gallup Poll announced that the public again voted nurses number one for "honesty and ethical standards of various professions."
(source:Gallup Poll)
International Recruitment Efforts Program
IRE - IMED
The following outlines the technical and business elements of IMED CORP International Recruitment Efforts Program.
IMED Corp unique global strategy provides all the relocating support needed by foreign educated nurses seeking employment in United States. Our mission is open the opportunity as many nurses as possible and help the nation alleviate today’s shortages.
The impending nurses shortage becomes a reality for each us as we get older or need critical and emergency healthcare and IMED Corp is committed to identify and recruit viable professional nurses seeking a better lifestyle in USA.
- Amongst our support IMED offers the following:
- Reimbursed air traveling expense
- Pick up and transportation to housing
- Transportation to hospitals
- Introduction employers and terms negotiation
- Educations and certifications support
- Vehicle negotiation/third-party vehicle loan assistance
- Assisted housing leasing
- Home buying assistance
- Application for licensing registration
- NCLEX exam support through affiliate NCLEX MASTERS (www.nclex-masters.com)
We recruit healthcare professionals from the following regions in Latin America and the Caribbean Basin, Asia, India and the Philippines, as well as South Africa.
Countries with asterisk indicate International Training Centers and TOEFL, CGFNS, and NCLEX preparation programs lasting no less than 10 months.
Other countries programs lasting less than 10 months.
Venezuela Uruguay Puerto Rico Colombia Argentina Peru Chile Mexico* Canada Brazil Philippines India
Relocation Processing
A member of the IMED CORP International Recruitment department verifies all related documents for IMED CORP facilities, after verifying accuracy and appropriateness of the contents and compliance with contracted terms all nurses are notified of employment offers in writing.
Employment Offers extended in writing by hospitals must be accepted or declined within 15 days from presentation.
A copy of all documents is kept in the IMED CORP office and all correspondence and key information is logged into IMED CORP tracking system.
Family Involvement
IMED CORP acknowledges the critical role that the family has on a foreign trained applicant’s adjustment to the U.S.A. life style while away from home. We address this need on the initial contact with the candidate and on going during the process.
The family composition is determine from our initial profiling of each nurse to minimize those variables affecting the transitional process of each nurse.
Communication-Assessment of English Skills
During the initial contact with the applicant an assessment of their ability to communicate in English is conducted via several placement test and verbal interviews quantify each nurse potential for learning a new language within the program time frame.
Such assessment may include a Clinical Assessment Test to determine the clinical skills of recent grads attempting the NCLEX. As needed nurses can be given support through IMED Corp and Nclex Masters ( www.nclex-masters.net )
All initial interviews are conducted in English using a standardized formats by English speaking Interviewers from IMED Corp. English communication and clinical skills are score from from 1 to 10, being the score a 10.
IMED CORP pre-testing methodology assists in determining their ability to understand the English language basic components in reading, comprehension, grammar and verbal expression similar in many way to English standards used by international English exams.
All candidates are required to take and pass English TOEFL that evaluate their writing, speaking, reading and overall English skills.
The maximum TOEFL score is demanded from all participants to the International Nurse Program as requisite to continue in IMED CORP International Nurses Program.
Additional TOEFL or English audio-video preparation lab practice is offered FREE to all IMED Corp participating nurses. Please visit www.nclex-masters.net/pass_toefl
English skills levels are assessed several times throughout the duration of the program; all candidates are interviewed via telephone by native English speaking recruiters prior to submission of a Video-Resume and an interviewing session with Human Resources authorities.
Over-the-phone interviewing is done prior and after successfully passing TOEFL examinations in their places of origin.
All migrating nurses are expected to be fully bilingual upon their arrival to USA facilities, and to continue into advanced English classes for no less than 6 months after arrival to USA as part of contractual terms and requisites of admission to the International Nurses program.
Interview Assessment and Arrival Procedure
The candidate’s orientation begins on initial contact with IMED CORP recruiting personnel and is ongoing during the process and last beyond their placement with each facility to monitor performance and track retaining rates for up to three years.
The local IMED Corp office represents the employment facility when the candidate arrives in the U.S.A.
Designated office staff member greets the candidate at the airport and assists them by transporting them to hospital designated housing units when available.
Additional assistance is provided to help new arrival in obtaining as social security number, opening a bank account, registering for light/water utilities, buying food and other necessities, as well as, acculturating to a new society’s values.
A welcome brochure with information about the city of arrival, public transportations, shopping malls, and much more is given to nurses on arrival to USA.
All nurses are transported to and from hospitals for up to (4) weeks after arrival while taking driving school instruction.
- When the applicant first enrolls in IMED CORP program, we assign them to an IMED CORP recruiter or placement specialist who maintains communication with the individual on a consistent basis.
- Prior to deployment, to the U.S.A., each medical professional receives an orientation on the U.S. This includes:
- Flying in a airplane and transfer procedures
- Clearing immigration and customs
- Obtaining a social security number and the role it plays in their ability to work
- Opening a bank account, paying bills and how to use a checking account
- Credit Cards
- Housing procedures, utilities and phone connections
- Long distance calls
- Public transportation and getting around until a drivers license is obtained
- Driving schools and how to obtain a drivers license.
Education
- A critical component of IMED CORP successful recruitment of foreign trained personnel is the medical related education of all foreign personnel.
- IMED CORP recognizes this need and has instituted a variety of initiatives that contribute to IMED CORP success.
- IMED CORP Director of International Training and Development in USA coordinates IMED CORP Education program in foreign countries by visiting IMED CORP training centers several times a year and monitoring via Online the progress of each RN preparing for the TOEFL, CGFNS and NCLEX exams.
- Foreign instructors hold medical degrees and/or hold advanced degrees in Adult Education from prestigious universities.
- Foreign instructors have a thorough understanding of CGFNS/NCLEX exams and have reviewed and studied books that have been printed by major publishing companies on these topics.
- Foreign instructors have successfully trained and taught instruction for CGFNS/NCLEX bilingual preparation and review.
- IMED CORP employs American published books for NCLEX preparation.
Bulletin Board Access – IMED CORP host a web site, and Online NCLEX preparation test at www.Nclex-Masters.net as affiliate offers over 1000 questions and answers for the NCLEX preparation stages, as well as, Online English Skills Preparation program accessible FREE to all IMED participating nurses.
Through this site, IMED CORP candidates are provided bulletin board access. The site offers the candidate the ability to pose questions about the various examinations, learn more about the latest trends, access updated education material, find links related to examinations, practice test-taking skills, access announcements, express concerns and find clinical information related to nursing intervention in USA.
Evaluations.
IMED CORP evaluates the progression of participating candidates through the process on monthly basis. This is accomplished through IMED CORP tracking system. In this report we provide the timeframe between the following events:
- Interview & initiation of Visa Processing
- Initiation of Visa processing and date visa granted
- Date visa granted and arrival to the U.S.A
- Practice testing
IMED CORP analysis of 2000 and 2004 arrivals indicates that the total time between the candidate’s interview and arrival to the U.S.A. averaged the following months per country:
Nurses from Puerto Rico on average arrive to USA within 90 days from registration to IMED’s relocation program depending on : 1) degree of communication, 2) RN licensure process ( Endorsement or NCLEX exam ).
Option only for those nurses graduated in Puerto Rico who have registration as nurses with Puerto Rico’s Nursing Board – Colegio de Profesionales de Enfermeria- and have worked nurse two (2) consecutive year prior application for nursing license in USA and are fully bilingual.
Option to all nurses graduated in Puerto Rico who have registration as nurses with Puerto Rico’s Nursing Board – Colegio de Profesionales de Enfermeria- and who have not yet worked nurses prior to applying for nursing license in USA and are fully bilingual.
All nurses must demonstrate English communication skills – both verbal and written – by passing the The of English of Foreign Language – TOEFL without exception.
A critical aspect of any foreign recruitment program is the communication the English verbal and written skills demonstrated by nurses seeking relocation to USA.
Most hospitals will decline a nurse whose communication sounds weak to be part of the healthcare team.
Relocation Time to USA
On average nurses from Puerto Rico relocate to USA within 3 months from
registration to IMED’s program if fuly bilingual.
Video-Resume Presentation
All nurses particpating in IMED Corp. relocation program to USA must submit to
IMED Corp for approval and editing as needed, a Video-Resume produced by the
participating nurse within 15 days from registration to maintain an active registration
status with IMED Corp.
IMED Corp in affiliation with higher learning institutions in Puerto Rico will seek to
provide online English reinforcing skills and/or preparation for the TOEFL exam.
No Visa Process for Nurses from Puerto Rico
The length of the immigrant visa process and the varied requirements to qualify for academic accreditation, CGFNS and NCLEX exam taking, and TOEFL demands on going communication between candidates and IMED CORP recruiting personnel.
- Candidates – Each applicant who enrolls in IMED CORP program is assigned to an International Liaison Specialist who communicates with the several applicants from recruitment to placement.
- This communication starts within days after the initial registration of the candidate to IMED CORP International Nurses Program. IMED CORP personnel contact candidate on a bi-weekly based schedule to assure compliance with all steps of the process and submission of documentation needed from the applicant nurse.
- All candidates are provided with an email address to enhance communication and tranference of documentation or files as needed.
- IMED CORP email at Info@IMED CORP.com are also given access to IMED CORP internet bulletin board site that allows them to communicate with other candidates, receive educational updates and information.
- IMED CORP Educational Online NCLEX preparation website is provided free to all applicant nurses. IMED CORP Online NCLEX preparation website provide the following didactic and informational advantages:
a. Information on their Online-Practice test scores to qualify them to take the necessary exams. Includes a plan for studying, and monitoring test-taking progress is based on the results from Online-Practice testing.
IMED CORP Placement Specialists
Liaison Placement Specialists communicate with each hospital/facility and candidate on an ongoing basis.
Communication regarding arrivals starts 3 months prior to arrival. Once the visa is granted arrangements begin for their departure to the U.S.A. All arriving nurses are offered assisted housing accommodation.
Housing is not provided by IMED Corp.; however, some hospitals may offered that option.
All arrivals are coordinated with facilities and takes into account the facilities and candidates readiness and the hospitals Orientation Schedule.
a. IMED CORP international tracking system provides valuable reports to all facilities regarding the status of contracted foreign nurses. Information is shared with
Clinical Coordinator Educator
- Information on the selection, interview and assessment initially conducted
- Applicants biographical and academic information.
- Clinical information and areas recommend for each nurse upon placement.
- Information for contacting the nurse at country of origin.
- Information regarding the candidate’s pre test scores to qualify to take the exam, review attendance, exam application status, test dates and test results.
- Reports on visa process initiation (petition approval, status on the visa being granted and arrival status. )
- A Philosophy that embraces providing compassionate, quality, holistic advanced nursing education,
- To provide excellence in rendering quality health care, and in providing an environment that promotes human dignity
- To prepare trained nurses who are able to provide quality healthcare globally and function effectively in complex, rapidly changing environments.
- To have a curriculum based on the conviction that the practice of professional nursing is predicated on critical thinking, analytic, reasoning and the ability to critique and construct knowledge.
- The development of competence that advances the individual to higher levels of mastery.
- To emphasize reveal the competencies and abilities of the Latin America Nurses and to prepare them for competitive exams needed for excellent, professional opportunities for carrier development in the United State.
- To develop the verbal skills needed for the full comprehension of English as measured by scores from TOEFL and/or similar scales.
IMED CORP International Recruiting Efforts –IRE
The IMED CORP International Recruiting Efforts -IRE is an extensive 12 month training program to impart Latin American Nurses the necessary skills, knowledge and attitudes required to deliver holistic quality health care in USA facilities.
The program objective, since its inception in 2000, is to identify, profile and recruit foreign nurses and other healthcare professionals seeking employment is USA markets.
IMED CORP began with the identification of professional nurses having the potential to pass all required examinations, amongst these TOEFL, CGFNS and NCLEX exams within the expected time frame.
Ideal candidates for the program were defined as those nurses having the following attributes:
- Nurses with a four year degree in nursing
- Nurses with no less than 2 years of acute clinical experience
- Nurses who successfully passed the TOEFL exam
- Recent graduate nurses who passed the NCLEX exam
Teaching Methods:
- Lectures, discussions and demonstrations by doctors in medicine
- Audio-Visual aids and Online instructional tools
- Extensive, supervised clinical experience in selected areas of the hospital
- Specialty Clinical experience
- Computerized performance check lists
- Periodic classroom and Online Practice Tests
Below is a summary of the clinical skills and nursing preparation expected from nurses.
Some skills and preparation is applicable only to those nurses with 2 years bedside experience.
| | CLINICAL TOPICS | Hours
|
| 1 | CONCEPT OF CRITICAL CARE NURSING | 2 |
| 2 | QUALITIES OF A CRITICAL CARE NURSE | 1 |
| 3 | SET UP OF A CORONARY CARE UNIT | 2 |
| 4 | ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY OF HEART | 2 |
| 5 | CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE | 2 |
| 6 | MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION | 2 |
| 7 | RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE | 2 |
| 8 | CONGESTIVE CARDIAC FAILURE | 2 |
| 9 | HYPERTENSION | 1 |
| 10 | SHOCK | 2 |
| 11 | VASCULAR DISRODERS | 2 |
| 12 | CARDIOMYOPATHIES | 2 |
| 13 | DIABETE & HEART DISEASE | 1 |
| 14 | CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES | 4 |
| 15 | ENDORTRACHEAL INTUBATION | 1 |
| 16 | MECHANICAL VENTILATION | 2 |
| 17 | CARE OF A PATIENT ON VENTILATOR | 1 |
| 18 | OXYGEN THERAPY | 1 |
| 19 | CHEST PHYSIOTHERAPY | 1 |
| 20 | SUCTIONING & BRONCHOSCOPY | 1 |
| 21 | ARTERIAL BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS | 2 |
| 22 | CHEST GRAINAGE | 1 |
| 23 | X RAY SSCHEST INTERPRETATION | 1 |
| 24 | HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING | 4 |
| | - CATHERERS & PRESSURE LINES
- TRANSDUCERS
- ARTERIAL LINES ---- FLUSHING
- MEASUREMENT OF CARDICAC OUT PUT
- C.V.P MONITORING
- P.A.P MONITORING
- P.A.W.P. MONITORING
| |
| 25 | NON INVAISVE CARDIAC MONITORING - E.K.G-----BASIC RECORDING & INTERPRETATION
- INTERPRETATION OF 12 LEAD E.K.G
- HOLTER MONITORING
- STRESS TEST
- ECHOCARDIGRAPHY
- NUCLEAR IMAGING
- CARDIAC SCAN
- P.F.T, TRANS TELEPHONICE. C.G
| 4 |
| 26 | | 2 |
| 27 | INTRA AORTIC BALLOON PUMP | 2 |
| 28 | VENTRICULAR ASIST DEVICES | 2 |
| 29 | | 2 |
| 30 | | 2 |
| 31 | CARE OF PATIENT FOLLOWING CARDIAC SURGERY | 2 |
| 32 | CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION | 4 |
| 33 | CARIDIOVERSION & DEFIBRILLATION | 2 |
| 34 | | 2 |
| 35 | | 1 |
| 36 | | 2 |
| 37 | - PULSE OXYMETER
- DOPPLER MACHINE
- VENTILATOR
- MONITORS
- ECG PAGE WRITER
- BAIR HUGGER & BLANKET ROL
- HEMOTECH INC.
- ALPHA BED
- SYRINGE PUMP
- ABG MACHINE
- GLUCOMETER
- IABP MACHINE
| 2 |
| 38 | COMMUNICATION IN INTENSIVE CARE UNITE | 1 |
| 39 | | 1 |
| 40 | | 1 |
| 41 | | 1 |
| 42 | | 1 |
| 43 | | 2 |
| 44 | | 2 |
45
46 | - PNEUMOTHORAX
- HEMOTRHORAX
- SURGICAL EMPHYSEMA
- CARDIACT TAMPONADE
- INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
ESSENTIAL OF HISTORY TAKING | 2
2 |
| 47 | GENERAL PHYSICAL EXAMINATION | 2 |
| 48 | INTERPRETATION OF DIAGNOSTIC TEST | 2 |
| 49 | CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE & HEMODIALYSIS | 2 |
| 50 | | 2 |
| 51 | | 2 |
| 52 | CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE | 2 |
| 53 | | 2 |
| 54 | | 1 |
| 55 | ANAEMIA & BLOOD TRANSFUSION | 1 |
| 56 | | 2 |
| 57 | | 1 |
| 58 | | 2 |
| 59 | | 2 |
| 60 | | 2 |
| 61 | COMMON BACTERIAL & VIRAL INFECTIONS | 2 |
| 62 | | 1 |
| 63 | | 2 |
| 64 | | 2 |
| 65 | | 2 |
| 66 | MAJOR DISORDER OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM | 3 |
| 67 | MAJOR DISORDERS OF THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM | 2 |
| 68 | MAJOR DISORDERS OF THE INTEGUMENT ARY SYSTEM - BURNS
- CANCER OF SKIN
- CELLULITIS
- DECUBITIS ULCER
- S L E
- SCLERODERMA
| 3 |
| 69 | MAJOR DISRODERS OF NEUROMUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM | 2 |
| 70 | MAYOR DISORDERS OF UNIRARY/REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM | 2 |