The Power Of Prayer

 Pray in silence before going to sleep and when you wake up in the morning when is still dark and be grateful for your life, and everything that God gave you. 

The Lord's Prayer 

Our Father which art in heaven.

Hallowed be your name.

Thy Kingdom come.

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive our debts,

as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil:

For thine is the kingdom,

and the power, and the glory, forever.

Amen

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International educated nurses applying to work in the United States as a Registered Nurse

 Congratulations and good luck with your journey. If you possess a bachelor's degree in Nursing and you are registered with your country's board of nursing you will follow these steps:

1. Contact the Board Of Nursing of your choice from the 50 states in the USA and read carefully the requirements for internationally educated nurses. Apply for licensure by exam. (there is a fee). A background check will be also required, and fingerprints and documents.

2. Create an account with the CGFNS International Commission of Graduated Foreign Nurses, they are accepted in all 50 states and it is essential for your credentials evaluations, contact also your School of Nursing which will send your syllabus directly to CGFNS along with the certified translation. Contact also the nursing board to fill out a document and send to CGFNS the registration numbers that certify you worked as an RN in your country,  all documents are to be sent directly to CGFNS.

3. While CGFNS is working on your credential evaluation it is time to register for the English Proficiency test. TOEFL or IELTS. I highly recommend getting their material for preparation for the test. For the test you will need to read and comprehend, listen, speak, and write two essays of 150 words and another of 300 words, again it is very helpful to follow their preparation course or book. The speaking test with TOEFL is recorded and the speaking part of  IELTS is a chat with a person usually on the same day in the afternoon after the morning first part of the test. Minimum score requirements depend on the board's requirements. Good luck with your English test, preparation is very important.

4. Now that you passed the English test and received the CES from CGFNS it is time to register with Person Vue to book your NCLEX by NCSBN. The test is an adaptive test that will offer more complex questions as you choose the correct answers, the more complex and correct answers the better chance to pass the NCLEX. So it is very important to read carefully each word and every line and make the correct credited answer. When you book your test with Person vue NCSBN  to take the NCLEX test, an ATT authorization to test will be sent to you by the board of nursing when you are eligible to take the NCLEX. Some boards will require an online review course to take the NCLEX. 

5. Enroll in a 3 to 6-month review course with Kaplan. I highly recommend this course by Kaplan made from nurses to nurses. They are amazing teachers with many many years of excellent experience preparing nursing students to take the test.  Besides learning a lot of important content review you will learn the strategies of the decision tree and Masllow ABCs priority questions. You will also learn how to pronounce words that might be new with a different sound from your mother language but with the videos, everything seems so familiar your confidence will be high on the test day and you will take many practice tests that will prepare you for the big day. Good luck, pray to remain calm read carefully each question, and ACE the test, meaning PASS the test. 

6. Congratulations you passed the NCLEX, and now you will be able to legally work in the USA as an RN, contact the workforce you will get your work visa or green card, and best of luck on your endeavors.  These three following quotes are from Florence Shinn:

"Every person is a golden link in the chain of my good"

"Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way"

"There is a place that you are to fill and no one can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do" 

"The end of matter is better than its beginning and patience better than pride" The book of Ecclesiastes 

Gardening With Grace And Gratitude

 Gardening is a hobby I've always admired from far. I enjoy looking at the plants and flowers and admiring their spectacular colors, bright vivid colors, and all the lush green leaves, the tender baby leaves we want to gently touch and smell their flowers with unforgettable fragrance like The Lady of The Night which is a small tree or shrub with a purple small flower that fades away into pale and smells so sweet after six in the evening. At night their flowers are fluorescent.

My grandmother had snake plants, and my mother had ferns in their living rooms. I sometimes helped water them. In Gratitude and Grace, they release my favorite smell on Earth which is the smell of wet dirt. It is definitely one of the most satisfying smells that makes my mouth water and almost want to taste it.

It wasn't until lately while working at The Home Depot in Garden Center, that I had the chance to get in touch with an enormous variety of plants and so many customers interested in plants asking me all kinds of questions or teaching me all about the favorite flowers for the bees, Monarch butterflies, and hummingbirds. I was so curious about all that stirring around the fantastic world of gardening that I started to search for answers, in our app, in other words, on our work phones we had quick access to all kinds of learning from all departments and games which I found so cool. I've learned so much and thought that for the first time, I could have my own little garden. I now have a collection of house plants including snake plants, fiddle leaf figs, croutons, and palm trees.

A green thumb is something we all possess and is easy to take care of the plants with a little Google search and by admiring the plant and watching it grow. Usually requiring very low maintenance, they require a little water every week and some light just placing it by the window.

For outside plants, I enjoy Lantanas and zinnias, during the summer, and during the winter the pansies are my favorite. Pansies flowers have a painting on their petals that looks like an angel with open flying wings. Shakespeare mentions pansies in his Midnight Summer Dream poem:

."I fell upon a little western flower; Before, milk-white, now purple with love's wound and maidens call it 'love-in-idleness'.Fetch me that flower; the herb I showed thee once. The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid Will make or man or woman madly dote  Upon the next live creature that it sees. Fetch me this herd, and be thou here again Ere the levithan can swim a league'