Overseas Transition
It can be an intimidating experience to move to a new country. Not only will you be learning new clinical skills, you and your family will need to learn about new cultural and social settings. Our Professional Development Program (PDP) is designed to help prepare not only the healthcare professional, but your family on what to expect in the U.S. The PDP starts while you are still overseas and carries on after you arrive in the U.S. Our goal is to help make you and your family comfortable in your new environment.
The PDP is made up of topics that we have had firsthand experience in. Feedback from our healthcare professionals, hospitals and PPR employees have helped to develop what we think is a program that will help you to be as prepared as possible to work in a U.S. facility. It covers various topics such as idioms, professional/clinical etiquette, finance management, computers, pharmacology, the U.S. Healthcare System, the healthcare professionals' role, communication, patient safety, pain management, assessment and many others.
The program is very simple. PPR will email you every few months. The emails will be a mix of culture and clinical subjects. Basically it's just a way to get as much information about the US to you as possible.
When you obtain your visa PPR will fly you to Jacksonville Beach, FL where PPR's home office is located. You will spend the next week or so in the second part of our PDP-- our Jacksonville Transition Program (JTP). JTP is the next step in preparing you to work in a U.S. hospital. At JTP you participate in hands-on activities that coincide with the topics you have already learned about while you were overseas. You will learn a lot more about JTP as you prepare to come to the US.
Remember, some of the material you will be reviewing will not only benefit you but your family too. Share things with them. Our goal is to make you and your family as comfortable as possible when you arrive here.
