Transfering nursing education

[JL818 18]

Anyone here know if it is common for nursing education in the Philippines to be rejected in the US (specifically California). There seem to be a lot of small, random technical colleges in the Philippines, and I didn't know if the reputation of these programs are considered to be suspect here in the US. I am hoping that my fiancee who has a bachelors degree from the Philippines that allows her to sit for the Philippines nursing board will not have to redo her education from scratch so that she can sit for the NCLEX exam once she arrives in the US.

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California is having concurrency issues. If she does they are sitting for NCLEX/PN instead of RN and then going to school online and getting what they need to be RN. In USA you only need a 2 year community college degree to be a RN, coming from Pi you need a BSN. Some people are taking classes to make up for the missing classes.

California Board of Nursing is in shambles at the moment, a few years ago the Governer Of California fired almost all the staff of the Board of Nursing for incompetence and corruption.

My wife had no issues getting authorization to test in Texas for NCLEX a few months ago.

[jebetot 9]

BSN degree holders in the Phil can take NCLEX -PN only not NCLEX -RN. They have to undergo 3-6 months refresher course to be able to qualify fot NCLEX-RN exam. ?

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Anyone here know if it is common for nursing education in the Philippines to be rejected in the US (specifically California).

No it not common in USA, only common in California and few other states, not rejected but have to take some more classes.

You can look at moving to another state, Reports are that nurse even with experience are having difficult finding work in California.

California political view of being liberal the last few years has hurt California and a lot of companies have left California.

I was spent some time in Los Angles and San Francisco I was shocked to see how dirty LA has become and so many homeless people there, and San Francisco is dirty and smells like sewer. Amazing what has become of these two cities in the last decade.

[minions2 24]

Rules become stricter because something not right happened. There were some submitting fake credentials. Nursing schools are everywhere in the Philippines, just make sure it is accredited by DepEd

[JL818 18]

No it not common in USA, only common in California and few other states, not rejected but have to take some more classes.

You can look at moving to another state, Reports are that nurse even with experience are having difficult finding work in California.

California political view of being liberal the last few years has hurt California and a lot of companies have left California.

I was spent some time in Los Angles and San Francisco I was shocked to see how dirty LA has become and so many homeless people there, and San Francisco is dirty and smells like sewer. Amazing what has become of these two cities in the last decade.

Thanks for your reply. To be fair, I think SF has always been a sewer, haha.

[Hitman619 0]

it helps if he is already a Local Board Passer RN working in the Philippines. If he is fresh graduate non RN it will be can get difficult as all the stars must align paper wise. Some people from my batch 2012 got approved and some had to take their boards at different states or apply for LVN.

[Tahoma 2,292]

The biggest obstacle for foreign-trained nurses to be accepted to sit for the NCLEX-RN is concurrency. In a nutshell, more and more state boards of nursing are requiring the clinicals and the course work to be done at the same time. California is one of those states. After my wife, Chinook, endorsed her license in Washington State, our state adopted the concurrency requirement.

The other issue is the local boards. More state boards of nursing are requiring foreign-trained nurses to have passed their local boards.

Here in Washington State, nurses with a four-year BSN degree have much better job prospects and receive better wages. I'm guessing that's also the case in other states.

[Tahoma 2,292]

The concurrency requirement has been in place for a few years now. I don't know whether the nursing schools in 'pinas have adjusted their nursing programs to align with the concurrency requirement.

[JL818 18]

I believe that my fiancee did have to take coursework and her clinicals concurrently with her coursework. However, I'm not 100% sure, and I'll have to ask her. However, she has not passed her board exams in the Philippines yet and she will not be able to pass them before coming to the US.

Assuming that her education might not transfer over 100%, would it make sense for her to continue studying for the Philippines boards while in the US and fly back to try to pass it, or would it not make a lot of sense?

Or would it be better for her to study and for and pass the exam in one of the states outside of California, and would she be able to transfer the license from another state to California?

Sorry, not really well versed in this topic, since I am not in the healthcare field, but I'm trying to do some preliminary research for her.

[Tahoma 2,292]

I believe that my fiancee did have to take coursework and her clinicals concurrently with her coursework. However, I'm not 100% sure, and I'll have to ask her. However, she has not passed her board exams in the Philippines yet and she will not be able to pass them before coming to the US.

Assuming that her education might not transfer over 100%, would it make sense for her to continue studying for the Philippines boards while in the US and fly back to try to pass it, or would it not make a lot of sense?

Or would it be better for her to study and for and pass the exam in one of the states outside of California, and would she be able to transfer the license from another state to California?

Sorry, not really well versed in this topic, since I am not in the healthcare field, but I'm trying to do some preliminary research for her.

Assuming that your fiancée plans on working as an RN in California:

The first thing to find out is whether the California Board of Nursing requires foreign-trained nurses to have passed their local boards in order to sit for the NCLEX-RN. Check out their web site or call them.

This is important because, if California has that requirement, then they will not endorse a license from a state that does not have that requirement.

If California requires her to have passed her local boards, she can return to the Philippines and take the board exam. Then she can apply to sit for the NCLEX-RN through the California Board of Nursing. By that time, she will have a Social Security number, which is another one of their requirements.

I don't know whether California evaluates transcripts in house, or whether CGFNS does it. Either way, as part of the application process, her transcripts will be evaluated. I hope she does not have concurrency issues. I don't know enough about the process to say whether there is a way to find out in advance whether there will be concurrency issues.

[delish 29]

This topic greatly interests me. I did my NCLEX-RN exam for CA last 2008 and i failed it. I was a licensed RN at PHL at that time. Today I am already here in CA, am planning to retake my NCLEX-RN in CA. But I have read in several forums that it is very difficult to apply. In my case, should I on reapply since I already took that or I should apply again? It greatly baffles me at the moment.

Any ideas or suggestions are welcomed.

[Tahoma 2,292]

This topic greatly interests me. I did my NCLEX-RN exam for CA last 2008 and i failed it. I was a licensed RN at PHL at that time. Today I am already here in CA, am planning to retake my NCLEX-RN in CA. But I have read in several forums that it is very difficult to apply. In my case, should I on reapply since I already took that or I should apply again? It greatly baffles me at the moment.

Any ideas or suggestions are welcomed.

Perhaps you could ask the California Board of Nursing.