New to AL....NCLEX question...

[NurseRachie28]

Hi everyone, I'm Rachel and I just moved to Huntsville, AL from Connecticut for my husband. I went to school and graduated from an RN program back in CT but unfortunately I never took the boards after graduation. I'm trying to find out if it's possible for someone who was educated in another state to take the NCLEX down here?

I wrote to the ABN asking this question but they only responded by saying "Can't tell you anything until the fees have been paid and transcripts have been sent" Obviously I know I have to send all that, but all I'm asking is if it's possible for me to test here (assuming everything else checks out) before I go shelling out $300 in fees only for them to say "sorry, you need to take it in CT and transfer your license" ya know what I mean?

Have any of you AL RNs gone to school somewhere else and tested here? Any information anyone has would be so greatly appreciated. It seems much harder to find a nursing job here so the sooner I can get started, the better!

Thanks!!

[sans33]

As far as i know, you can take your test and license from any state, regardless of place you studied.. I don know abt AL but I took License from another state staying in some other state. so i don't think that will be a problem for you.all you need is proper transcript and college response... good luck

[elkpark]

People go to school in one state and get licensed in another all the time -- I can't imagine how that could be a problem in AL. Check the AL BON website and look for the actual rules/regs (they are usually posted somewhere on each BON's website), and look for the section (of the rules) about licensure for people educated in other US states.

Best wishes!

[NurseRachie28]

Thanks, I think I'm going to submit the paperwork and see how it goes. I mean it sounds like there should be no problem with it, but I seem to have bad luck when it comes to things like this.

Thanks again! I needed a little reassurance!

[morte, LPN, LVN]

the issue would be if your education meets the requirments of the state, ie, is the school you graduated from recognized as an acceptable school of nursing?..good luck

[DayDreamin ER CRNP]

I'm at UAH and we have a student in your same shoes. She went to a school in a state that didn't require any psych coursework. She graduated from her school but never took the NCLEX either. She is now enrolled in a psych class and clinical with us but doesn't have to take any other classes.

You might want to call UAH and talk with Laura Mann - I'm pretty sure she would be the one anyway. She should be able to tell you where to go from here or point you in the right direction.

meredith

[elkpark]

I'm at UAH and we have a student in your same shoes. She went to a school in a state that didn't require any psych coursework. She graduated from her school but never took the NCLEX either. She is now enrolled in a psych class and clinical with us but doesn't have to take any other classes.

You might want to call UAH and talk with Laura Mann - I'm pretty sure she would be the one anyway. She should be able to tell you where to go from here or point you in the right direction.

meredith

Are you sure this student isn't maybe a foreign graduate? The basic expectations in the US are pretty much the same among all the states (and have been for quite a while), and I'm not aware of any US state that doesn't require psych nursing in school ... However, there are other English-speaking countries that educate nurses for specific areas (an entirely different educational model than the US uses), and those people would not have studied psych nursing unless they were studying to become a psych nurse.

[morte, LPN, LVN]

perhaps the student without the psych was an LPN student?

[DayDreamin ER CRNP]

Not a foreign student. I thought about it after I posted but this student had a psych theory class but no clinical hours.

This student is in my clinical class and I think she said that the university wouldn't let her just take the clinical so she had to take both the lecture class and the weekly clinical.