Re: Excelsior CA limitation
People ask this question all the time, and there is a lot of confusion about this. In
any state, the state BON is concerned with the nursing program
you initially completed to become an RN -- the knowledge you are tested for on the NCLEX. If you return to school and complete a BSN later, that doesn't change anything as far as the BON is concerned, because you don't really learn anything about basic nursing practice/skills in a BSN completion program, and it doesn't have anything to do with RN
licensure (you don't have to re-take the NCLEX, or take a
different NCLEX, after completing a BSN-completion program -- it doesn't affect your licensure at all).
So, if you get your initial RN education/preparation through EC, take the NCLEX and get licensed as an RN, and then complete a BSN at another school, you are still an EC graduate for licensure purposes, in any state in the country (this is not specific to CA -- it's just a bigger deal in CA for EC grads), and always will be. The BSN (or any other additional degrees) that you complete later doesn't change anything --
nothing will change that, and that's true for any state BON, not just CA.
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