Best job options while waiting for my Vermont license to be endorsed to NY or CA

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Can anyone give me advice on what are the best job options (nursing related) while waiting for my Vermont license to be endorsed to NY or CA. Applying for endorsement takes a lot of money and time especially for foreign graduate nurses like me (Philippines grad). CES and CVS processing would take about 6-8 mons. With so much time to wait, can I apply for a job in a healthcare facility maybe as a nursing assistant temporarily? Any suggestion would greatly be appreciated. BTW currently residing in Texas.

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A bit more information is needed.

Do you have a SS#? Do you have a current PH nursing license? You do know that NY and CA are on opposite ends of the State, which one do you plan to find a nursing job in with your RN license? Is your BSN from the PH prior to 2005?

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Thank you steppybay for taking time.

I will have my SS# very soon. With regard to PH nursing license, I do have it but I still need to renew it. I finished my BSN degree in the Philippines year 2007. I have heard of the concurrent issues in CA that has been such a burden to foreign nurses especially PH grad nurses. I did not think of it before until now. As of the moment I am not yet decided on which state to go. But considering family matters, I am hoping to be able to work in CA. My second option is NY.

Thanks again for the reply steppybay... will wait for your feedback.

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With CA enforcing the concurrency rules and only seeing a couple of PH nurses who were able to successfully endorse into CA were those that got their BSN's prior to 2005. Otherwise, there's been no one else that has been given the RN license in CA. Until you get your SS# and have a current PH nursing license, CA would just reject the application anyways and you will lose the application fees.

You do have the option to take the LVN exam in CA and try to enroll into a LVN-RN program in CA, but those are very competitive, plus many now require a year nursing experience before applying and still wait (some have been wait listed 2-3-4 years).

Or try to find a CA school that you can take the deficiencies in, good luck with that, as it's pretty difficult and so many have been looking for them for over a year plus now. CA doesn't require the other screening stuff so much, but they do want to see your clinical paperwork and cases and this is where the PH applicant gets shot down.

I thought VT required a SS# to be renewed, so maybe since you already have one and is current, you should be okay, but I would be careful if you are going to renew soon without a SS#, it could be denied, but you might be okay as you mentioned you're going to get it soon.

For the time being, CA is not going to be the place you can find work as an RN without a valid CA RN license. This will probably be the case for the next decade if not longer, unless one can meet the CA BRN requirements. I doubt the CA BRN will ever change their stance on the concurrency rules plus with the recent fraudulent documentations coming in from the Phils, along with the high unemployment of CA nurses, for both new grads and experienced, that will be the new reality.

Since you're already living in TX have you looked into becoming what CA has such as being a CNA? I know TX has the LPN's, but you need to look at those qualifications by looking at the TX BON website.

With regards to NY, they don't require a SS# to take the NCLEX-RN but NY employers (or any other legit medical facilities in any of the 50 states) will not hire a person without the valid SS# that allows one to work.

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Thank you, that was very informative. Somehow I get the picture... on what are my chances if ever I do pursue applying for endorsement in CA which is quite frustrating and seemingly hopeless. I am a 2007 graduate and if this is how CA BRN works then my hopes for practicing as a RN in CA are very slim. About taking a LVN-RN program or going through another nursing program, honestly I might not be able to take it at the moment since BSN is already my second course and right now I just want to start working or apply for work as soon as I have my SSN. I know it's futile to ask this but... what if you know someone inside the hospital who could recommend/refer you... would it make a difference?

I guess my best option is NY if I really want to practice as a RN. Will just have to comply all the requirements and hopefully my VT license will be endorsed in 4-6 months maybe or longer since I have to get CVS first... Regarding my VT license, I was able to renew it without SSN last year of March where they still didn't require it at that time.

I will try to look into TX BON regarding LPN's, just in case it might come in useful for me, thanks for mentioning it and for all the very useful info. :)

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Yes, for the time being, applying into CA is pretty much a waste of time and money, given that only a handful have been granted the license since the strict enforcement and even those that got it I suspect "played" with their schedules as we've seen some posters who knew of others "adjusting" them. I mean, they reported they were in the same classes, same graduation year, they were denied, but the people they knew got the ATT. Karma will catch up to them one day in one form or another.

When you say that you know of someone already inside a hospital and can recommend or refer you in, do you mean to get the RN license, to get an LVN job or ??

Actually, there have been a couple of PH students/nurses recently posted here that got hired in TX hospitals, I think one was a "new grad", but in the sense, he really wasn't by most US hospital hiring terms as he graduated beyond the one year limitation of applying, he did have some volunteer experiences in the Phils. Another person did also but it wasn't clear if she got the job in an area of TX that's hard to keep nurses as it was close to the border towns, where you don't want to work the night shift coming in or out.

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Hi steppybay!

I mean someone who could refer you to get a nursing job (LVN or nursing assistant for the meantime). And what about later.... can the hospital assist / back up you with getting your endorsement approved by the CA BRN?

I have no problem with my BSN degree since or school documents since I worked hard for it and earned it well. I also had more than 2 years of hospital experience as a staff nurse back in PH. It's just disheartening to know that because of unscrupulous deeds of some fake nurses we are in this situation right now.

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Hi steppybay!

I mean someone who could refer you to get a nursing job (LVN or nursing assistant for the meantime). And what about later.... can the hospital assist / back up you with getting your endorsement approved by the CA BRN?

I have no problem with my BSN degree since or school documents since I worked hard for it and earned it well. I also had more than 2 years of hospital experience as a staff nurse back in PH. It's just disheartening to know that because of unscrupulous deeds of some fake nurses we are in this situation right now.

Sure, if someone can get you a job as a referral, that's fine, it's done all the time. Like with so many employers, some places even paid the referral source a "finder's fee", it cuts down on the hiring processes as if the person who does the referring is a good employee, then they figure what better references could they ask for.

As far as someone anyone in any position be it high or low within the hospital system, to be able to "push forth" the endorsement application for approval, I highly doubt it, as then it would be fraud or misuse of their position or inappropriate influence as also I don't think any CA BRN employee wants to risk their job for just that. Not like how we have "backers" in the Phils, lol, a bunch of corrupted crooks.

In the State's, I'm sure there's civil penaltie$ as well with possible jail time for that employee and could be both who asked and the one that gave. They could probably suspend or ban forever anyone's license that was approved by this scheme.

It is the CA BRN responsibilities anyways, not from anyone else's position.

Yes, I'm sure that it was these greedy and selfish nurses that submitted the Recto documents that was part of the discovery that led to the strict concurrency enforcement upon further investigations.

Some kind of light bulb turned on when they noticed the deficiencies just among the regular normal honest applications and maybe partly needed to stem the flow of the falsified documentation and we all got mixed in with the bad apples.

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Hi dude, i also have vt license, what did you do then? Did you endorse your license in ny or tx? Hope you reply. Thanks.. Do you have fb or email?

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