lacking education hours in pshychiatry and nutrition

[cryssa28]

Hello, I'm a foreign educated nurse. I evaluated my education with CGFNS-CES and FL BON decided that I'm lacking few theory hours of Pshychiatric nursing as well as coursework in nutrition.

Is there anybody who took some missing courses/hours online?

How it usually works? BON gives you some choices of Schools or I suppose to find it by myself?

I may need to go to a meeting with the FL- BON Education Committee on Dec 3rd(waiting for further notification) on another city(9h of driving), but calling FL BON I couldn't find anybody who could tell me something about the purpose of this meeting. Anybody knows anything about the reason of these meetings?

Thank you

[cryssa28]

Now we can see the reality as it is...lol...thank you ghillbert. Probably they did this to make it harder, or God knows why. My big frustration is that I have 7 years of nursing, did 2 nursing schools and because this nutrition and mental health hours missing( there was the school's secretary mistake who didn't know how to separate Psychiatric form Neuro;I had 72 h total and she separated 30 Psych and 42 nuro without any criteria) course I can't take Nclex now.

Btw, I'm US citizen, Florida resident since 2005.

Thank you guys for your answers. I'm still praying to don't have to deal with CGFNS again.

[Anaeli]

Hello Cryssa,

I am Anaeli and I wrote you on the romanian dv forum few years ago.. I have to do the same CES report like you did in 2009 and I was wondering if you studied at school( Carol Davila Bucharest) community nursing hours. I am asking as I graduated school in 1996 when these courses did not exist. I presumed it will be a huge problem. Also, did you have to do any other courses to a college?

First of all, I wanted to go in California because they do not need a CES reportand I noticed that BON wants to have separated all the clinical hours( hospital and skills). I decided to come in Arizona , Florida or North Carolina. What do you suggest? Much appreciated.