Clinical hours short of NMC suggestion?

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First of all, I really hope Silverdragon reads this and gives me insight.

I have sent out my application as well as all of my paperwork to the NMC for my nursing license, except my training form. I was trained in the US at an accredited University and received my bachelor degree, which consisted of three full years of nursing training and one year of prerequisites.

I have been working for two years as a theatre nurse.

I passed my IELTS with 9's acrossed the board.

I have had my licensure body fill out the paper and mailed it.

The two references are filled out and mailed.

In other words, I fulfill all the requirements of licensure in the UK thus far.

My concern is: when the dean of my university took my transcripts, she needed to convert the credit hours to actual hours. The clinical hours that she calculated up was in the six hundreds. The NMC suggests approximately two thousand hours for clinical time.

How can there be such a difference?

Will this affect my ability to be licensed in the uk?

I am frustrated that with all of the work and money I've spent on this, that it may not come to fruition. In addition, I am moving to the UK next April regardless of the decision of the NMC, as I will be going on a spousal visa. But I am also aware that there is no more clinical training hours that I could have possibly taken to add up to their suggestion.

Am I missing something?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Heather

Hi guys, for those who have successfully registered with the NMC, what did your hour conversions end up being? Also, how long was your nursing program? My traditional BSN program was 2.5 years, any idea if that will suffice for NMC?

Any other tips you guys have for the application process? It seems like an incredibly tedious and expensive process so all suggestions or things that you guys learned along the way would be helpful!!!

Last question, I want to use Continental Travel Nurse, has anyone successfully worked with them in the last year and is now working overseas?

Hey Coffee Nurse, so you are working in England Right now for the Continental Travel Agency? or when you said you start work, did you mean you didnt pass the ONP and went to work elsewhere? thanks

Specializes in NICU.

Hi guys -- yes, I am working in the UK now through Continental. PM me if you want more details.

WOW, awesome. Ya im trying to PM you, crazy thing wont let me, it says i have to have 15 quality topics, i know i posted on topics a whole lot, im guesing i have to make 15 threads myself... any other way to reach you??

Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
WOW, awesome. Ya im trying to PM you, crazy thing wont let me, it says i have to have 15 quality topics, i know i posted on topics a whole lot, im guesing i have to make 15 threads myself... any other way to reach you??

You have 15 posts now so should be able to send a pm

Hi guys -- yes, I am working in the UK now through Continental. PM me if you want more details.

Coffee Nurse I'd love to hear about your experience with them. I haven't been chatty enough to send you a PM.

My next step is the ONP so I would really like to know your thoughts about it either good, bad or other. Are the 3 days on campus full days? Do you sit exams or papers on the middle and last day.

I have millions of questions.

Are you sharing a house or did you go out on your own?

How far are you living from your employment?

How do you find the 12hr shifts?

Where you given many options of which health service you could work in?

What has been the biggest surprise/shock?

Ah gee you better tell me what your having for dinner too. lol

Any tips and advice you could give would be greatly appreciated. :)

Specializes in NICU.

I'm happy to answer your questions, just would rather not do so in an open forum. 15 posts isn't too hard to manage, then we can chat.

Ok don't worry about it.

I don't understand your objection as I'm sure lots of others would like to know the answers and could be helped by your answers and experiences.

I would have thought anything that helps ease the nerves of others moving into a new enviroment, culture and lifestyle would have been a nice gesture. Obviously I'm mistaken.

Specializes in NICU.

A little snarky, m'dear! Coffee doesn't owe anything to anyone and this is a free forum, so we post out of our own good will...and there are plenty of excellent reasons why Coffee may not want to talk about stuff publicly...just like many of us don't post too personal stuff because we don't know who is reading this and who may know this is and things being misconstrued.

Personally I've been burned before and it's not out of the realm of reason for other people to not want this either.

Yes I guess I am snarky and offended about the comment. I'm just blown away by the announcement then the refusal to offer assistance.

I guess it's just I would share that information to help others, and I didn't think I was asking anything to personal or identifying

Specializes in NICU.

Coffee is offering assistance--just in a private area.

There are things when working with companies that can be sensitive of nature and it's not a great idea to blast these out on a public forum. We have to assume (and it is more than likely) that Continental is reading this forum. Coffee could get fired for saying something non-PR or other potential hospitals that Coffee applies to later sees that he complains (whinges? lol) online and use it as a basis to not hire him. Honestly, no one should ever assume that someone can't figure out who you are online.

I write all my posts with the secure knowledge that I wouldn't mind my manager reading any of them.

Maybe it's different in Australia, but people can and do get fired for very little...I know the UK has different labor laws than the US, but I wouldn't be inclined to trust my employee-ship to that...first thing during my hospital orientation as a new grad was that we should be wary of posting online where we worked, couldn't wear a hospital logo t-shirt to a bar (pub), etc etc. It's the litigious nature of society these days...

Specializes in NICU.

Not sure how "I'm happy to answer your questions" can possibly be misconstrued as a refusal to offer assistance, but okay. BabyRN has pretty much covered all my possible responses (except for the part where I'm not a he), so I guess I'll just say good luck with that.

If anyone else has any questions on the process and isn't offended by a fairly simple request to talk privately, my offer still stands.

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