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The NMC said that I needed to have 600 clinical hours. My two year program will have given me 588 hours..... The woman I spoke with didnt seem to know what to do with an ADN RN . I cant find anyplace that says they require a BSN, just a referral to their three year program ??
Your issue is not with licensure alone, but immigration that will be giving you the visa to work. You will not get it for a two year RN program. Immigration rulings are completely separate from the NMC.
You need to have at least the same amount of education, as well as time, that they have to do for their RN program, which is three years. The US only has a three year Diploma and not too many of them, so the next closest would be the BSN.
The Acclerated Diploma from the US will not meet their requirements either for immigration, as well as NMC. And their three year program, the new one, is not accepted in the US either for licensure until they make up the required courses that they need. There are only a couple of schools in that entire country that provide the required courses for working in the US currently.
Hi there. I am an American working as a nurse in England. I did an accelerated diploma program and was accepted by the NMC (UKCC back then). Visa wasn't a problem because I moved here with my British husband. I did my diploma in 2 years (In USA) but had semesters through the summers (no holidays) so it worked out to being one more year of study compared to an ADN program. Sounds weird I know. I don't know how many clinical hours we had but the school was well known for having more clinical hours than most nursing programs. UKCC had all my transcripts anyway.
It was back in 1999 that I came over so maybe things have changed. I had no problem at all and it only took a few months.
Suzanne, I have a diploma from the USA in nursing. It was an accelerated 3 year program and it was done in two years and I got accepted by the NMC(UKCC) no problem. That was back in 1999 though and I had my visa through my British spouse. I am qualified as an RGN.
I'm doing my degree here in the UK since we are staying over here. It's great, I get released from work for a study day once a week to do my modules and it cost me nothing. I'll probably do my masters here as well.
LOL check it out, I posted on this thread ages ago.
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Are associate degree RNs recognized/qualified to work in the UK ?