Are extra classes needed before working in California?

US has 4 years of HS. Philippines has 3. The lack of concurrent clinical and theory is the main reason for additional studies needed. There are dozens of threads in the nurse registration forum under world nursing.

Here's one: https://allnurses.com/nurse-registration/ca-brn-new-631735.html

https://allnurses.com/nurse-registration/california-nclex-rn-1028784.html

United States has 4 years of high school. I would think the extra classes that a nurse from the Philippines take would involve nursing theory and clinical practice rather than high school level education.

What state NCLEX are you taking? Why not just take the California NCLEX?

There is one NCLEX. Apply for a nursing license by examination in the state you wish to live and work. Anything else is a waste of time and money. B

Thanks very much~!

I mentioned 6 years of high school because I included jr. high. I heard that they don't have jr. high here in the Philippines or they're missing an extra 2 years from their high school, so they're finally adding k-12 just like in the USA.

The attorney from my review center said that a lot of requirements are needed if I were to go straight to California. He said that New Mexico and Saipan is faster with the processing and they don't ask for a lot of requirements. I applied in August and got approved in October and we had to pay $110 for the application and another $200 for Pearson Vue.

It only took me 2 months to get approved by Saipan whereas some of my classmates who went straight to California are still waiting to take the NCLEX. One of them mentioned that they had to take extra classes as well.

I didn't take it in Manila because there'd be a lot of requirements as well and it'd probably take forever. I didn't want to go straight to California and realize that I didn't bring a certain document that I needed and have to wait for it to be sent over from the Philippines. We heard some stories from my relatives about having to wait a long time because they went straight to California...

Or you could just avoid Cali all together and go to a better state to be a nurse. Cali is kind of the armpit of America. Very liberal there.

Even if you meet another states requirements you will still hit CA issues when registering with them. Moved to the Nurse Registration forum where many have hit the same issue when endorsing to CA and trained outside the US. If your cases are not concurrent then you will not be able to endorse and CA will require make up of certain courses

Thanks very much~!

It only took me 2 months to get approved by Saipan whereas some of my classmates who went straight to California are still waiting to take the NCLEX. One of them mentioned that they had to take extra classes as well.

I didn't take it in Manila because there'd be a lot of requirements as well and it'd probably take forever. I didn't want to go straight to California and realize that I didn't bring a certain document that I needed and have to wait for it to be sent over from the Philippines. We heard some stories from my relatives about having to wait a long time because they went straight to California...

There are no work-arounds for endorsing to California. They will still want documents from your school and have their own requirements that may be different from other states. I'm American and went to school in Texas and I still had to request transcripts from my school be sent to the California BON. They don't care that you have a license in another state, so don't waste your time and money unless you actually plan on working in the other state.

If your classmates had to take extra classes, it's very likely that you will have to as well.