Best nursing program for potential move to USA

Silverdragon102, BSN · Apr 28, 2014

Most if not all universities follow the same curriculum so really you would have to speak to the university to see if they will let you do all areas. Experience will not count as clinical and theory must show on your transcripts

babyNP., APRN · Apr 29, 2014

I suppose you could try to get your adult nursing degree and then do a post-degree in peds and mental health, but that'd be an extra 2 years, I believe, and I think you'd have a hard time convincing them to let you do it. I don't know if the UK nursing program offers electives, but maybe you could get some hours that way.

I would check on the requirements to Canada and Australia too; I think a British trained nurse was recently denied an Australian license who posted on the forums.

Best of luck, keep us posted! It would be helpful for other members to know your journey and I'm very curious : ) I'm an American trained nurse who got her UK nursing license about a year ago (my husband is English) in case we move over there and we've also pondered Canada and Australia.

Silverdragon102, BSN · Apr 30, 2014

Canada has very similar requirements to the US so will be difficult however some provinces do do some form of assessment but what I have been reading is many have to do some courses which can take time and money

dolli · Jul 15, 2014

There are only a few universities in the country that do an undergraduate masters degree. It's 4 years long compared to the normal 3 year degree. The first 18 months are common foundation programme, then you select which branch you do. I am a paeds nurse, and I would have to do a full 3 years to change to adult nursing. Adult nurses, paeds nurses and midwives can work in NICU.

I had a friend who did a month in Australia as part of her paeds nursing training and she was told she couldn't do it in NICU as over there only midwives work in NICU. that was 6 years ago so things may have changed but its worth looking into if that's what you want to do.

Andora23 · Jul 16, 2014

Try Kings College. City University London Kingston University

dolli · Jul 16, 2014

For an undergraduate masters degree in nursing try Nottingham. I believe Southampton may offer it too.

skylark, BSN, RN · Jul 19, 2014

I doubt there are any degrees, even dual ones that cover all the requirements of the US RN.

The hours need to be made up of adult nursing, peds, psych and maternity.

So if you do an adult branch course, then a child branch, then the mental health and finally midwifery, that should do it, but its a long way round.

Maybe someone else has better info but that is my understanding.

I was UK trained, but did the 'old school' RGN in the 80s, which had enough hours in all specialties to meet the requirements for me to take NCLEX.

suzy12 · Aug 7, 2014

Try Scotland universities , i covered everything in my training , we had to as many of our specialities are mixed, due to lack of resources , the further north you go the more likely the specialities are mixed .

where am from are ITU take infants from 10 days old to old age , therefore we have to have the peads element and so is our A+E , (ER)

And each student will do a placement in A+E or ITU on top of placements were as follows

In the first year we do

Mother and child, thats split between maternity and children

Mental health and disability

Adult and medical, surgical , care of the elderly , acute and LTC , community nursing ,gynaecology we have a whole semester devoted to cancer! I had a 8 week placement in cancer and chemo and radio therapy as well as hospice care , i loved it. Its very good and am only qualified a couple of years. , so not old school . Ask at universities cos the training has to meet the need of the area its serving!