Best UK specialty?

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Firstly, Hello. I am newly registered to the site although I've been reading up for the last couple of weeks. I still haven't been able to find information relevant to my situation.

Now that both of my children are older, I am ready not only to reenter the workforce, but also for a career change, and the career that I have chosen is Nursing. I am British, hubby is American, and my long-term goal is to work in the US in NICU (Waiting for a green card, SSN etc is not applicable to me as I already have those). We are currently stationed in Germany, but may be moving shortly to the UK. Rather than postpone studies until we eventually return to the US, I thought that I could use our time in the UK to go to school. What I didn't realise was that UK nursing is specialised.

In your opinion, is it easier to transfer to the US having completed adult, or child (or even mental health), or is it all irrelevant? Even though my end goal is to work NICU, if I have to study adult nursing in the UK in order for an easier transition, that is what I will do. I know that each US State has different requirements and that until I know where we will be settling down in the US I can't really plan for NCLEX, but I would like to make sure that I am headed in the right direction. I would hate to go through child nursing only to find out three years later that I should have taken the adult nursing degree.

Thanks in advance for all of your comments and suggestions.

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

For the US you will need both clinical and theory in mental health, Paeds, Obstetrics and general adult. You may find it hard to get a place in one of the universities so may have to have a chat with your local university and you can also discuss this with them.

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Hi,

Silverdragon is in my limited experience absolutely correct. I have just managed to get temporary registration in Canada but had to prove experience during my training in all areas including maternity, paeds, mental health, learning disibilities, and med/surg. Currently UK training does not allow for such a broad spectrum of experience and you may very well have to take further courses before you can get temp reg in the US. I advise you to be very careful when you pick a nursing course in the UK as having asked students I have recently come across on my ward, adult nurses now recieve very limited if any paed/maternity/mental health experience and this may well hold you back in the US. Good luck and welcome to nursing anyway if you are determined and do your research you will be fine I am sure. Regards BG.

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Congratulations on making the change to nursing. When do you plan on going to the UK as your husband is going to be stationed there? Do you know how long he will be stationed there before you both go to the US? Start doing all of your prerequisites and general education once you get to the UK. I would leave the sciences for last since those tend to expire. Make sure that you have plenty of transcripts before you leave (most schools require two sets when applying to nursing school) for the US. Hopefully you will be in the US when it's time to start nursing school. Good Luck :-)

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neonatal nursing has good demand ,is it? i'm registered nurse in india , now i wish to move uk, i want to know which nursing sopeciality has good scope in uk? can assist me?

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