$750 CA RN License??? No way!

Jedrnurse, BSN, RN · Feb 22, 2019

Low-lying fruit for revenue...

ruby_jane, BSN, RN · Feb 22, 2019

27 minutes ago, Jedrnurse said:
Low-lying fruit for revenue...

Sweet baby Moses. You're probably right.

KatieMI, BSN, MSN, RN · Feb 22, 2019

They can do it, so they do it. The other choice is to get in and finish community college program here in the States, which will be significantly more expensive.

Jory, MSN, APRN, CNM · Feb 22, 2019

The whole point is to discriminate against foreign nurses. Let's just call it what it is.

Jedrnurse, BSN, RN · Feb 22, 2019

9 minutes ago, Jory said:
The whole point is to discriminate against foreign nurses. Let's just call it what it is.

Is it discrimination (with all the ethnic/race-based negative connotations that has) or just job protection/protectionism?

Honestly, if we have new grads and experienced home-grown nurses here without jobs, why should we facilitate nurses coming into the field from other countries?

HomeBound · Feb 22, 2019

CALPERS is 1 trillion dollars in a hole for pensioners.

SF just instituted a new tax....another one....on top of the city tax if you work there and the highest income taxes in the country.

This has nothing to do with "discriminating against foreign nurses". They raised the licensure by endorsement for US TRAINED NURSES as well.

https://www.rn.ca.gov/pdfs/regulations/isor1417-2.pdf

So are you saying they're discriminating against us too?

No. It's and easy revenue generator. The fires in California have wreaked havoc, the rents and property taxes are at the upper limit for the poor schmucks living there and stuck--

do your homework on California before you say something as inflammatory and ignorant of the facts as this. Race and nationality baiting is not cool.

When I worked in CA as a traveler....the nurses who were licensed there are the ones who are willing to pay the licensing fee. That included Philipino, Chinese, Indian---all nationalities and ethnicities were included.

TriciaJ, RN · Feb 22, 2019

California is broke. They are now taxing (and charging fees for) everything that moves and everything that doesn't.

HomeBound · Feb 22, 2019

And yes. I agree Jed, it's protectionism. Each state is now implementing more and more stringent requirements for nurses that are trained and licensed outside of their state. They want to train and keep the nurses that they have. California has an educational requirement as well---denying US trained nurses based on a microbiology w/lab and other minor courses a license there.

Is this "discrimination" Jory?

How about the fact that other countries also have very, very, very stringent requirements for foreign (read: US included) nurses--and will only permit work VISAs with sponsorship, yearlong residency of the country without a job, retaking their equivalent of the NCLEX?

**NICU Guy, BSN, RN** · Feb 22, 2019

Application Fee for an Institution of Higher Education or a Private Post Secondary School of Nursing Approval. Current: $5,000 Proposed $40,000

allnurses Guide · Feb 23, 2019

Just another reason not to come to California. I an California born and bred and between having their highest taxes in the nation of income tax as well as being taxed for everything else you have to make a 6 figure income to survive.

BON has tripled the license fees in the years that I have been a nurse but that's just another state agency with it's hand in my pocket.

Hppy

Sour Lemon · Feb 23, 2019

6 hours ago, Kdm112990 said:
The CA BON has a huged increase in the application of RN LICENSE by endorsement of international Students. Before it was around $150 now it’s $750!!!! Any thoughts?

There will be no shortage of applicants. Almost all of the nurses I work with in California are foreign-born. I hope they use the fee money to hire more BON staff. Right now, there seems to be one 99 year old woman named Mildred working there ...and she seems to take frequent naps and forget where she's at and what she's supposed to be doing.