I will be graduating in 1 more month from my LVN program. I plan to take my Nclex soon after I graduate and hopefully pass. Meanwhile, my goal to is start an LVN to RN program immediately. I just don't know how to deal with all the prereqs for the community college bridge programs, not to mention the huge waitlist for these programs. So, my friend told me about this foreign nursing program from a college in the phillipines. You do all your class work here, your job experience as an LVN counts as clinical hours, and for the last month of the program, you go to the Phillipines and finish your maternity clinicals and graduate there. THe program is 18 months long and you receive your BS in Nursing, but it is a foreign program, so what I was told is that you need to submit all your coursework to the Board of registered nursing in CA and it needs to be reviewed, which can take about 4 months. You would be considered a foreign grad. Anybody here about this? If it is will work, then I don't mind being a foreign nurse, I know it will look a bit strange since I am Indian and I was born in CA. I used to work for staffing at Kaiser and they were recruiting foreign nurses from the Phillipines because their courses were equivelant to the courses here in CA and the clinical hours were just as much as what is required for CA.
Also, I checked into the Indiana State University and the rep on the phone told me that it would take approx. 4 years to finish their program!! I didn't even ask about the money part. But this is the only on-line approved program in CA, I went on the CA BRN to find out.
Any thoughts about what I should do, I would like to get all this done ASAP, but not really sure which route to go. I have 4 kids and I am very busy, but my goal is to be an RN and take care of people, but I need to get this done by the end of 2009.
