California NCLEX-RN

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Hi everyone,

Im a US Citizen with a BSN degree from the Philippines. I know that there are issues when OR/DR cases are performed during the summer of school, so im a little worried in wasting my money applying for a license to be denied. Im trying to take the NCLEX-RN here in California and wanted to get some guidance from other Filipinos who have done the process already. I have not taken the local board exam in the Philippines so I don't know if that makes a difference as well. Thanks for any help you guys can provide.

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical Nursing.

When did you finish your BSN degree? Did you have it on the new curriculum? If you really want to stay here in California, then you apply to the BRN. If you're gonna be temporarily denied because of the concurrency issue, then there are solutions. You go to a school that offers the classes just like me who went to a school, and like others as well (hundreds of us, even thousands). Apply first and let your application get evaluated so that you will know where to start.

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You had to go back to school? I graduated 2009. How many classes had to be retaken and how long?

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical Nursing.

Yes I had to go back to school. 2 courses only: Med-Surg and OB. These 2 courses are commonly required to Philippine nursing grads by the BRN. A few were required Peds only; some just OB only. Depends on your evaluation. There were even some who were required to take the whole RN program. You have to know that this happened and still happens to hundreds of international grads not only concentrated to PH grads.

I took the courses for 2 semesters only. Because that school only accepts 1 course each semester for IENs.

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