Can psychiatric nurses trained in Britain work in USA

[keriq]

I am an RN (Mental Health) having completed the project 2000 course in 1997. This course consisted of eighteen months generic nursing, including general medical, elderly, paeds etc and a further eighteen months in psychiatry. I have since worked in psychiatry and currently a band 6 (grade G/sister) working in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

I seem to have conflicting advice regarding working in states. According to the CGFNS website it would appear that only General trained nurses can get registered in states, however some advice online has suggested that I could get my first eigtheen months of education and practice assessed to see if I have enough theory and practice in general nursing.

can anyone clarify?

Iw ish to work in new england

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[nightmare, RN]

Moved to International forum for more informed input.

[suzanne4, RN]

Recommend that you submit your documents to CGFNS and have a credentials evaluation done that is called the CES and see what you will get credit for and what you will possibly need to take.

You most definitely will need a maternal health course, not sure what you did specifically with peds either. These are required to get licensed in both the US as well as Canada for an RN position.

The US also requires that the hours be completed in an approved school of nursing and both the clinical and theory hours are completed at the same time as well.

Hope that this helps. Would go for the CES before doing anything else.