Clinical Hours for Medical-Surgical Nursing

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

My wife has an ongoing application to the BON. Although she had all the required docs as a foreign graduate, the BON recently wrote a letter re: deficiency on number of clinical hours on Medical and Surgical Nursing.

Any idea or hard facts on how many hours you'd spent on these areas?

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I'm currently in school for LPN and I had 4 weeks of regular med/surg clincials then I have an additional 4 weeks with med/surg part 2 and peds.. so I guess it's considered 8 weeks total with 5.5 hrs a day

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

Thanks ChangeofPace. Is it the same no. of hours for RNs?

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Yeljet,can you tell us how much hours did your wife have in her application for us to compare? I'm waiting for Fl BON eligibility also i i had Care of adult-Medical nursing 126/648 (theory/practice) and Care of adult-Surgical Nursing-54/396 in my application.

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

sent you a pm re: number of hours.

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I just received a letter from the BON saying that I am also deficient in hours in medical and surgical nursing, 50 clinical hours each. I am also a foreighn educated urse. Anyone have an idea of how I can obtain those clinical hours?? I am trying to obtain a license in Florida.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, ER, Peds ER-CPEN.

are you all licensed in another state? Almost all of the foreign nurses at our hospital got their initial licenses from CA then got the FL license through reciprocity because of the difference in schooling requirements. Good luck.

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