Confused about licensing process and preperation. HELP!

[shot_z]

Hi everyone, my name is Susanne and I am a german nurse living in NY.

I have read so many post about getting an RN license in NY and now I'm even more confused. I know for sure I need CGFNS CVS, English Test TOEFL and pass NCLEX Exam, right? But what do I apply for first?

I'm not even sure if my Degree is the equivalent to RN anymore, I was trained in Germany and we only have one Nurse Title and that is a 3 year program. Good thing I don't have to worry about the Visa Screen as I am already a Permanent Resident.

Another thing is I have been "out of the element" for 4 years to raise my daughter and I know I'm "rusty" not to mention american medical terminology, can anyone recommend books or anything I can use to catch up on and/or broaden my skills and knowledge, possibly something I can find in the library? My english is fluent but when it comes to practice tests I find that the questions I do understand I mostly get right but there's a lot of words I just don't know and therefore can't understand the question.

I'd also need recommendations on how to study. This may sound funny but I never learned how to really study, up to 6th grade everything I heard just got "absorbed" and I knew it. I changed schools on my teachers recommendation - we (Germany) have a different school system and the new school was far ahead of the previous school, so there was a huge gap in my education I was never able to fill - and from there on I went downhill.

Somehow I managed to get a degree in office management and at the age of 27 my nursing degree doing what I knew best, reading things over and over again and whatever stuck is what I knew, so basically memorizing as much as possible.

I should also add I was diagnosed with Adult ADD not to long ago here in the US and got both degrees undiagnosed and untreated so I'm sure if I can find the right resources and learn what I need to know I can do even better this time.

My most short term goal is going back to work, but I don't know what I could do without my nursing license that will put me close or in a Healthcare related position. I need a job with the highest salary possible so I can provide childcare for my 4 year old daughter as I don't have any Family here so I won't have access to free childcare and if I work only to pay for daycare it really won't get me anywhere because I won't be able to finance the nursing license.

Sorry my post got so long but I'm starting to get desparate, I've been trying to save up money for fees for the last 3 years and so far I haven't been able to. We live paycheck to paycheck and it seems to get worse than better, my husband now has to work overtime just so we can pay rent and I'm not getting any younger either.

Susanne

[suzanne4, RN]

NY will require the CVS from CGFNS. You will need to apply to NY for licensure, and complete only section one of the application. You will also need to complete the application for the CVS on the website of CGFNS.

That is all that you need to do until you get approval to sit for the NCLEX-RN exam.

There is a book called The Language of Medicine by Chabner that I think you will find quite useful. I has a work book included and will hep you with the vocabulary before you even begin preparing for the exam.

As far as finding a job there, that is something that you will need to do. Not sure what area that you are living in or anything else.

Hope that this gives you a start. :)

[shot_z]

NY will require the CVS from CGFNS. You will need to apply to NY for licensure, and complete only section one of the application. You will also need to complete the application for the CVS on the website of CGFNS.

That is all that you need to do until you get approval to sit for the NCLEX-RN exam.

OK, when you say "apply to NY for licensure, can you give me a specific, a link or address or name? Do I contact the Board of Nursing directly? How long do you think I will have from the time I apply with CGFNS until I have to sit for NCLEX?

There is a book called The Language of Medicine by Chabner that I think you will find quite useful. I has a work book included and will hep you with the vocabulary before you even begin preparing for the exam.

Thank you for the recommendation, I already checked my library's website and they have it available.

As far as finding a job there, that is something that you will need to do. Not sure what area that you are living in or anything else.

Hope that this gives you a start. :)

I shouldn't have any problems finding a job once I'm licensed, what I need right now is a job to finance the licensing procedure. $275 might notsound much to a working nurse, but for me it is pretty much impossible to come up with, at least it has been for the last 4 years. I had considered HHA, but it requires a 2 week class during which I'd need childcare for my daughter that I can not afford. I haven't been able to buy groceries or fuel for more than a week and have to wait a couple more days until payday so I cannot come up with any extra expenses without ending up not being able to pay the rent. And because I haven't been working for so long I was hoping to find something in the healthcare department so I could at least be in the field, even if not as a nurse. Unfortunately I don't know of the Job Titles that might be possible for me without my license.

There must be something I can do like bathing or feeding patients or just taking them to or from treatments and therapy.

Susanne

[suzanne4, RN]

You just go the the Board of Nursing's website for NY and download the application for RN licensure. You only need part one to be sent in.

CGFNS does the credentials verification and sends it into NY BON. Then NY handles the rest. Once you pay the fee to sit for the NCLREX exam, you only have ninety days......but otherwise you have about one year to sit for the exam, before your approval for the exam expires from NY.

If you can only send in one application at a time, I would do the one from CGFNS first, as that will take the longest.

[Savonarola]

When is the best time to apply for visa screen certificate? I`ve just sent my application to NY State Board of Nursing and to CGFNS for CVS am I´m waiting for their reply.

Thank you.

[suzanne4, RN]

Now............

Get it done with and out of the way. Sooner or later you are going to need to do it. :)

[Savonarola]

Okay, thank your, I will of course follow your advice. :)

[Savonarola]

Sorry, I have to ask you again. Isn`t it to early to apply now for visa screen because there`s a line in the form to fill in the date of the language test. I havn`t taken it yet.

[RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN]

Good luck to you. :)

[suzanne4, RN]

Sorry, I have to ask you again. Isn`t it to early to apply now for visa screen because there`s a line in the form to fill in the date of the language test. I havn`t taken it yet.

Just leave it blank. They still have to do all of the verificiations. The earlier that you get it submitted, the quicker that you will be able to get your Certificate in the end.