curious about emergency nurse skills

[meeky71]

Hi all !

This is my first thread. I am a nurse in the UK and have worked in the ER here for almost 17 years. I have recently passed the NCLEX and become licenced with the hope of eventually working in the US.

I am curious as to the skills I have gained in the UK I would be able to continue doing (if I ever find a sponsor that is!)

Some of the extended skills I have here are suturing, plastering, nurse practitioner for a wide range of minor injury's and illness's (assess, diagnose, treat and discharge independently) or would I need to complete other courses to do these in the US.

:)

[Sassy5d]

The board of nursing gives you a scope and then a facility fine tunes these. For instance, ohio board allows me to obtain samples for stool occult and run the test, but my facility policy is that this task is performed by md or mid level provider.

I would assume to practice as a nurse practitioner in the states, you have to have the education to match, which in most states I believe is at least a masters degree. If you are a np now, you would have specialized schooling/training/licensing for this right? So when you would apply, you would be applying for advance practice

[meeky71]

It is a little different here I guess, I finished my training with a diploma (was the p2000 nursing programme) back in 1996, then 2008 my employer funded me to do my BSc and as part of that I did the required courses for the nurse practitioner role within the ER. We call them Emergency nurse practitioners within our department, however, we also have advanced nurse practitioners( they are educated up to masters level) and they see patients as any junior doctor would in the ER. The NP skills (not the ANP) I have were 2 separate modules 1 of these I did at BSc level and the others at masters level, so only have some points towards a full masters.