I posted this in another forum, which I now realize was the wrong forum for this question ... so I am reposting it here.
My wife (age 32) was born in the Philippines (where she spent most of her life), but is now a US citizen. We are currently living in Florida. She has a BS degree in Computer Science from a school in the Philippines, but now wants to be an RN.
Do to the many people that are trying to get into the BSN program at Florida Southwestern State College here in Fort Myers, Florida, my wife was told by the school that it might be very difficult for her to get accepted into the 4-year RN program since there are so few seats available.
So, my wife is thinking about going back to the Philippines and enter into the RN program at De La Salle University in Bacolod.
Once she graduates with a BSN from the Philippines, she wants to return to Florida and take her NCLEX-RN and obviously try to find a job as a nurse.
1. Is this scenario sound like a good approach to becoming an RN here in the US / Florida?
I ask this because my wife has talked to some other Filipinos that went to nursing school in the Philippines that are now nurses here in the US ... but things might have changed since these Filipinos became nurses here in the US.
That's what we were trying to prevent as well. If she wants to be a US RN, we want her to have the best chance of passing the NCLEX and getting a job here. That's why I (and probably the rest) was saying to NOT go back to the PI to get her BSN there... at least not for initial licensure.
Since she has a CS degree, she'll have to take the prerequisites and then she has the option of an accelerated BSN (takes just over 1 year) or even do a traditional BSN here which would take about 2 years, about the same amount of time as an ADN program. When she's done, she'll have fewer licensing headaches than people coming to the US from the PI.
Turbota
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I'm thinking .... good advice