Fresh BSN graduate: Could i get NCLEX-RN exam without taking local licensure exam?

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Hope someone could help me, here how it goes....

I'm a graduating student of BSN here in manila this MARCH2008. i'M wondering if i could go and take NCLEX-RN examination directly since my uncle and auntie are willing to support me with this and they are planning to get me there either in US or canada to stay and work there as a NUrse (once i passed the licensed) . They are planning to get me this JUNE 2008 UNFORTUNATELY, the board of nursing here is planning to changed the USUAL dates of local licensure exam. Instead of JUNE it will be on NOVEMBER2008. mE and my family don't want to wait for that long period of time before i could get a chance to have license and work as RN. imagine IF ever i passed that local licensure exam i will start working as a RN on 2009. We're in hurry because i'm the only breadwinner of the family and we're just grabbing the oppurtunities offered by me aunties/uncles from california and canada to help me get there and make my foundation. Hope somebody could help me find solution to my problem. Thanks in advance and godbless!:thankya:

i am planning to take nclex but a friend told me that if ever i pass the exam, it will just expire if ever i dont work in the US soon.. and there is still a regression so im torn and afraid that it will just go to waste.. and im confused if it is true or not.. does nclex have an expiration just like toefl or ielts?

i dont know if this makes sense. ill apreciate you reply. :)

thanks. :)

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i am planning to take nclex but a friend told me that if ever i pass the exam, it will just expire if ever i dont work in the US soon.. and there is still a regression so im torn and afraid that it will just go to waste.. and im confused if it is true or not.. does nclex have an expiration just like toefl or ielts?

i dont know if this makes sense. ill apreciate you reply. :)

thanks. :)

NCLEX as such doesn't have an expiration per say but will depend on which BON/BRN you apply to if the state issues a license then as long as you pay fees and meet their renewal criteria then you shouldn't have problems issues arise if the state doesn't issue a license without a SSN

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They do not require you to hold a license from the Philippines as long as you can provide them with valid reasons as to why you don't have one.

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They do not require you to hold a license from the Philippines as long as you can provide them with valid reasons as to why you don't have one.

For some states that is now not an option with exceptions not a citizen and can nt sit the exam and even then some have had to get official proof

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They do not require you to hold a license from the Philippines as long as you can provide them with valid reasons as to why you don't have one.

Sorry, but that is not true any longer. That one came to the US before they had the chance to write the exam is no longer considered valid in any state. One is not exempt from the NLE if they hold dual citizenship or are a green card holder since they are a citizen still of the Philippines. Only those that actually hold only US citizenship are exempt and they actually need to have documentation submitted to the BON directly from the PRC in this matter.

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Just to clear up many untruths that I am seeing here, I am going to attempt to clear them up:

1. CA requires the local license before they will grant permission to sit for the exam. If one is exempt from writing it, then they need written documentation from the PRC for same and that is submitted to the BRN.

2. Many other states are now requiring the local license as well. It is not just CA and each and every state can change their requirements whenever they wish. If they require it, then it is going to be most difficult to endorse to them unless you already have several years of work experience in the US.

3. Retrogression is not going to be ending anytime soon. Just do the math. All it means is that the demand for visas far exceeds the number that are available. For the Philippines alone, there are more than 500,000 unemployed RNs there now and another 80,000 plus writing the next NLE. The US has just under 10,000 green cards available per year for those from the Philippines, and that includes children and spouses. There are already more than 800,000 that are waiting thru the AOS process from the summer of 2007 for a green card and sure they are not all nurses, but their visas come from the same pool of visas. And that number does not even take into account those that are going thru Consular Processing. When you add all of it together, and with the fact that there are only 140,000 green cards under the EB-3 category per year, then one is looking at much longer than the five years and that would be for a chance at a green card.

4. Knowing that, and then not having the local license; where are you going to get work experience for the five years plus? You cannot get a job in your country as an RN, and every other country requires the local license before they will even consider you for license and visa to work there. Then how would you explain to an employer that you have no work experience for the five years? Even an American trained nurse and one that holds a US passport, if they are away from the field for even two years, they have issues with getting hired again.

5. With the downturn in the economy, any employer is going to have to prove that they cannot hire an American for the job first of all, as well as the fact that if they have to chose between someone educated in the US and someone that trained out of the US, the job is going to go to the American in almost every case unless the foreign trained nurse has significant experience in an area. Next is the fact that with so many wishing to work in the US, the number of applicants is going to exceed the number that actually receive the green card; most employers are going to have issues with documenting why they shelled out $10,000 to the foreign nurse and do not have any guarantees that they will ever be able to work in the US and that the facility will not be having lay-offs or a hiring freeze if and when the time came that the nurse could qualify for the visa.

6. Most other countries are requiring at least one to two years of actual work experience, we are also expecting the US to do the same.

Best of luck to all of you that are waiting but please use some common sense when deciding what you are going to be doing next. And remember that you are expected to meet the requirements for the state where you wish to work, they do not need to meet your requirements.

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