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Specializes in Global Health.

Background: I am a spouse of an active-duty service member currently residing overseas. I've been chasing nursing for nearly 20 years. I have a M.S. in Global Health I completed online and 18 years, multidisciplinary, international, health experience (clinical and nonclinical).

Q: Anyone aware of a hybrid, direct-entry, nursing program (LPN, ADN, BSN, Ph.D etc.) that offers online didactics in one block and clinicals in another i.e., complete didactics and then complete clinicals, not done simultaneously?

This is my problem. All nursing programs I've seen do didactics and clinicals simultaneously. I can't leave my husband for a year+. Yet, if I could complete the online didactics and then complete the skills training and clinical hours at a given site(s), this may be more doable. Thank you.

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Not that I know of. If you have noticed, many nurses who received their nursing education in the Philippines have run into trouble receiving CA nursing licenses due to non-reciprocal didactic/clinical. Seems to me that what you describe would make nursing school viable for many, many students.

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

This issue is concurrency- and most states' regulations have something to say about it. California gets mentioned more often for rejecting foreign applicants because of concurrency issues- but I suspect that is because they have a huge number of them.

There are good reasons (educationally) to have concurrency regulations.

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Specializes in Global Health.

I'm not a foreign applicant. I am a U.S. citizen residing overseas. I'm simply inquiring about any U.S. programs that may offer what I have outlined. Thanks.

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Nobody said you were a foreign applicant. We just wanted to point out that concurrency (I used the wrong term) is required in the US. That is why you won’t find programs doing what you are asking about.

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Specializes in Global Health.

@caliotter3 It's all good! Thanks for your reply! ?

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As a matter of principle, though, I think that separate clinical and didactic should be an option, if possible. My program did not go out of its way to "coordinate" the actual "concurrency" of the two. So, personally, from that standpoint, I don't see the point.

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