I need a career advice badly!

Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN · Jul 18, 2013

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moved to nurse registration for best result

loriangel14, RN · Jul 18, 2013

You have to meet the requirements of the CA BON in order to write the NCLEX.You need to do a search of the threads on here concerning the difficulties that foreign educated nurses have been experiencing in their quest for a California nursing license.

steppybay · Jul 18, 2013

Hi Everyone,
I am a BSN graduate 6 years ago from the Philippines and haven't apply for NCLEX. Now I moved here in California and don't know what to do. I just wanted to know where to start? Is it too late for me to pursue a Nursing career?
Thank you
Bettina

Kabayan, while it's never too late to start your nursing career, just know that your graduation year of 2007 puts you in the middle of the strict enforcement of the concurrency rules that has been rejecting just about everyone submitting their CA application for the first time (or even those trying to endorse from another state) that started around Nov. 2011, in which very very few PH applications have been approved by the CA BRN.

I highly suggest that you click on to EVERY subject title heading with anything that has the "CA" name on it, this is the best way for you and everyone else reading on why and how to get a better understanding of what's happening and why it is what it is today.

In your times of schooling (2003-2007), you were probably hearing of US hospitals hiring any PH nurse that stepped thru their doors, gave you a check for $10,000 just to sign up with them today, not tomorrow and you could actually work at two different hospitals and make over $100,000 plus a year.

Well, there's been a complete 180 degree turn of that in today's economy and life's reality. Today there's no demand for any PH nurses, hospital jobs are hiring those CA students or local US residents that did their clinicals in their hospitals or graduated out of state, zero sponsorships.

Read this on the US labor market for Phils nurses: https://allnurses.com/nurse-registration/us-labor-market-779683.html

In CA alone, there's a near 50% rate of unemployed new grads and getting worse. New grads means those that graduated within one year.

All you need to do is to read of those recent PH grads or nurses in this forum or the CA forum side of how many PH grads or nurses are now or have been working in the CA job over the past 1-2 years.